Top 20 Chick Flicks
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Chick Flicks: The Perfect Friday Night Movie
Chick flicks sometimes get a bad wrap and are looked down at because they are not highbrow cinema, but chick flicks or romantic comedies can be some of the most enjoying and entertaining movies. They are a great way to kick back with a glass of wine by yourself or with a group of girlfriends and get lost in someone else's world. The next time you are looking for a great chick flick to watch, you can check out these great romantic comedies that make up 20 of the best chick flicks of all time.
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1. The Notebook
Great Tearjerker!
The Notebook is the ultimate tearjerker and favorite movie of those who believe in the power of true love. Behind every great love is a great story. Two teenagers from opposite sides of the tracks fall in love during when they spend the Summer of 1936 together. At the end of the Summer, they are tragically forced apart. When they reunite 7 years later, their passionate romance is rekindled, forcing one of them to choose between true love and class order.
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2. Dirty Dancing
Every Girl's Favorite Movie
Nearly every girl's favorite movie, Dirty Dancing tells the familiar story set in the summer of 1963 at a Catskill's resort. Innocent 17-year-old Baby is vacationing with her parents. One evening, she is drawn to the staff quarters as she "carries a watermelon." There she meets Johnny, the hotel dance instructor, who is as experienced as Baby is naive. Baby soon becomes Johnny's pupil in dance and love and soon everyone learns "nobody puts Baby in a corner."![Dirty Dancing (Limited Keepsake Edition) [Blu-ray]](http://squidutils.com/us/bB00382S9N2.jpg)
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3. When Harry Met Sally
Can Men & Women Just Be Friends?
When Harry Met Sally asks the classic question, can women and men ever be friends? According to Harry, the answer is no. Yet after her and Sally travel from Chicago to New York, she wants to be just that, friends. Through a tumultuous eleven years they remain best friends, yet at one point they cannot deny their feelings any longer. Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan shine in When Harry Met Sally complete with the famous scene in which Ryan's character demonstrates how much she is "enjoying" her sandwich at Katz Delicatessen.
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4. Notting Hill
Starring Two Chick Flick Icons
In Notting Hill, Hugh Grant plays William Thacker, owner of a travel bookshop. One day, world renowned movie star Anna Scott, played by romantic comedy queen Julia Roberts, walks into his bookstore and into his heart. The question becomes whether William and Anna reconcile his decidedly commonplace bookseller existence and her lifestyle as a jet-setting, paparazzi-stalked celebrity? Set to a magnificent soundtrack, Notting Hill is everything you could ever want in a romantic comedy.
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5. The Break-Up
The Chick Flick About Breaking Up
Who says chick flicks have to be about falling in love, why can't they be about falling out of love? The Break-Up gives a true to life depiction of just that. After two years together, Gary and Brooke's relationship seems to have taken a comical wrong turn on the way to happily ever after. Now the break-up is on, the lines have been drawn, and their honest feelings for each other are coming out. The Break-Up demonstrates the real life anguish of trying to move on and get over your ex when you still love them but it just doesn't work. However, the pain and hilarity is maximized as these two exes remain living together as they try to sell their Condo.
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6. The Wedding Date
Fun Rom-Com
The Wedding Date centers around Kat Ellis, who returns to her parents' London home for her younger sister's wedding. Afraid of confronting her ex-fiancé, who dumped her two years prior, Kat hires a male escort to pose as her new boyfriend, but true to romantic comedy cliches: love, miscommunication/misunderstandings, and happily ever after ensues.
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7. The Proposal
Sandra Bullock's Return to Romantic Comedies
Margaret is a workaholic, tyrannical book editor whose suddenly faces deportation back to Canada. In order to preserve her job and stay in New York, Margaret forces her assistant, Andrew, into a fake an engagement.. Andrew in turn blackmails Margaret for a promotion. When Margaret is forced to spend the weekend in Alaska with Andrew and his family in order to convince Immigration their engagement is legitimate, Margaret realizes that their plan may not be so simple as she begins to fall not only for Andrew, but his family as well. Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds have phenomenal chemistry in The Proposal but Betty White steals the show!
