I love watching romantic comedies every day of the year, but they’re especially fun on Valentine’s Day, so here’s a list of some you might not have seen:
1. THE DECOY BRIDE–this gem stars Kelly McDonald and David Tennant and is about a
celebrity couple trying to get married without the press finding out. They think they’ve found the
perfect location in one of the islands in the Hebrides, but things go awry. I adored all the jokes about writers and their books (and about book clubs) and the comments on the ridiculous things people try
to pass off as tourist attractions.
2. WIMBLEDON–there aren’t many movies about tennis tournaments (with good reason, I suspect), but this one, starring Kirsten Dunst and Paul Bettany (with Jon Favreau as the worst agent EVER) is great. It’s also a movie about the pressure on athletes–when you’re winning, when you’re losing, and when you think you’ve lost it–and it’s got great supporting characters. This is something the Brits are brilliant at, and Americans usually aren’t. “Peter Peter Colt’s” family is particularly maddening and funny. Plus it’s got Brighton, the London Eye, and rabbits.
3. HOW TO STEAL A MILLION–Audrey Hepburn is the daughter of a forger of famous paintings who’s about to be caught (he loaned a statue his grandfather forged to a museum that’s obviously supposed to be the Louvre, and didn’t realize they have tests for determining the authenticity of sculptures) and Peter O’Toole is the burglar she hires to help her steal her own statue back. When I saw it way back in the sixties, I thought it was the most romantic movie I’d ever seen, and I still feel that way. It’s a crime that Peter O’Toole got stuck doing stuff like Lawrence of Arabia and didn’t do more romantic comedies. Plus, the clothes (by Givenchy) are worth the price of admission all by themselves. And it’s set in Paris!
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5. IN AND OUT–Kevin Kline is a small-town high-school English teacher who’s getting married in two weeks–to Joan Cusack–and who is very good at his job. So much so that one of his ex-students, who’s now a movie star, mentions him in his Oscar acceptance speech, finishing, “And he’s gay!” and Kevin finds his engagement and his life upended as the media, including Tom Selleck as a truly self-absorbed TV reporter., descends on the little town. The movie was made by Frank Oz, and it’s full of wonderful bits and wry comments about sexuality and our attitudes toward it. Matt Dillon is amazing as the movie star, and his model girlfriend (who doesn’t know how to work an old-fashioned phone) is even better, and Kevin Kline’s students are terrific.
So get some popcorn and some chocolate and have a great Valentine’s Day!
Connie Willis