10. Punch-Drunk Love
Here is a film that has one of the most over-looked and underrated performances of all-time. Barry Egan (played by Adam Sandler), a shy sad-sack with a great deal of repressed anger that occasionally bursts forth in sudden violent outrages, who falls in love with Lena Leonard (played by Emily Watson), a co-worker of one of Barry's 7 sisters. After calling a phone-sex line, Barry is extorted by bad-guy Dean Trumbell (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman), who eventually sends four goons to assault Barry and get the money. I feel that Adam Sandler gives us his greatest performance and I feel that he should have been nominated for an Oscar. Punch-Drunk Love has a rating of 79% on rottentomatoes.com.
9. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
In my opinion this is one of the most underrated films of all-time. Joel Barish (played by Jim Carrey), a man who is informed that his ex-girlfriend Clementine (played by Kate Winslett) has had her memories of their relationship erased from her brain via an experiment procedure performed by Dr. Mierzwiak (played by Tom Wilkinson). Not to be outdone, Joel decides to have the same procedure done to himself. As Mierzwiak's bumbling underlings Stan (played by Mark Ruffalo) and Patrick (played by Elijah Wood) perform the operation on Joel. Over the course of the evening (in his apartment), Joel struggles in his own mind to save the memories of Clementine from being deleted. Like Adam Sandler in Punch-Drunk Love, Jim Carrey give the best performance of his career and deserved an Oscar nomination. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was nominated for 2 Academy Awards including Best Actress and Best Original Screenplay, only winning one (Best Original Screenplay), and it has a rating of 93% on rottentomatoes.com.
8. The Last of the Mohicans
I'm a huge history buff and huge fan of Daniel Day-Lewis and this film is simply amazing The last members of a dying Native American tribe, the Mohicans -- Uncas (played by Eric Schweig), his father Chingachgook (played by Russell Means), and his adopted half-white brother Hawkeye (played by Daniel Day-Lewis) -- live in peace alongside British colonists. But when the daughters (played by Madeleine Stowe and Jodhi May respectively) of a British colonel are kidnapped by a traitorous scout, Hawkeye and Uncas must rescue them in the crossfire of a gruesome military conflict of which they wanted no part: the French and Indian War. The Last of the Mohicans was nominated for and won the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing and it has a rating of 97% on rottentomatoes.com.
7. Pretty Woman
This is literally one of the funniest films I've ever seen and its in my top 20 comedies of all-time. Self-involved corporate raider Edward Lewis (played by Richard Gere) has recently split up with his girlfriend. Seeking directions to the Beverly Hills Hotel, he makes the acquaintance of free-spirited hooker Vivian Ward (played by Julia Roberts) and decides to put her on a 3,000 dollar retainer as his "date'. He Cinderellarizes her by bankrolling a full wardrobe and cosmetic makeover. This film put Julia Roberts on the map. Pretty Woman was nominated for 1 Academy Award for Best Actress and it has a rating of 62% on rottentomatoes.com.
6. Dirty Dancing
I really enjoy this film simply because of one of favorite actors... Patrick Swayze. Baby (played by Jennifer Grey) is one listless summer away from the Peace Corps. Hoping to enjoy her youth while it lasts, she's disappointed when her summer plans deposit her at a sleepy resort in the Catskills with her parents. Her luck turns around, however, when the resort's dance instructor, Johnny (played by Patrick Swayze), enlists Baby as his new partner, and the two fall in love. Baby's father forbids her from seeing Johnny, but she's determined to help him perform the last big dance of the summer. Dirty Dancing was nominated for and won the Academy Award for Best original Song and it has a rating of 72% on rottentomatoes.com.
5. Annie Hall
This is considered not only one of the greatest romacne films of all-time but one of the greatest films of all-time. Comedian Alvy Singer (played by Woody Allen) examines the rise and fall of his relationship with struggling nightclub singer Annie Hall (played by Diane Keaton). Speaking directly to the audience in front of a bare background, Singer reflects briefly on his childhood and his early adult years before settling in to tell the story of how he and Annie met, fell in love, and struggled with the obstacles of modern romance, mixing surreal fantasy sequences with small moments of emotional drama. Annie Hall was nominated for 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Original screenplay while wining 4 (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress and Best Original Screenplay) and it has a rating of 98% on rottentomatoes.com.
4. Silver Linings Playbook
This film is spectacular and it has some of the best performances in film. Patrick "Pat" Solitano (played by Bradley Cooper), a man with bipolar disorder is released from a psychiatric hospital and moves back in with his parents (platyed by Robert DeNiro and Jackie Weaver). Determined to win back his estranged wife, Pat meets recently widowed Tiffany Maxwell (played by Jennifer Lawrence). She tells Pat that she will help him get his wife back if he enters a dance competition with her. The two become closer as they train and Pat, his father and Tiffany examine their relationships with each other as they cope with their issues. The film is very powerful and very emotional. Silver Lings Playbook was nominated for 8 Academy Awards including Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Editing, while winning only 1 (Best Actress) and it has a rating of 92% on rottentomatoes.com.
3. Four Weddings and A Funeral
I didn't know what to expect out of this fill when I first watched but it turned out to be very hilarious. Charles (played by Hugh Grant) is a confirmed British bachelor and serial monogamist with a colorful romantic background who unexpectedly meets the perfect woman, Carrie (played by Andie McDowell) at a wedding and falls in love with her, But his inability to express his feelings seems forestall any possibility of relationship, until they meet over the course of Four Weddings and A Funeral. Four Weddings and A Funeral was nominated for 2 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay, and it has a rating of 96% on rottentomatoes.com.
2. Sleepless in Seattle
I love this film simply because the kid in the film is named Jonah and it is one of the 3 places my name comes from. When Sam's son, Jonah (played by Ross Manlinger), calls into a talk radio program looking for a new mother, Sam (played by Tom Hanks) ends up getting on the phone and laments about his lost love. Thousands of miles, away Annie (played by Meg Ryan) hears the program and immediately falls in love with Sam, despite the fact that she has never met him and is engaged to humdrum Walter (played by Bill Pullman). Believing they are meant to be together, Annie sets out for Seattle to meet Sam, who, meanwhile, contends with an onslaught of letter from available women equally touched by his phone call. Sleepless in Seattle was nominated for 2 Academy Awards including Best Original Song and Best Original Screenplay and it has a rating of 71% on rottentomatoes.com.
1. 10 Things I Hate About You
This is an awesome and hilarious film. Bianca Strafford (played by Larissa Oleynik) is a tenth grader who has never gone out on a date, as her parents have a rule that Bianca isn't allowed to date until her older sister Kat (played by Julia Stiles) gets a boyfriend. Bianca and the guy she has her eye on, Joey Donner (played by Andrew Keegan), are eager to get their romance on the road, so Joey fixes Kat up with Patrick Verona (played by Heath Ledger), a new kid in town who may be just bitter and mysterious enough to suit her. This film is known for the breakthrough performances of Stiles and Ledger. 10 Things I hate About You has a rating of 61% on rottentomatoes.com.
So ladies and gentlemen what do you think of my list, what are some of your favorite romance films of all-time? Let me know in the comments section, let your voice be heard and Happy Valentine's Day.
Jonah Sparks
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