Romantic Comedy Movies Are Back in a Big Way

// June 14th, 2010 // Entertainment, General, Movies

Back in the 40s and 50s, romantic comedy movies were huge hits. Stars like Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Doris Day, Jimmy Stewart, Rock Hudson, and many others began their careers in romantic comedy movies. Many spent their entire careers doing these kinds of fun films that combined love stories with situational comedy and witty banter.
Today’s top romantic comedy movies are crowd pleasers with hilarious storylines and wacky performances by some of the industry’s top actors and actresses. Movies like Bringing Up Baby and The Philadelphia Story became shining examples of the genre and helped to bring in lots of new audiences around the world to theatres. One of the best romantic comedy movies of the last ten years is The 40 Year Old Virgin starring sad sack comic actor Steve Carrell and the mature but still sexy Catherine Keener.
In 2003 audiences were treated to one of the funniest romantic comedy movies of all time with Somethings Gotta Give starring a feisty Jack Nicholson and the colder, but sincere Diane Keaton in a pairing made in movie heaven. Nicholson plays an old playboy who is dating Keatonís twenty-something daughter. 2007 brought us a deep dish goodie of a movie called Waitress starring the lovely Keri Russell as an abused wife who works in a pie restaurant somewhere in the Deep South. Russell is endearing and you fall in love with her as she battles her drunken, abusive husband and ends up having a torrid affair with the new, dashing town doctor.
One of my personal favorite romantic comedy movies is the hilarious Forgetting Sarah Marshall which came out in 2008 and now ranks as one of the top money makers of the past ten years.
Romantic comedy movies will continue to tickle our fancies as long as men and women continue to date, love, and get married.

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