It Takes A True Girly Girl To Name All Of These Rom-Coms
- by Breanna Burford
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If there's one genre of movie that stands out among its peers as timeless and classic, it's the romantic comedy. Don't get me wrong! Run of the mill comedies are great and sappy, dramatic romances definitely have their place in the world... But there's something about the combination of the two that just feels right, sort of like peanut butter and jelly. Peaches and cream. Bagels and cream cheese. Peanut butter and chocolate. Swedish fish and popcorn. To be fair, that last one is a bit of a personal thing, but anyone who gets my point already knows exactly what I'm talking about.
Since they've existed since practically the beginning of cinema, there are countless romantic comedies out there nowadays. There are so many, in fact, that it would take a bonafide fanatic to be able to name a large handful of them without having to consult their search engine or call a friend in to help. This quiz is for the few people out there who are passionate about the perfect combination of snarky dialogue, zany situations, heartstring-tugging backstories, borderline maddening "will they or won't they?" style build up - and, of course, the pay off of finally getting to see the characters happy in the end.
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Starring Michael Cera and Kat Dennings, this 2008 movie tells the story of a transformative night in the lives of two teenagers. He is a bassist in a band that can't pick a name who still spends an unhealthy amount of time crafting mix CDs for a girl who dumped him nearly a month ago. She is a frenemy of his ex-girlfriend who, unbeknownst to him, fishes those mix CDs out of the trash and downloads them onto her iPod. After meeting at a club where his band plays a gig, they find themselves on a wild adventure together.
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Walter Stratford is a well-meaning obstetrician who's the father of two girls, an antisocial senior named Kat and a popular sophomore named Bianca. The two are originally forbidden from dating until after they graduate, but he eventually succumbs and agrees to allow Bianca to date once Kat starts to, assuming that her off-putting disposition will prevent it from happening. Unfortunately for him, new student Cameron James catches wind of this and, in an attempt to get close to Bianca, enlists resident bad boy Patrick Verona to sweep Kat off her feet.
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Party boy senior, Sutter Keely, has just been dumped by his girlfriend, Cassidy, who says that he's a lost cause. After she starts dating athletic over-achiever Marcus, Sutter writes a bitter college application essay, then spends the night out partying. The next morning, he comes to in the front yard of a classmate whose name he doesn't know and ends up tagging along on her paper route. Over lunch, he learns that Aimee is a smart, funny girl with similar interests to him, and the two of them strike up a friendship that quickly becomes more.
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Successful and single, Kenya McQueen has chosen her career over a love life, and she's comfortable with it. At the insistence of her friends, she allows her co-worker to set her up on a blind date with Brian Kelly, a landscape architect, but she leaves quickly after she sees him. As luck would have it, he turns out to be her parents' landscaper, and when she sees what a marvelous job he's done, she hires him to renovate her own backyard. They begin a friendship that develops into more, but their cultural differences and the opinions of others weigh heavily on their relationship.
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When a Minnesota high school student finds herself pregnant, she's overcome with confusion and fear. She quickly realizes that she's only a teenager and completely unprepared to take care of a baby but also just can't bring herself to end the pregnancy, she sets to work on finding an adoptive family for her child. She maintains a relationship with the child's father, her longtime friend Paulie Bleaker, and the two of them develop a sweet romance in the midst of a life-changing and heart-wrenching reality.
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Quentin Jacobsen, who prefers to be called Q, has had a crush on his childhood friend, Margo Roth Spiegelman. In school, the two of them are from two different worlds because where she's popular and rebellious, he's a status quo-supporting outcast. When her boyfriend cheats on her, Margo reaches out to Q to help her exact revenge on him and their mutual friends, which they do through a night-long series of pranks. The next day, Margo disappears. Her parents are unconcerned because she's run away before, but Q is determined to find her, so he sets off with his friends Ben and Radar to do just that.
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High school student Lara Jean Song Covey is a hopeless romantic. At least in theory. In actuality, she's terrified of being in a relationship, and prefers to spend her time fantasizing about the boys she crushes on. In the past, she would write love letters to the boys she liked, with no intentions of ever sending them. However, her younger sister, Kitty, doesn't think that's a good idea, because she feels like life is passing Lara Jean by, so she sends out every single love letter she's ever written. As if it wasn't embarrassing and uncomfortable enough to have her private feelings exposed, her seventh grade crush, Peter Kavinsky, sees it as an opportunity to make his ex-girlfriend jealous by having Lara Jean pretend to be his girlfriend!
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After her relationship with her boyfriend, Damon, comes to an end, a passionate playwright finds herself thrown back into the world of dating. She gives Tinder a try, but it doesn't really work out. Luckily, her best friend is more than happy to set her up on a blind date with a recently divorced man. Things get off to a rocky start because each of them immediately starts to talk about their recently ended relationship - but somehow, it just works.
