Moonstruck (1987) RT 92% / Audience 80%
DVD release: Jun 1998
No sooner does Italian-American widow Loretta accept a marriage proposal from her doltish boyfriend, Johnny, than she finds herself falling for his younger brother, Ronny. She ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Norman Jewison
CAST: Cher • Nicolas Cage • Vincent Gardenia • Olympia Dukakis
The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014) RT 68% / Audience 81%
DVD release: Dec 2014
A story centered around an Indian family who moves to France and opens a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French restaurant. (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Lasse Hallström
CAST: Helen Mirren • Manish Dayal • Om Puri • Charlotte Lebon
The Magic of Belle Isle (2012) RT 30% / Audience 62%
DVD release: Sep 2012
In an effort to tap into his original talent, a wheelchair-bound author moves to a rural town, where he befriends a single mother and her three kids, who help reignite his ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama
DIRECTION: Rob Reiner
CAST: Morgan Freeman • Virginia Madsen • Madeline Carroll • Emma Fuhrmann
Made in America (1993) RT 29% / Audience 30%
DVD release: Oct 1998
A young black woman discovers that her father was a sperm donor, and if that weren't bad enough, he's white. (more)
GENRES: Comedy
DIRECTION: Richard Benjamin
CAST: Whoopi Goldberg • Ted Danson • Nia Long • Will Smith
Begin Again (2013) RT 83% / Audience 81%
DVD release: Oct 2014
A long lost music producer finds a singer-songwriter right about the moment he has given up all hope on life. (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Music • Romance
DIRECTION: John Carney
CAST: Adam Levine • Keira Knightley • Mark Ruffalo • Hailee Steinfeld
Defendor (2009) RT 68% / Audience 59%
DVD release: Apr 2010
A crooked cop, a mob boss and the young girl they abuse are the denizens of a city's criminal underworld. It's a world that ordinary Arthur Poppington doesn't understand and ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Comedy • Crime • Drama
DIRECTION: Peter Stebbings
CAST: Woody Harrelson • Kat Dennings • Elias Koteas • Sandra Oh
Sabrina (1954) RT 91% / Audience 89%
DVD release: Apr 2001
Linus and David Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work -- busily running the family corporate empire, he has no time for a wife and family. ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Billy Wilder
CAST: Humphrey Bogart • Audrey Hepburn • William Holden • Walter Hampden
Porco Rosso (1992)
Porco Rosso, known in Japan as Crimson Pig (Kurenai no Buta) is the sixth animated film by Hayao Miyazaki and released in 1992. You're introduced to an Italian World War I ... (more)
GENRES: Adventure • Animation • Comedy
DIRECTION: Hayao Miyazaki
CAST: Shûichirô Moriyama • Tokiko Katô • Sanshi Katsura • Tsunehiko Kamijô
The Princess and the Frog (2009)
A waitress, desperate to fulfill her dreams as a restaurant owner, is set on a journey to turn a frog prince back into a human being, but she has to face the same problem ... (more)
GENRES: Animation • Family • Music • Romance
DIRECTION: Ron Clements • John Musker
CAST: Anika Noni Rose • Bruno Campos • Keith David • Michael-Leon Wooley
Pleasantville (1998) RT 84% / Audience 79%
DVD release: Mar 1999
Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Fantasy
DIRECTION: Gary Ross
CAST: Tobey Maguire • Reese Witherspoon • William H. Macy • Joan Allen
A Christmas Story (1983) RT 89% / Audience 89%
DVD release: Sep 1999
The comic mishaps and adventures of a young boy named Ralph, trying to convince his parents, teachers, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is the perfect Christmas gift ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Family
DIRECTION: Bob Clark
CAST: Melinda Dillon • Darren McGavin • Peter Billingsley • Ian Petrella
A Life Less Ordinary (1997)
A couple of angels, O'Reilly and Jackson, are sent to Earth to make sure that their next supervised love-connection succeeds. They follow Celine, a spoiled rich girl who has ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Fantasy • Romance
DIRECTION: Danny Boyle
CAST: Ewan McGregor • Cameron Diaz • Holly Hunter • Delroy Lindo
My Fair Lady (1964) RT 96% / Audience 90%
DVD release: Aug 2003
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society. (more)
GENRES: Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: George Cukor
CAST: Audrey Hepburn • Rex Harrison • Stanley Holloway • Wilfrid Hyde-White
You've Got Mail (1998) RT 69% / Audience 73%
DVD release: May 1999
Book superstore magnate, Joe Fox and independent book shop owner, Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet – both blissfully unaware that he's putting her ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Romance
DIRECTION: Nora Ephron
CAST: Tom Hanks • Meg Ryan • Katie Sagona • Greg Kinnear
Ever After (1998)
A unique 16th century woman, Danielle possesses a love of books, and can easily quote from Sir Thomas More’s UTOPIA. An intriguing mix of tomboyish athleticism and physical ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Andy Tennant
CAST: Drew Barrymore • Dougray Scott • Anjelica Huston • Melanie Lynskey
The Spectacular Now (2013) RT 93% / Audience 76%
DVD release: Jan 2014
Sutter, a popular party animal unexpectedly meets the introverted Aimee after waking up on a stranger's lawn. As Sutter deals with the problems in his life and Aimee plans for ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: James Ponsoldt
CAST: Miles Teller • Shailene Woodley • Brie Larson • Masam Holden
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) RT 69% / Audience 85%
DVD release: Oct 2002
A retelling of the classic Dickens tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, miser extraordinaire. He is held accountable for his dastardly ways during night-time visitations by the Ghosts of ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Family • Fantasy • Music
DIRECTION: Brian Henson
CAST: Michael Caine • Don Austen • Steve Whitmire • Meredith Braun
Under the Tuscan Sun (2003) RT 62% / Audience 79%
DVD release: Feb 2004
After a rough divoce, Frances, a 35 year old book editor from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany at the urgings of her friends. On a whim she buys Bramasole, a run down ... (more)
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Chocolat (2000)
A fable of emotional liberation and chocolate. A mother and daughter move to a small French town where they open a chocolate shop. The town, religious and morally strict, is ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Lasse Hallström
CAST: Juliette Binoche • Alfred Molina • Johnny Depp • Carrie-Anne Moss
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) RT 59% / Audience 58%
DVD release: Nov 2005
After five (or six) years of vanilla-wedded bliss, ordinary suburbanites John and Jane Smith are stuck in a huge rut. Unbeknownst to each other, they are both coolly lethal, ... (more)