Of course I have not included full reviews of films
that were in the 'Friend Reunited' list, that I also
think are romantic, which were:-
"Dirty Dancing"
"Sleepless in Seattle"
" Gone With The Wind" (which was Fox Classsics on
Saturday 25th August, and I note that
"From Here to Etenrity" will be screened in September)
"Titanic"
"Casablanca"
"Breakfest at Tiffany's"
and
"Ghost."
A ghost features in "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" (1947)
Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney) moves to a rented cottage in
the country to save money after her husband dies.
However the ghost of the former owner Captain Daniel
Gregg (Rex Harrison)does not make it easy for her.
In "Truely, Madly, Deeply" (1990) Nina (Juliet Stovenson)
is on the brink of despair over her boyfriend Jamie's
(Allan Rickman) death. So he comes back to live with her.
Will her idealised memory of him survive his reappearance?
I have written about car accidents, comas and ghosts and
all three feature in "Just Like Heaven" (2005). Elizabeth
Masterson (Reese Witherspoon) is in a car accident. Soon
after David Abbott (Mark Ruffalo) moves into her apartment.
They are both shocked when Elizabeth appears in her/his
apartment. She thinks he is an intruder and he thinks she
is a ghost!
Love from beyond the grave is aslo part of the theme in
"P.S. I Love You" (2007) Holly (Hillary Swank) loses
husband, Gerry (Gerald Butler) to a brain tumour, but soon
after begins to recevive letters from him. They all end
in P.S. I love you.
"Over Her Dead Body" (20080 (also deals with 'love' admittly
a jealous one to begin with.) Kate Spencer (Eva Longoria ) is
killed by an ice sculpture that falls on her on her wedding
day. A year later her fiance Dr. Henry Mills (Paul Rudd)
is talked into seeing a psychic Ashley Clark, ( Lake Bell),
in ordwer to be alble 'to move on' They begin to fall in love
and that is when Kath's ghost really starts to play up.
In dealing with 'moving on' there is "Sweet Home Alabama"
(2002) in which Melaine Smooter (Reese Witherspoon) leaves
her husband (Jake Perry ( Josh Lucas) after a miscarriage.
She goes to New York where she changes her surname to
Charmichael and become a sucessful fashion designer.
She becomes engaged to Mayor's son Andrew Hennings (had to
love that as my maiden name was Henning!!) (Patrick Dempsey)
but she is still married to Jake.
Looking at different futures is the basis of "Sliding Doors"
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