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For the entirety of his friendship with her, Noah Ashby has been in love with Avery Martin, but unfortunately, she never saw him as anything other than a good friend. Three years later, she invites him to come to her engagement party, where he spends the night recounting the Halloween party where he met her, while secretly heartbroken over the fact that she's engaged to someone else. When he awakens the next day, he discovers that he's been sent back in time... And realizes that he's been given a second chance at their first meeting.
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Pat has just been released into the care of his parents after spending eight months receiving treatment for his bipolar disorder in a mental health facility. The first thing on his mind is reconciliation with his ex-wife, but she has moved out of their town and gotten a restraining order against him after an incident involving another man. Disheartened but determined, he stays true to the idea of trying to get her back - even after he meets Tiffany Maxwell, an attractive, widowed young woman that he's bonded with over their mental health conditions.
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While his first novel was hugely successful, young author Calvin Weir-Fields is having trouble with producing another one. Additionally, he struggles with finding romantic relationships because he feels like he can't find a woman that doesn't put him on a pedestal because of who he is in the literary world. When his therapist instructs him to write a page about the kind of person who would like his dog, Scotty, he has a dream about a beautiful young woman named and he wakes up feeling inspired to write about her. One day, after writing a passage in which she confesses her love to him, he wakes up to find a real-life version of her in his kitchen.
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High school senior Dave Hodgman has a crush on one of the most attractive girls in his school, Jane Harmon. As he's practicing a speech in which he confesses his love to her, he's interrupted by a girl named Aubrey. The two of them flee to her home together when the police raid the party and end up spending the night having deep conversations on her bedroom floor. Even though she has an older boyfriend and his long-term crush is finally starting to notice him, there's something special between them that neither of them is able to ignore.
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When Theresa Jones goes back to her parents' house to celebrate their 25th anniversary, she brings her boyfriend, Simon Green, along with her. However, her father Percy almost immediately dislikes him. In an attempt to impress him, Simon lies about working for NASCAR's Jeff Gordon as a pit driver - but unfortunately for him, Percy is a huge fan of his, and it only makes him dislike him more... With all the hotels in town booked out, Percy is forced to allow Simon to stay in his home, but the tension between the two of them is only growing worse by the minute.
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Three men living in New York City are best friends, even though they all live separate lives: Mikey is a doctor, while Jason and Daniel work together as book cover designers at a publishing house together. Each of them has found themselves in a situation that requires them to take an introspective look at their romantic entanglements. Mikey's wife, Vera, has recently requested a divorce, while Jason has met a beautiful girl named Ellie, and Daniel has realized that he's falling for his wingwoman, Chelsea.
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In the year 1987, Jenna Rink strives to be one of the cool kids and has managed to convince the popular clique to come to her birthday party. Her best friend, Matty Flamhaff, comes over early to give her his gift: a handbuilt pink dollhouse with some glittering magic wishing dust sprinkled on top of it, which they hide in the closet. When the girls show up, they trick her into going into the closet to play seven minutes in heaven and then take off with half of the food and her completed homework. Heartbroken, Jenna cries and wishes that she was thirty, all while the magic wishing dust rains on her - and when she wakes up the next morning, she finds that her wish has come true.
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When his boss hires Summer Finn to work as his new assistant, greeting card writer Tom Hansen quickly develops a romantic interest in her. She's beautiful and the two of them share a similar taste in music, plus he finds it easy to lose himself in conversation with her. Their friendship gradually deepens into a mutual romantic connection, but his life is thrown off track when she suddenly breaks up with him. Nursing his wounds, he reflects on the entirety of their relationship, trying to figure out where it went wrong.
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Lona and Bennett have been locked in a fierce rivalry since their childhoods, which they seemingly inherited from their mothers, who were also constantly trying to one-up each other. She's an introvert from a humble background while he's arrogant, wealthy and popular. However, they do have something in common: the debate team. Both of them are remarkably good at it, and they're striving to get into their respective dream colleges, which means that they feel like they need to be the leaders of the team in order to beef up their college applications. To settle the argument, they're placed as co-leaders - and they realize, slowly, that they have quite a bit in common after all.
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Wealthy and beautiful, Cher Horowitz is a shallow girl with a heart of gold. She's the reigning queen bee in her high school, along with her best friend Dionne Davenport. When she gets a taste for match-making by making a love connection between two of her teachers, she sets her sights on helping out awkward new student Tai by giving her a makeover. However, Tai soon usurps her and becomes the most popular girl in school, leaving Cher to realize that there might be more to life than superficial things.
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When Rachel Chu's longterm boyfriend, Nick, invites her to be his date to his best friend's wedding in Singapore, she's happy to oblige. However, upon arrival, she learns that he comes from an extremely wealthy family, which is something that she wasn't aware of before. She also wasn't aware that he is one of the most eligible bachelors in his country, which means that she has to deal with not only trying to win the acceptance of his judgmental mother but also with critical attention from envious people.