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8. Pretty Woman
The Movie that Made Julia Roberts a Star!
Pretty Woman is the ultimate "chick flick" of all time and the movie that made Julia Roberts a star! In the film, Roberts plays Vivian, a "hooker with a heart of gold." Edward (played by Richard Gere) is a rich, ruthless businessman who specializes in taking over companies and selling them off piece by piece. While in Los Angeles, Edward hires Vivian to be his escort for the week in order to avoid emotional attachments. He wants someone that is "all business." However, all that "emotional stuff" gets in the way as he finds himself charmed by Vivian and slowly, but surely falling in love.
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9. The Object of My Affection
A Non-traditional Romantic Comedy
In The Object of My Affection, George and Nina seem like the perfect couple--they share a cozy Brooklyn apartment, a devotion to ballroom dancing, and they love each other deeply. But of course, there's a catch--George is gay. When Nina announces she's pregnant, things get especially complicated. Vince, Nina's overbearing boyfriend and the baby's father, wants marriage, but Nina wants independence and to raise her child with George. But is George ready to trade in his own love life to become a surrogate dad and husband?
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10. The Wedding Planner
A Chick Flick About Choosing Between Love & Career
In The Wedding Planner, Mary's life is her career. Planning other people's weddings takes all of her time and leaves no room for a love life of her own. One day, a handsome young doctor saves Mary from a collision with a runaway dumpster and soon he is all she can think about. Unfortunately, as fate would have it, the handsome doctor turns out to be the fiancé of Mary's biggest client. Their wedding will likely guarantee partnership at Mary's firm. Mary finds herself torn between her career and the potential love of her life.
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11. My Best Friend's Wedding
One of Julia Roberts' Many Wonderful Romantic Comedies
In My Best Friend's Wedding, Julia Roberts plays Julianne, a prominent Chicago restaurant critic. While in college, she makes a pact with Michael, her best friend and former lover, that if neither are married by 28, they would marry each other. Days before Julianne's 28th birthday, she receives an unexpected voicemail from Michael--however, it's not what Julianne expects. When she returns Michael's call, Julianne is shocked to learn that Michael is engaged and getting married in 3 days! Julianne is suddenly woken up and realizes that Michael may be the love of her life. Julianne sets out to sabotage the wedding and convince Michael he should marry her instead.
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12. Two Weeks Notice
A Great Chick Flick About Finding Love With Your Complete Opposite & Perfect Complement
In Two Weeks Notice, Sandra Bullock plays Lucy Kelson, a neurotic lawyer, environmentalist, and landmark-preservation activist. Lucy takes a job with George Wade(played by Hugh Grant), a jet-setting playboy and billionaire developer with plans to destroy a local community center. By working for George, Lucy plans to prevent him from destroying the community center. After taking the job, Lucy ends up managing every detail of George's life and finds herself more of a "nanny" than a lawyer. After a final straw of being torn away from her best friend's wedding to pick out a tie for George, Lucy gives him her "two weeks notice." Can Lucy truly walk away from George and he from her?
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13. 27 Dresses
Always a Bridesmaid Chick Flick
Jane, the perpetual bridesmaid has become an expert is assisting her friends plan their weddings and along the way has donned 27 Dresses. She is happy doing so until she is forced to plan the wedding of her younger sister to the man of her dreams, her boss. While doing so, she is followed and mocked by a cynical matrimony reported hired to cover the wedding. Will Jane find love or continue to always be a bridesmaid and never a bride?
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14. P.S. I Love You
A Chick Flick About Everlasting Love
P.S. I Love You is a movie for those who believe true love lasts beyond this physical plane. Hilary Swank plays Holly, a woman happily married to an adorable Irishman, Gerry (played by Gerard Butler). When Gerry suddenly dies from a brain tumor, Holly spirals into a deep depression and withdraws from friends and family. On the day of Holly's 30th birthday, Holly is delivered a cake with a message from Gerry. Thereafter, Holly receives several gifts and letters from Gerry that he arranged to have delivered to her after his death. Each message fills Holly with encouragement and pushes her forward to new adventures. Holly's mother worries Gerry's letters are keeping Holly tied to the past, but they actually push her into her future.
