Romantic Films According to ME! ! (Part 2)

Now I am not saying these are the 'greatest' romantic
films of all time, nor even the 'most' romantic, just
that I think they are some of the best romantic films
I have seenand enjoyed.

I was writing of accidents that seperated loved ones
so it brings me to "Forever Young" (1992). In early
1939 a car accident puts Helen (Isabel Glasser) in a
coma. The doctor holds little hope of her surviving.
Her boy friend Daniel McCormick does not want to see
her die agrees to be part of his friend's cryonic
freezing experiement, which is to last a year. But
the outbreak of WW11 and a warehouse fire means the
cryonic chamber is forgotten. It is not till 53
years later when two boys accidently reverse the
process that Daniel is revived. he must find out
what happened to Helen.

It is while Peter Callaghan (Peter Gallagher) is in
a coma, that Lucy Moderatz (Sandra Bullock) falls in
love with his brother, in "While You Were Sleeping."
(1995).

A car accident also features in "An Affair To Remember"
(1957)Nickie Ferrante (Cary Grant) meets Terry McKay
(Deborah Kerr) on a curise from Europe to New York.
Although involved with other people thay fall in love.
After docking they agree to seperate, but if they feel
the same way in 6 months they will meet at the top of
the Empire State Buiding. On her way there Terry is
so busy looking up at the Empire State building she
walks in front of a taxi and is crippled. Feeling she
would now be a burden to Nickie she makes no move
to contact him!!!

A taxi is also the cause of John Smith's (Ronald
Colman) accident in "Random Harvest" (1942). Thus he
is seperatded by loss of memory from his wife Paula
(Greer Garson.) Bring plenty of tissues for this one.

"50 First Dates" revolves around the fact that Lucy
Whitmore (Drew Barrymore) suffers from Goldfield
Syndrome, the inability to form new memories. Thus
Henry Roth (Adam Sandler) has to woo each day as of
it was their first time together!

"The Vow" (2012) Paige Collins (Rachel McAdams) and
husband Leo (Channing Tatum) are in a car accident.
Paige loses all memory of her life since just before
she left College. Leo must her fall in love with him
again. The title of the movie comes from part of
their wedding vow.

"The Note Book" (2004) revolves around the fact that
Allie Hamilton (Gena Rowlands) suffes from Alzheimer's.
She is a patient in a nursing home, where another
patient 'Duke' (James Garner) is reading her a love
story from a note book. It is the story of their love
and life together.

Losing one's memory is the theme of "Eternal Sunshine
of the Spotless Mind" (2004). After a hellish argument
Clementine Krucynski (Kate Winslet) has all memory of
her boyfriend Joel Barish (Jim Carey) wiped from her
mind. When he finds this out he under goes the
procedure too! Things become interesting when they
meet again!

Meeting years later after initally meeting is how
"The Way We Were" (1973) starts. Katie Morosky
(Barbra Strisand) and Hubbell Gardiner (Robert Redford)
first met, in 1930, in college. They meet again after
WW11. They marry and move to Hollywood and we follow
the up and down of their relationship.

WW 11 also features in "The Sound of Music" (1965).
Postulant nun Marie (Julie Andrews) is sent to be nanny
to an Austrian officer's Captain Georg Ludwig Von Trapp
children. They marry (remind you of "Who's The Boss"
and "The Nanny") and have to flee with the children,
giving everything up, to save thier lives when Germany
invades Austria.

Giving everything up, is what angel Seth ( Nicolos Cage)
does after falling for Dr. Maggie Rice (Meg Ryan)in
"City of Angels" (1998).