When Tom Baker (Steve Martin) gets a job offer to coach football at Northwestern University in Chicago, he and his wife, Mary, move to the big city, which is a big change for them and their 12 children, who range from preschool-age twins Kyle and Nigel all the way up to 22-year-old Anne who has…
Category: Romantic Comedies
Freaky Friday (2003)
Dr. Tess Coleman (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her fifteen-year-old daughter, Anna (Lindsay Lohan), are not getting along. They don’t see eye-to-eye on clothes, hair, music, and certainly not on each other’s taste in men. One Thursday evening, their disagreements reach a fever pitch—Anna is incensed that her mother doesn’t support her musical aspirations and Tess,…
Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
Taglines: They can’t keep their hands off each others assets. A very successful divorce attorney based out of Los Angeles, Miles, gets involved with serial divorcee Marylin. They end up getting married and soon Marylin shows her true self by trying to gain financial independence by divorcing him. So begins an enormous battle between the…
Love Actually (2003)
Taglines: The ultimate romantic comedy. Against the backdrop of aged has-been rock star Billy Mack’s Christmas themed comeback cover of “Love Is All Around” which he knows is crap and makes no bones about it much to his manager Joe’s chagrin as he promotes the record, several interrelated stories about romantic love and the obstacles…
Love Don’t Cost a Thing (2003)
Taglines: Love don’t cost a thing but it pays to be yourself. This movie is a modern day update of the classic 1987 teen movie “Can’t Buy Me Love,” Alvin Johnson is a high-school senior, a likable brilliant outcast who regrets the years of intellectual endeavors that kept him and his un-hip friends from learning…
Something’s Gotta Give (2003)
Academy Award winners Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton and Frances McDormand star with Keanu Reeves and Amanda Peet in a sophisticated romantic comedy Something’s Gotta Give, from writer / director Nancy Meyers (What Women Want, The Parent Trap), which proves that in matters of the heart, you can expect the unexpected. Harry Sanborn (Jack Nicholson) is…