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15. Music & Lyrics
Great Movie About Falling in Love
First you're hot, then you're not... Alex Fletcher (Hugh Grant) is a has-been 80's pop sensation who is asked to write a song from the hottest new pop sensation. Unfortunately, Alex can handle the music but he can't master the lyrics--enter Sophie Fisher (played by Drew Barrymore). Sophie is the fill in for Alex's plant lady who just happens to have a green thumb for lyrics. Together, they produce the Music & Lyrics and go after songwriting success. In the process, they discover that while the perfect love song, you might just discover the perfect love.
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16. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Kate Hudson Chick Flick
Andie Anderson (Kate Hudson) is the "How to..." columnist for trendy Composure Magazine. She agrees to write a first-hand account about the ways women drive men out of your life in an article entitled How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. At the same time, eligible ad agency bachelor Benjamin Barry (Matthew McConaughey) accepts a bet that he can get any woman to fall in love with him...in 10 days. When Andie & Benjamin meet and begin to date a series of comic deceptions and ploys ensue for the following 10 days and soon both learn that when it comes to true love...your heart cannot tell a lie.
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17. Intolerable Cruelty
A Witty Chick Flick with Twists & Turns
Intolerable Cruelty tells the story of the relationship between a savvy Los Angeles divorce lawyer and the gold digging ex-wife of one of his clients. The plot is simple: Lawyer supreme Miles Massey, played by the devilishly sexy George Clooney, skillfully outmaneuvers gold-digger Marylin Rexroth, played by equally sexy Catherine Zeta-Jones, when she divorces her wealthy husband--and she sets out to get revenge. A series of manipulations and scams unfurl as these two fall in love or do they?
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18. Picture Perfect
Falling In Love While Faking It
Kate (Jennifer Aniston) is struggling in the advertising business. She believes she is talented, but can't seem to move forward. When a promotion comes up, Kate's boss passes over Kate because she is "not stable enough." Using a picture taken from a recent wedding, Kate's co-worker creates a story about Kate's engagement to Nick. Everything is Picture Perfect until Nick saves a little girl from a fire and ends up all over the news and on the cover of several newspapers. Kate's boss wants to meet the "hero" and Kate asks Nick to visit her and pretend to be her fiance.
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19. Definitely, Maybe
Chick Flick About 3 Separate Love Stories
In Definitely, Maybe, 10 year old Maya grills her divorcing dad for information on her conception after her first sex ed class. He tells her the story but changes the names of the women who were in his life at the time to keep her guessing which is her mom. Was it Emily, his college girlfriend when he came to New York from Wisconsin for Clinton's '92 campaign; April who is edgy, a little cynical, and misses her father; or Summer, a writer attracted to older, established men? In demanding the story, Maya's motivation is clear, to get her dad to fall in love with her mom again.
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20. Laws of Attraction
Two Divorce Lawyers Find Love
Laws of Attraction tells the story of two high powered divorce attorneys whose in-court conflicts give rise to sparks of an entirely different nature. While in Ireland in order to determine which of their clients in a high-profile rock-star divorce deserves their swank castle, the attorneys "accidentally" get married. When back in New York, they agree to keep up the facade of the marriage, so that a quickie divorce does not make them the laughingstocks of the legal community. In faking their marriage, they may just have found their perfect fit.
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One of the highest grossing films of all time and by far the highest grossing chick flick of all time, Titanic, takes the real story of the sinking of the Titanic and includes a touching love story. At this point, nearly everyone knows the story and has seen the film, but this is a must have movie for your DVD collection.
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Grumpus Apr 2, 2013 @ 11:27 am | deleteMissed my favorite Chick Flick: Practical Magic. -
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slitze Mar 14, 2013 @ 2:10 pm | deleteUm, Dirty Dancing is way above the rest!!! -
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