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Gorgeous control freak Mary Fiore is up to her highly glossed kisser in weddings. She’s the top Wedding Planner in San Francisco and is set to become a partner in her firm, if she can land their biggest account yet: The Donnelly Wedding. Tragically unlucky in love, things seem to be looking up for Mary when she meets Steve Edison, a charming Pediatrician who quite literally knocks her off her feet. But sparks really start to fly when Mary discovers that Steve is the groom in the Donnelly Wedding.
2001 -- Written by Michael Ellis and Pamela Falk. Directed by Adam Shankman.
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SOURCES:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wedding_Planner
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209475/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Raspberry_Awards
https://www.amc.com/talk/2013/01/story-notes-trivia-the-wedding-planner
https://www.selftanning.com/8-ways-to-remove-self-tanner-without-breaking-the-bank/
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-wedding-planner-2001
Rachel Chu, a beautiful and smart Chinese-American Professor of Economics, is in L-O-V-E with Nick Young, an expat from Singapore who uses her Netflix password and works out at the YMCA. When Nick invites her to travel with him to meet his family for the first time, she’s surprised to discover that they are among the richest in Singapore. Rachel is determined to win Nick’s family over, but will she ever really fit into his world?
A 2018 American romantic comedy film directed by Jon M. Chu, from a screenplay by Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim, based on the 2013 novel of the same title by Kevin Kwan. It follows a Chinese-American professor who travels to meet her boyfriend's family and is surprised to discover they are among the richest in Singapore.
Sources include:
All things CRA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Rich_Asians_(film)
The Tan Hua Flower:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphyllum_oxypetalum
That Mahjong Match:
https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/8/17/17723242/crazy-rich-asians-movie-mahjong
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Struggling boutique bookseller Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) hates Joe Fox (Tom Hanks), the owner of a corporate Foxbooks chain store that just moved in across the street. When they meet online, however, they begin an intense and anonymous Internet romance, oblivious of each other's true identity. Eventually Joe learns that the enchanting woman he's involved with is actually his business rival. He must now reconcile his real-life dislike for her with the cyber love he's come to feel.
1998 - written by Delia and Nora Ephron, directed by Nora Ephron
Sources include:
NYC: The Star of You’ve Got Mail
https://nypost.com/2018/12/14/how-youve-got-mail-made-nyc-a-rom-com-star/
The Voice of AOL
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/11/aol-youve-got-mail-voice-man-is-an-uber-driver.html
You’ve Got Mail Trivia
https://thestir.cafemom.com/movies/216730/youve-got-mail-movie-facts
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Annie (Kristen Wiig) is a single woman whose own life is a mess, but when she learns that her lifelong best friend, Lillian (Maya Rudolph), is engaged, she has no choice but to serve as the maid of honor. Though lovelorn and almost penniless, Annie winds her way through the strange and expensive rituals associated with her job as the bride's go-to gal. Determined to make things perfect, she gamely leads Lillian and the other bridesmaids down the wild road to the wedding.
2011, written by Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumalo, directed by Paul Feig
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An 80’s update on the classic fairy tale “Cinder-fucking-rella”, Pretty Woman is the story of Vivian (Julia Roberts) — a charming but down-on-her-luck sex worker, and Edward (Richard Gere) — a handsome but emotionally-stunted corporate raider, who meet and form an unlikely business partnership that takes Vivian from the Red-light district in Hollywood to the high-class playground of the super-rich: Beverly Hills. Over the course of one week, the pair negotiate and navigate their relationship and, in the end, they are both changed forever.
1990, written by JF Lawton, directed by Garry Marshall
Sources include:
Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yulia_Tymoshenko
The shopgirl who looks like former Ukraine President Yulia Tymoshenko
VanityFair:
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/03/pretty-woman-original-ending
Gradesaver:
https://www.gradesaver.com/pretty-woman/study-guide/does-pretty-woman-misrepresent-sex-work
NY Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/23/movies/review-film-high-rolling-boy-meets-streetwalking-girl.html
And the hooker is played by Julia Roberts, who is so enchantingly beautiful, so funny, so natural and such an absolute delight that it is hard to hold anything against the movie. (Janet Maslin, NYT 1990)
Savings Org:
https://www.saving.org/inflation/inflation.php?amount=3,000&year=1980
$3000 is roughly $10k today
AV Club:
https://film.avclub.com/in-1990-pretty-woman-changed-romantic-comedies-forever-1832809447
This modern rom com follows Peter Bretter (Jason Segal), who is a musician writing a Dracula Muppet musical (yes, you read that right) and is going through an unexpected breakup with his TV star girlfriend Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell). To heal his broken heart, he books a flight to Hawaii to escape, only to find that his recent ex and her new rockstar boyfriend Aldous Snow (Russell Brand) are staying at the same hotel. Hilarity and humiliation ensue.
2008, written by Jason Segal and produced by Judd Apatow
Sources include:
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgetting_Sarah_Marshall
Entertainment Weekly https://ew.com/movies/2019/02/06/forgetting-sarah-marshall-nude-scene/
Peoplehttps://people.com/movies/forgetting-sarah-marshall-cast-where-are-they-now/
"Crash” Davis (Kevin Costner), is a veteran minor league catcher brought in to teach rookie pitcher Ebby Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh (Tim Robbins) about the game in preparation for reaching the major leagues. Baseball aficionado Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon) chooses Nuke as her season-long romantic project but finds herself increasingly attracted to Crash.
1988, written and directed by Ron Shelton
Sources include:
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_Durham
Why Crash Davis is the Best Name Ever, and Other Tales from the Making of 'Bull Durham'
The Raleigh News Observer, by Alex Lowentin https://www.newsobserver.com/entertainment/article213375704.html
Worshipping at the Church of Baseball
Sports Illustrated, by Chris Nashawaty
https://vault.si.com/vault/2012/07/09/worshipping-at-the-church-of-baseball
Sports Illustrated, The 50 Greatest Sports Movies of All Time
https://vault.si.com/vault/2003/08/04/the-50-greatest-sports-movies-of-all-time
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Canoodle is a rom com re-watch podcast from Colleen Hindsley, Lucy Osborne, Barbara Sennrich, and Liv Behre—and here’s your first taste!
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