Sentences with phrase «in romantic comedies since»

Christina Applegate as Corinne: This is the best sister / girlfriend sidekick in a romantic comedy since Leslie Mann as Debbie in Knocked Up.

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Christian Mingle caters not only to Christian singles, but also to movie lovers, since it played an important role in a romantic comedy of the same name telling an adorable story about online matchmaking.

Later that year, Macdonald appeared in Mike Figgis» The Loss of Sexual Innocence, playing the young girlfriend of the film's protagonist; and in Gregg Araki's Splendor, a romantic comedy in which she played the blue - haired best friend of the film's heroine.After a slew of similar supporting roles, including a memorable turn as the daughter of Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Colin Firth in My Life So Far, MacDonald was given possibly her biggest break since Trainspotting when Robert Altman cast her as a lead (albeit one of many) in Gosford Park (2001).

Never has a sparkling, entertaining comedy so slowly derailed from squeezing in tacky, flat - footed bathroom humor since the 2001 Monica Potter - Freddie Prinze Jr. romantic - thriller - farce «Head Over Heels.»

What easily could have been the formula for a run of the mill romantic comedy is heightened and finely tuned by a smart script that has clearly been helped by nine years of rewrites since the screenplay was first conceived as «Divorce Comedy» incomedy is heightened and finely tuned by a smart script that has clearly been helped by nine years of rewrites since the screenplay was first conceived as «Divorce Comedy» inComedy» in 2003.

It's incredible to think that in the short 10 years since the release of «Shaun of the Dead,» the zombie comedy has practically become its own subgenre, even spawning several «rom - zom - coms» (romantic zombie comedies, a term coined during the marketing for that film) in the process.

It's three years since the latter picked up the best reviews he'd had in years, and with his new film also being a 1920s - set romantic comedy, and set on the French Riviera, it'd be natural to return to the area where he shot the film last July for the premiere.

It's been a long time since we trusted McConaughey to give us anything but crappy romantic comedies, but this looks like the kind of movie Paul Newman might have starred in during his rumpled «70s run.

With a premise uncannily similar to the 1990 quirky Cher / Winona Ryder vehicle Mermaids, The Perfect Man feels like a mishmash of romantic comedy conventions employed in almost every successful venture since, from Sleepless in Seattle to You've Got Mail, and all points in between.

In the years since, she has successfully transitioned to writing fiction — Susan is now the author of the Alpine Grove Romantic Comedies series that features residents of the small town of Alpine Grove and their various quirky dogs and cats.