CUDDLE UP WITH THESE MOVIES THIS VALENTINE
Feb 08, 2007
IF YOU would prefer to stay in-doors and cuddle with you partner this Valentine’s, Roger Mugisha compiles a list of love movies that you can watch.
IF YOU would prefer to stay in-doors and cuddle with you partner this Valentine’s, Roger Mugisha compiles a list of love movies that you can watch.
Sleepless in Seattle is a light romantic comedy inspired by the 1957 film An Affair to Remember. Tom Hanks stars as a widower and single father, Sam. When his son, Jonah (Ross Malinger), calls into a talk show radio programme looking for a new mother, Sam ends up getting on the phone and laments about his lost love. Thousands of miles away, Annie (Meg Ryan) hears the program and immediately falls in love with Sam. even though she is engaged. Believing they are meant to be together, Annie sets out for Seattle to meet Sam, who, meanwhile, contends with an onslaught of letters from available women, equally touched by his phone call.
The Notebook comes across as an ordinary romantic melodrama. The film unfolds in two time frames featuring the same characters. Allie (Gena Rowlands) is suffering from dementia. To stir her memories, Noah (James Garner) reads from a notebook that recounts their tumultuous, improbable romance. They met as teenagers in pre-world war 2 America. For Noah, it was love at first sight, but it took him a while to convince Allie because of their differing social classes. The disapproval of Allie’s mother (Joan Allen) led to their break-up. But fate brought them together after the war, before Allie married her soldier beau (James Marsden).
Message in a bottle stars Kevin Costner as the broodingly handsome rustic Garret Blake and Robin Wright Penn (Theresa Osborne) as the city sophisticate. Osborne is a vacationing news researcher who finds a love letter in a sealed bottle that belonged to a small ship builder living in North Carolina. She gets her boss to print the letter (written to Catherine) in his column. Catherine is Garret’s deceased wife and he is still entirely devoted to her memory. Nonetheless, Theresa spends an idyllic holiday exploring the bucolic joys of Garret’s domain. Watching Garret and Osborne getting emotionally attached makes viewing pleasure for lovers this Valentine’s season.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a modern day Cinderella story mingled with culture clashes. The three primary rules of life for a young Greek woman are to marry a Greek boy, make Greek babies and feed everyone for the rest of their life. So, when Toula (Nia Vardalos) becomes involved with a non-Greek, Ian Miller (John Corbett), her father is upset. At 30, Toula has pretty much given up hopes of romance and marriage because of her frumpy appearance. She embarks on a course of self-improvement by taking computer classes and ends up working at her aunt’s travel agency, where she meets Ian.
Soon, they are dating and get engaged, to her father’s dismay. The result is an appealing blend of laughter, romance and ethnic flavour.
Shakespeare in Love is the perfect romantic comedy. The film’s startling intelligence and wonderful performances by the cast make it soar above any romantic comedy in recent memory. Viola Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow) plays a woman determined to perform on the male-dominated stage of late 16th century theatre. She provides the inspiration that Joseph Fiennes, (Bard), a playwright, needs, to pen “Romeo and Ethel: The Pirate’s Daughter.†Viola dresses as a man and auditions for the role of Romeo, a part that she wins. With Viola’s inspiration, Will rewrites the play as “Romeo and Julietâ€.
The romance that ensues between Will and Viola projects enough chemistry and unlike most romantic movies, the ending is not a foregone conclusion.
Sleepless in Seattle is a light romantic comedy inspired by the 1957 film An Affair to Remember. Tom Hanks stars as a widower and single father, Sam. When his son, Jonah (Ross Malinger), calls into a talk show radio programme looking for a new mother, Sam ends up getting on the phone and laments about his lost love. Thousands of miles away, Annie (Meg Ryan) hears the program and immediately falls in love with Sam. even though she is engaged. Believing they are meant to be together, Annie sets out for Seattle to meet Sam, who, meanwhile, contends with an onslaught of letters from available women, equally touched by his phone call.
The Notebook comes across as an ordinary romantic melodrama. The film unfolds in two time frames featuring the same characters. Allie (Gena Rowlands) is suffering from dementia. To stir her memories, Noah (James Garner) reads from a notebook that recounts their tumultuous, improbable romance. They met as teenagers in pre-world war 2 America. For Noah, it was love at first sight, but it took him a while to convince Allie because of their differing social classes. The disapproval of Allie’s mother (Joan Allen) led to their break-up. But fate brought them together after the war, before Allie married her soldier beau (James Marsden).
Message in a bottle stars Kevin Costner as the broodingly handsome rustic Garret Blake and Robin Wright Penn (Theresa Osborne) as the city sophisticate. Osborne is a vacationing news researcher who finds a love letter in a sealed bottle that belonged to a small ship builder living in North Carolina. She gets her boss to print the letter (written to Catherine) in his column. Catherine is Garret’s deceased wife and he is still entirely devoted to her memory. Nonetheless, Theresa spends an idyllic holiday exploring the bucolic joys of Garret’s domain. Watching Garret and Osborne getting emotionally attached makes viewing pleasure for lovers this Valentine’s season.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a modern day Cinderella story mingled with culture clashes. The three primary rules of life for a young Greek woman are to marry a Greek boy, make Greek babies and feed everyone for the rest of their life. So, when Toula (Nia Vardalos) becomes involved with a non-Greek, Ian Miller (John Corbett), her father is upset. At 30, Toula has pretty much given up hopes of romance and marriage because of her frumpy appearance. She embarks on a course of self-improvement by taking computer classes and ends up working at her aunt’s travel agency, where she meets Ian.
Soon, they are dating and get engaged, to her father’s dismay. The result is an appealing blend of laughter, romance and ethnic flavour.
Shakespeare in Love is the perfect romantic comedy. The film’s startling intelligence and wonderful performances by the cast make it soar above any romantic comedy in recent memory. Viola Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow) plays a woman determined to perform on the male-dominated stage of late 16th century theatre. She provides the inspiration that Joseph Fiennes, (Bard), a playwright, needs, to pen “Romeo and Ethel: The Pirate’s Daughter.†Viola dresses as a man and auditions for the role of Romeo, a part that she wins. With Viola’s inspiration, Will rewrites the play as “Romeo and Julietâ€.
The romance that ensues between Will and Viola projects enough chemistry and unlike most romantic movies, the ending is not a foregone conclusion.