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"From culture writer and GQ contributor Scott Meslow, an in-depth celebration of the romantic comedy's modern golden era and its role in our culture, tracking the genre from its heyday in the 80s and the 90s, its slow decline in the 2000s, and its explosive reemergence in the age of streaming, featuring exclusive interviews with the directors, writers, and stars of the iconic films that defined the genre"--
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Publisher
Ulysses Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Slip on your favorite Christmas sweater, cozy up to a crackling fire, sip some spiced eggnog, and prepare to experience the ultimate holiday love story. But instead of watching it on some cheesy cable channel, open this book and put yourself in the director's chair. First, decide your heroine's problem. Was she just fired from her big city business job? Avoiding going home for Christmas? Or did she just realize the man who proposed to her maybe isn't...
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St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"While her friends wish for meet cutes worthy of their favorite rom-coms, Julia is ready to give up on love. Swiping right has replaced getting swept off your feet and good old-fashioned romance has become, well, old-fashioned. A writer for a popular website, love becomes the last thing on her mind when impending layoffs threaten her job. As Julia searches for the ultimate pitch to impress her boss, she stumbles upon a resort offering guests a chance...
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Waiting for Tom Hanks volume 1
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"Romantic-comedy-obsessed Annie Cassidy dreams of being the next Nora Ephron. She spends her days writing internet content, rewatching Sleepless in Seattle, and waiting for her movie-perfect meet cute. If she could just find her own Tom Hanks--a man who's sweet, sensitive, and possibly owns a houseboat--her problems would disappear and her life would be perfect. But Tom Hanks is nowhere in sight. When a movie starts filming in her neighborhood and...
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
日本語
Description
When Risa Koizumi, the tallest girl in class, is cast with Atsushi Otani, the shortest boy in class, as the unwilling stars of a bizarre romantic comedy duo, Risa develops feelings towards Otani as their friendship develops, leaving her to see if she can be honest with herself and get over her lovely complex.
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Midwest Tape
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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(500) Days of Summer: A young greeting card writer is hopelessly, helplessly searching for the girl of his dreams, and his new co-worker, Summer Finn, may just be 'the one.' But the 500 days of their offbeat relationship reveal (in no particular order) that the road to happiness can be unpredictable, uncontrollable, and unbelievably funny!
Blue Valentine: The uncompromising portrait of Dean and Cindy, a young married couple who have grown apart,...
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Midwest Tape
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Enough: An estranged wife is tormented by her husband even as she attempts to disappear. She moves from town to town, cuts her hair, and changes her appearance, but her evil husband still finds her. Finally, she takes matters into her own hands and learns to defend herself. PG13 114 min. (2002)
Hustlers: A crew of savvy former strip club employees band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients. The film is inspired by the article published...
8) Café society
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Set in the 1930s, a young Bronx native moves to Hollywood where he falls in love with the secretary of his powerful uncle, an agent to the stars. After returning to New York he is swept up in the vibrant world of high society nightclub life.
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Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Hassan is a culinary ingenue with the gastronomic equivalent of perfect pitch. Displaced from their native India, his family settles in a quaint village in the south of France. They plan to open an Indian restaurant, that is, until Madame Mallory, the owner of a classical French restaurant, gets wind of it. Her icy protests against the new Indian restaurant so near her own escalate to all out war; until Hassan's cooking talent and love for Mme. Mallory's...
12) The big wedding
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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To the amusement of their adult children and friends, long divorced couple Don and Ellie Griffin are once again forced to play the happy couple for the sake of their adopted son's wedding after his ultra conservative biological mother unexpectedly decides to fly halfway across the world to attend. With all of the wedding guests looking on, the Griffins are hilariously forced to confront their past, present and future, and hopefully avoid killing each...
13) A faithful man
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
Eight years after she left him for his best friend, journalist Abel gets back together with his recently widowed old flame Marianne. It seems to be a beautiful new beginning, but soon the hapless Abel finds himself embroiled in all sorts of drama: the come-ons of a wily Jeune femme, the machinations of Marianne's morbid young son, and some unsavory questions about what exactly happened to his girlfriend's first husband.
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Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
New York City architect Natalie works hard to get noticed at her job but is more likely to be asked to deliver coffee and bagels than to design the city's next skyscraper. And if things weren't bad enough, Natalie, a lifelong cynic when it comes to love, has an encounter with a mugger that renders her unconscious, waking to discover that her life has suddenly become her worst nightmare, a romantic comedy, and she is the leading lady.
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A look at love through the eyes of five interconnected couples experiencing the thrills and surprises of having a baby, and ultimately coming to understand the universal truth that no matter what you plan for, life doesn't always deliver what's expected.
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"New York Times opinion writer and best-selling author Lindy West was once the in-house movie critic for Seattle's alternative newsweekly The Stranger, where she covered film with brutal honesty and giddy irreverence. In Shit, Actually, Lindy returns to those roots, reexamining beloved and iconic movies from the past 40 years with an eye toward the big questions of our time: Is Twilight the horniest movie in history? Why do the zebras in The Lion...
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Midwest Tape
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure: Bill and Ted spent so much time forming their rock band that they're flunking history. A guardian angel from the future, Rufus, comes to them with a time traveling phone booth to take them in to the past to learn from history's most influential people. The journey turns out to be a blast, but will they learn enough to pass their class?
Destination Wedding: The story of two miserable and unpleasant wedding guests,...
19) Warm bodies
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
After a zombie epidemic, R (a zombie) rescues Julie (a human survivor) from a zombie attack. The two form a special relationship in their struggle for survival, R becomes increasingly more human, setting off a chain of events that begins to transform the other zombies and maybe even the whole lifeless world.
20) About last night
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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A modern re-imagining of the classic romantic comedy. Bernie and Joan are two fiery flirters who are passionate about everything from hookups to breakups. When he sets up his best friend, Danny, with her roommate, Debbie, the sparks soon fly as they try to navigate the relationship minefields from the bar to the bedroom.
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