Category: Romance

The Thomas Crown Affair

Product DescriptionStudio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 04/06/2010 Run time: 113 minutes Rating: RAmazon.comFor the Hollywood remake rule, which dictates that an update of an older film be inferior to the original in almost every aspect, The Thomas Crown Affair stands as a glorious exception. The original 1968 film, starring a dapper Steve McQueen …

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Amazon.comHong Kong wuxia films, or martial arts fantasies, traditionally squeeze poor acting, slapstick humor, and silly story lines between elaborate fight scenes in which characters can literally fly. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon has no shortage of breathtaking battles, but it also has the dramatic soul of a Greek tragedy and the sweep of an epic [...]

You’ve Got Mail

DescriptionNeigborhood bookstore rivals unwittingly become e-mail pen pals in this charming remake of The Shop Around the CornerAmazon.com essential videoBy now, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan have amassed such a fund of goodwill with moviegoers that any new onscreen pairing brings nearly reflexive smiles. In You’ve Got Mail, the quintessential boy and girl next …

Moulin Rouge

Amazon.comA dazzling and yet frequently maddening bid to bring the movie musical kicking and screaming into the 21st century, Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge bears no relation to the many previous films set in the famous Parisian nightclub. This may appear to be Paris in the 1890s, with can-can dancers, bohemian denizens like Toulouse-Lautrec (John Leguizamo), [...]

The Greatest

Product DescriptionThree months after Allen and Grace Brewer’s son died in a car accident, Rose shows up on their doorstep, pregnant with his child. At first her arrival divides their already troubled marriage, but as they accept their grief, Rose and her baby may just bring them back together. Starring Pierce Brosnan, Susan Sarandon and [...]

The Quiet Man

Product DescriptionWhen an American prize-fighter kills a man in the ring, he returns to the Irish village where he was born to find peace and there he meets and falls in love with the sister of the village bully.Genre: Feature Film-ComedyRating: NRRelease Date: 22-OCT-2002Media Type: DVDAmazon.comBlarney and bliss, mixed in equal proportions. John Wayne plays [...]

Date Night

Amazon.comTina Fey and Steve Carell are two of the most charming performers in entertainment today. Their goofy attractiveness makes them a perfect couple in Date Night: an unremarkable husband and wife from New Jersey, they get mistaken for crooks in Manhattan, sending them on a wild night replete with snooty wait staff, crooked cops, glitter-specked [...]

She’s Out of My League

Product DescriptionAN AVERAGE JOE MEETS THE PERFECT WOMAN, BUT HIS LACK OF CONFIDENCE AND THE INFLUENCE OF HIS FRIENDS AND FAMILY BEGIN TO PICK AWAY AT THE RELATIONSHIP.Amazon.comA gorgeous girl takes an interest in an ordinary guy in She’s Out of My League, only to find their relationship questioned, criticized, and outright scoffed at by [...]

When In Rome

Product DescriptionAn ambitious young New Yorker (Kristen Bell), disillusioned with romance, takes a whirlwind trip to Rome where she defiantly plucks magic coins from a fountain of love, inexplicably igniting the passion of those who threw them in: a sausage magnate (Danny DeVito), a street magician (John Heder), an adoring painter (Will Arnet) and a [...]

Dear John

Product DescriptionA ROMANTIC DRAMA ABOUT A SOLDIER WHO FALLS FOR A CONSERVATIVE COLLEGE STUDENT WHILE HE’S HOME ON LEAVE.Amazon.comDear John brings together a totally believable and charming cast–the lovely Amanda Seyfried and Channing Tatum–with a tried-and-true romantic plot that will have a new generation of movie fans and lovers reaching for their hankies. Director Lasse [...]