Favorite Romantic Comedies

Here are some of my favorite romantic comedies (in alphabetical order).

ALWAYS BE MY MAYBE

I highly recommend this film. The dialogue is smart and witty. I loved the relationships between all the characters.

See my post about how the wrong guy/girl in ALWAYS BE MY MAYBE propels the plot.

BABY BOOM

I love Diane Keaton. And Baby Boom has many empowering themes. The set-up is well done, showing how her relationship is lacking with her current boyfriend, the competitive atmosphere at the office, and how she has clipped this newspaper clipping for this farmhouse in Maine. There’s the back-stabbing male colleague, her attempt at diapering the baby, her buying the falling-down farmhouse and building up her baby food business. And there is sizzling chemistry between Diane Keaton and Sam Shepard.

BRIDGET JONES‘S DIARY

Based on Pride and Prejudice. Love, love, love! I love her character and her friends, the chemistry with Hugh Grant and with Colin Firth sizzles, and the the triangle is brilliantly done. Brilliant dialogue. Love everything about this movie. It’s a classic!

CLUELESS

Based on Jane Austen’s Emma. Memorable dialogue! Some of my favorite movie lines ever.

“Whenever a boy comes, you should always have something cooking.”

“Ugh. As if.”

And so many more!

CRASH LANDING ON YOU

I loved this! It was so addictive. And I really enjoyed the romance, comedy and suspense.

DESK SET

See my post about how the wrong guy leads to the set piece.

I love Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. One of my favorite scenes is their first lunch where she shows how intelligent she is and he appreciates it.

This screenplay was written by the parents of Nora Ephron.

HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS

Brilliant and funny premise. She has to write a women’s magazine article about how to lose a guy in 10 days and he has 10 days to persuade her to fall in love with him so he can win the right to pitch an advertising campaign about diamonds.

So many laugh-out-loud scenes.

Smoking hot chemistry. Love this movie!

MAN UP

Snappy dialogue, great premise, great comedic set scenes. He’s supposed to meet a blind date under the clock who is reading a certain book. He mistakes her for his blind date and she goes along with that.

MIRACLE ON 34th STREET

I like to watch this every Christmas (the 1947 version). I like the career woman plot and the Santa Claus on trial plot. That trial scene is one of my favorite movie scenes.

OVERBOARD

Great chemistry, great premise, great comedy, great comedic set scenes, Goldie Hawn. Need I say more?

I also wrote a blog post on the new Overboard.

THE PROPOSAL

I just re-watched this recently and the dialogue is just so good. And there are so many good comedy scenes.

WHEN HARRY MET SALLY

This movie was written by Nora Ephron. With Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal. Great dialogue and one of my favorite films exploring male/female friendship and dating.

Let’s Talk: Favorite Romcoms?

What are some of your favorite romantic comedies? And why are those your favorites? Even as I write this, I can think of more favorites. It’s so hard to choose!