Romance Movies 2002 List

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December 13 • December 20 • November 27 • October 11 • September 27 • August 2 • August 16 • August 23 • May 10 • January 25

Released Friday, December 13th

63%

4 / 5

(7)

Maid in Manhattan

A street savvy, independent single mother who lives in the Bronx with her son, and works as a maid in a first class Manhattan hotel dreams of a better life but has learned to depend upon her own wits to get her there. When a handsome, debonair heir to an American political dynasty is in New York and staying in the hotel where Marisa works, the two meet by a twist of fate and mistaken identity. She soon finds herself gaining insight into the life of a man she might otherwise have judged from a distance. When her true identity is revealed, however, the truth sets in as to the disparity in their lives.

Ralph Fiennes, Jennifer Lopez, Bob Hoskins, Wayne Wang, Natasha Richardson, Di Quon

PG-13

63% WILL SEE

4 / 5

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Released Friday, December 20th

80%

5 / 5

(3)

Two Weeks Notice

In the romantic comedy "Two Weeks Notice", Sandra Bullock plays a brilliant but detail-obsessed attorney opposite Hugh Grant as her charming, irresponsible and fabulously wealthy boss in a film that explores whether or not it's ever too late to say "I Love You."

Alicia Witt, Hugh Grant, Marc Lawrence, Mark Feuerstein, Robert Klein

PG-13

80% WILL SEE

5 / 5

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Released Wednesday, November 27th

86%

2.7 / 5

(3)

Solaris

Superstar George Clooney turns in a stellar performance in this "brilliant sci-fi movie" ("New York Daily News") from Academy Award winners Steven Soderbergh (2000 - Best Director, "Traffic") and JamesCameron (1997 - Best Picture, "Titanic"). Aboard a lonely space station orbiting a mysterious planet, terrified crew members are experiencing a host of strange phenomena, including eerie visitors who seem all too human. And when psychologist Chris Kelvin (Clooney) arrives to investigate, he confronts a power beyond imagining that could hold the key to mankind's deepest dreams…or darkest nightmares.

George Clooney, James Cameron, Viola Davis, Steven Soderbergh, Natascha McElhone, Jeremy Davies, Ulrich Tukur, Rae Sanchini

PG-13

86% WILL SEE

2.7 / 5

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Released Friday, October 11th

50%

3 / 5

(1)

Brown Sugar

Dre and Sidney can attribute their friendship and the launch of their careers to a single childhood moment - the day they discovered hip-hop on a New York street corner. Now some 15 years later, she is a revered music critic who leaves her L.A. Times music review gig to edit New York hip-hop magazine XXL, while he is a successful, though unfulfilled New York music executive. Dre and Sidney should be perfect for each other, except that Dre's about to get married and Sidney begins to be wooed by a handsome basketball player. Still, as they lay down the tracks toward their futures, hip-hop isn't the only thing that keeps them coming back to that moment on the corner...

Sanaa Lathan, Queen Latifah, Rick Famuyiwa, Michael Elliot, Peter Heller, Magic Johnson, Taye Diggs, Nicole Ari Parker

PG-13

50% WILL SEE

3 / 5

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2.9 / 5

(7)

Punch-Drunk Love

A story about the owner of a struggling phone-sex business with seven abusive sisters who soon finds that three thugs are chasing him. Meanwhile, one of his sisters tries to set him up on a blind date with a woman who plays the harmonium, but it doesn't quite work out. Eventually, his hobby of collecting pudding coupons pays off, and he's able to win enough frequent flyer miles to take a trip to Hawaii, in a quest to find the mysterious girl...

Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Thomas Anderson, Luis Guzman

0% WILL SEE

2.9 / 5

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Released Friday, September 27th

80%

3.4 / 5

(8)

Sweet Home Alabama

In this romantic comedy, a New York fashion designer suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. But her past holds many secrets, including the redneck husband she married in high school, who refuses to divorce her. Bound and determined to end their contentious relationship once and for all, she sneaks back home to Alabama to confront her past, only to discover that you can take the girl out of the South, but you can never take the South out of the girl.

