Overboard (1987)
Real-life couple Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn star in this loopy comedy, their third (and, thus far, final) time, in sort of a variation on Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew”, with an amnesia...
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A League of Their Own (1992)
As time goes on, my fondness for A League of Their Own grows, and only a waning voice in the back of my mind keeps me from giving it the vaunted 5-star rating. Obviously, not everyone...
Georgia Rule (2007)
Lily (Huffman, The Spanish Prisoner) drives her delinquent, habitually-lying 17-year-old daughter, Rachel (Lohan, Chapter 27), to Idaho to stay with her strict grandmother, Georgia (Fonda, Monster-in-Law), in the hopes that she will learn to behave. Rachel doesn’t even...
Lost in America (1985)
David Howard (Albert Brooks) and his wife Linda (Julie Hagerty) are stuck in a rut. Their jobs aren’t panning out, they bought a new house that neither of them seems enthused about, and their...
Raising Helen (2004)
Helen Harris (Hudson) is a 20-something up-and-comer in the fashion industry, putting it all on the line for her career while still able to partake of the Manhattan party atmosphere she knows inside and...
Runaway Bride (1999)
A New York columnist (Gere, The Jackal) hears a scoop about a woman (Roberts, Notting Hill) who ditched several husbands on the altar of her wedding. He writes about her without properly researching the stories and ends up...
Pretty Woman (1990)
A wealthy businessman (Gere, Final Analysis) hires a prostitute (Roberts, I Love Trouble) walking the streets of LA after his girlfriend leaves him. Seeking more of a no-strings companion than a sexual encounter, he decides to hire her...