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Everyone Stephanie Hsu has ever slept with is dying, one by one. In the order she slept with them. And Zosia Mamet is here to help crack the case. (With cameos from John Early, playing himself, and Simu Liu, not playing himself.) [more inside]
posted by nobody on Jan 17, 2025 - 4 comments

[TRAILER] In Seattle during the era of grunge music, the lives and relationships of a group of young people, all living in the same apartment building, go through a period of flux. Among them are waitress and aspiring architect Janet (Bridget Fonda), who finds herself obsessed with bad boy musician Cliff (Matt Dillon) ; Linda (Kyra Sedgwick), an emotionally fragile environmentalist on the look-out for love; and Steve (Campbell Scott), a quintessential nice guy who studies traffic patterns. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 10, 2025 - 23 comments

[TRAILER] Shy San Francisco teenager Mia Thermopolis (Anne Hathaway) is thrown for a loop when, from out of the blue, she learns the astonishing news that she's a real-life princess! As the heir apparent to the crown of the small European principality of Genovia, Mia begins a comical journey toward the throne when her strict and formidable grandmother, Queen Clarisse Renaldi (Julie Andrews), shows up to give her "princess lessons." [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 16, 2024 - 6 comments

A fashionable sorority queen is dumped by her boyfriend and decides to follow him - to Harvard Law School.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero on Aug 17, 2023 - 15 comments

[TRAILER] A successful veterinarian and radio show host with low self-esteem (Janeane Garafalo) asks her model friend (Uma Thurman) to impersonate her when a handsome man (Ben Chaplin) wants to see her. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jul 18, 2023 - 17 comments

[TRAILER] Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak (George Peppard) moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 28, 2022 - 9 comments

C. D. Bales, the witty local fire chief, falls for astronomer Roxanne Kowalski. But Roxanne is more interested in the conventionally attractive Chris McConnel. C.D. believing Roxanne could never fall for him because of his appearance agrees to help Chris woo Roxanne. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Nov 2, 2022 - 10 comments

A divorced couple (Julia Roberts, George Clooney) teams up and travels to Bali to stop their daughter from making the same mistake they think they made 25 years ago. [more inside]
posted by praemunire on Oct 22, 2022 - 3 comments

Two men (Billy Eichner, Luke Macfarlane) with commitment problems attempt a relationship. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Oct 13, 2022 - 8 comments

Fed up with being single on holidays, two strangers agree to be each other's platonic plus-ones all year long, only to catch real feelings along the way. (Netflix) [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Oct 28, 2020 - 3 comments

A college student with psychic abilities takes in an amnesiac ghost as his roommate -- who ends up helping him hunt down spooky spirits. (Netflix US, tvN Korea) [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Dec 2, 2019 - 4 comments

In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand. [more inside]
posted by los pantalones del muerte on Sep 23, 2018 - 4 comments

Morris (Markees Christmas) is a 13-year-old African-American who moves to Heidelberg with his dad (Craig Robinson), who coaches professional soccer. The film explores Morris's romantic and coming-of-age misadventures. [Trailer #1 | full soundtrack listing] [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief on Aug 31, 2016 - 5 comments

Will Henry (Jemaine Clement) is a newly single graphic novelist balancing parenting his young twin daughters and a classroom full of students, while exploring and navigating the rich complexities of new love and letting go of the woman who left him. (Trailer)
posted by filthy light thief on Jul 3, 2016 - 6 comments

An acclaimed writer (Greg Kinnear), his ex-wife (Jennifer Connelly), and their teenage children (Lily Collins and Nat Wolff) come to terms with the complexities of love in all its forms over the course of one tumultuous year. (Trailer)
posted by filthy light thief on Jul 3, 2016 - 3 comments

Amy Schumer stars (and co-wrote the script) in this Apatow romantic comedy. [more inside]
posted by lunasol on Jul 18, 2015 - 17 comments