Reese Witherspoon, Patrick Dempsey, Andy Tennant, Fred Ward, Rhona Mitra, Mary Kay Place, Ethan Embry, Joshua Lucas

PG-13

80% WILL SEE

3.4 / 5

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Released Friday, August 2nd

50%

3.7 / 5

(11)

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Toula is 30. And unmarried. Which means as a nice Greek girl -- she's a failure. All her cousins did the right thing -- married Greek boys and made Greek babies. So everyone worries: what will become of Toula? Then one day she sees the ultimate unattainable guy and realizes the only way her life will get better is if he gets away from her big, fat Greek family. Toula escapes from the family restaurant. She exchanges her seating hostess jacket for a college diploma, convinces her aunt to give her a new job, and trades in her coke-bottle glasses for contact lenses, just in time for "him" to walk back into her life. Ian Miller is tall, handsome but defnitely not Greek. Their courtship is an Olympian culture clash. Can Ian handle Toula, her parents, her aunts, uncles, cousins and several centuries of Greek heritage? Will Toula discover the love she's been missing right in the heart of her big, fat family? One thing is for sure, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, with Ian's proposal Toula is headed for her big, fat Greek wedding.

Tom Hanks, Nia Vardalos, Michael Constantine, Joel Zwick, Lainie Kazan, Joey Fatone

50% WILL SEE

3.7 / 5

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Released Friday, August 16th

75%

3.3 / 5

(12)

Blue Crush

Nothing gets between Anne Marie (Kate Bosworth) and her board. Living in a beach shack on Oahu with three roommates including her rebellious younger sister, she is up before dawn every morning to conquer the waves and count the days until the Pipe Masters surf competition. Working as a hotel maid to pay the bills, Anne Marie finds everything else she needs in the adrenaline-charged surf scene ... until pro quarterback Matt Tollman (Matthew Davis) comes along. Like it or not, Anne Marie starts losing her balance - and finding it - as she falls for Matt.

Michelle Rodriguez, Brian Grazer, Karen Kehela, Sanoe Lake, Kate Bosworth, John Stockwell, Mika Boorem, Matthew Davis

PG-13

75% WILL SEE

3.3 / 5

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57%

2 / 5

(3)

Possession

Maud Bailey (Gwyneth Paltrow), a brilliant English academic given to doing things by the book, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel LeMotte (Jennifer Ehle). Roland Mitchell (Aaron Eckhart) is an upstart American scholar in London on a fellowship to study the great Randolph Henry Ash (Jeremy Northam), now best known for a collection of rapturous, late-life poems dedicated to his wife. When Maud and Roland discover a cache of love letters that appear to be from Ash to LaMotte, they follow a trail of clues across England to the Continent, echoing the journey of the impassioned couple a century earlier.

Aaron Eckhart, Gwyneth Paltrow, Graham Crowden, Lena Headey, Jennifer Ehle, Trevor Eve, Neil LaBute, Jeremy Northam

PG-13

57% WILL SEE

2 / 5

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Released Friday, August 23rd

83%

2.8 / 5

(5)

Serving Sara

Joe Tyler (Matthew Perry) might just have one of the worst jobs in the world, but he'll stop at nothing to do it. A down-and-dirty process server with ingenious methods of laying legal documents on everyone from mobsters to millionaires, Joe is a man determined to serve his man - or woman - at all costs. Sara Moore (Elizabeth Hurley) is Joe's next victim. Her conniving partner, Gordon (Bruce Campbell), a wealthy cattle rancher with whom she has amassed a fortune, has hired Joe to serve Sara with papers that threaten to cut her off. While at first Sara might not know what hit her, once the shock wears off, she's ready to strike back and go after waht she's entitled to - the money she earned with Gordon, a sizeable chunk of his ego...and just maybe a shot at true love.

Matthew Perry, Amy Adams, Cedric the Entertainer, Bruce Campbell, Reginald Hudlin, Elizabeth Hurley

PG-13

83% WILL SEE

2.8 / 5

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Released Friday, May 10th

87%

2.7 / 5

(14)

Unfaithful

Edward and Connie Summer (Richard Gere, Diane Lane) have the perfect life: a happy marriage, an eight year old son, and a beautiful house in the suburbs. But when Connie's chance encounter with a handsome stranger (Olivier Martinez) erupts into a full-blown affair, desire becomes obsession, and the true price of betrayal takes a shattering toll.

Diane Lane, Erik Per Sullivan, Richard Gere, Olivier Martinez, Michelle Monaghan, Chad Lowe, Adrian Lyne, Myra Lucretia Taylor

87% WILL SEE

2.7 / 5

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Released Friday, January 25th

88%

4 / 5

(27)

A Walk to Remember

Shane West and Mandy Moore star as two high schoolers -- she a straitlaced preacher's daughter and he an unmotivated delinquent. When events thrust him into her world, he begins an unexpected journey he'll never forget.

Karen Janszen, Mandy Moore, Clayne Crawford, Adam Shankman, Denise Di Novi, Shane West, Daryl Hannah, Lauren German

88% WILL SEE

4 / 5

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