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Executive recruiter Jamie convinces art director Dylan to take a job at GQ in New York City, meaning that he has to move from his home in Los Angeles. The two of them discover that they have quite a bit in common, including their complete and total failure in the romantic department that's left each of them jaded with a string of broken relationships behind them. The two of them agree that maybe it's okay to just have fun with someone without needing to put a label on it - but sometimes, the heart has a mind of its own.
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Charlie Logan has been unlucky in the world of romance since he was just a kid. Every relationship that he has falls apart for one reason or another, and to make matters worse, all of his exes end up finding true love with their subsequent partner. Word gets around about the benefits of spending time with him, causing women to enlist him for help, and he takes full advantage of the situation - until he meets the perfect girl, a penguin caretaker at the aquarium named Cam Wexler. Now, he's trying desperately to keep her from finding true love with someone else.
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Alex is a professional dating coach who has dedicated his life to helping even the most unbecoming people find true love. He's enlisted by Albert, an awkward but well-meaning man, to help him land the famous girl of his dreams, Allegra Cole. It starts off a bit rocky, but eventually, Albert starts to make progress with her. Soon, an ambitious tabloid writer named Sara begins to sniff around for information on Allegra - and even Alex's romantic expertise doesn't seem to be enough to sidetrack her from her mission.
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A high school senior has recently entered into a romantic relationship with his long-term best friend, Claire, after he becomes aware that her mother is undergoing testing for a potentially serious medical condition. As the end of the year approaches, their happy relationship becomes progressively more serious, and they make plans to go to prom together. However, things get complicated when he meets an attractive, charming boy from another school, which causes him to question everything he thought he knew about himself.
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Throughout his high school career, Denis Cooverman was a nerd. Like many other boys in his school, he was secretly interested in the most beautiful and popular cheerleader at his school. As he gives his valedictorian speech, during which he addresses several other members of his graduating class, he confesses his feelings for her in front of everyone, including her boyfriend. Instead of rejecting or ridiculing him, she turns up at his graduation party later that evening with her friends, promising to give him the time of his life.
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Matt Franklin is a recent MIT graduate, which means that he should be in the beginning stages of securing himself a lucrative career, right? Wrong. He refuses to grow up, instead choosing to take a position at a video store, which is something that he begins to doubt the intelligence of when his high school crush shows up and invites him to an end of summer party. He enlists his twin sister and his best friend to help him turn things around.
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Throughout high school, Chris Brander harbors romantic feelings for his best friend, Jamie Palamino. In their senior year, he writes a confession in her yearbook, but it ends up in the hands of her ex-boyfriend, who reads it out loud in front of a houseful of graduation party-goers. To add insult to injury, Jamie pulls him aside and quietly explains that she doesn't return his romantic feelings. Hurt, he leaves town, declaring that he'll come back, but he ends up returning ten years later with his new girlfriend after an emergency on their private jet. When he sees Jamie again, he realizes that he's still not over her yet.
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Fashion merchandising student, sorority leader, and wealthy socialite Elle Woods is in what she thinks is a happy relationship with her beloved boyfriend, Warner Huntington III. When he invites her on a romantic dinner date, she expects him to propose, but she's taken by surprise when he chooses to break up with her instead, stating that she's simply too "blonde" for him to have a serious future with her. Insulted and determined to win his heart, she pulls out all the stops and secures herself a position at Harvard Law, the same prestigious school he's attending.
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Socially inept overachiever Brandy Klark is the valedictorian of her graduating class in 1993. However, she leaves high school feeling like she missed out on the majority of important experiences, partially because of her dedication to her studies and partially because of her own awkwardness. She declares that she'll get rid of her uptight reputation before she attends college in the fall, and in true pragmatic fashion, sits down and makes a to-do list that consists of all the things she missed out on.
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Elle Evans has been inseparable with her best friend Lee Flynn since the day that they were born... Literally the same day, and at the same time, in the same hospital. They have a strict set of rules between them that they created together, which they have sworn to follow. It includes #9: relatives are totally off limits, which has always been easy to follow - until Lee's popular, swoon-worthy, bad boy older brother ends up kissing Elle while she works at her school carnival's kissing booth.
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Four men find their lives becoming increasingly more complicated after the women they're involved with pick up a copy of a book by comedian Steve Harvey, which gives them advice about romantic relationships and communicating with men in general. Michael, a mama's boy, struggles with his relationship with single mom Candace; Jeremy, a commitmentphobe, grapples with Kristen, a girl who wants to get married; Dominic, a dreamer, tries to work around Lauren's independence; Zeke finds himself at a loss against Mya's strict rules about how far things go. Determined to win back control, the men pick up their own copies and try to turn the advice around on them.
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It's beginning to become apparent to Ally Darling that she has lost her direction in life. She's recently lost her job in marketing, as well as her romantic relationship, but things seem to turn around for her after she reads a magazine that declares the unlikelihood of women who have too expansive of a romantic past being able to find a good man. Having already reached the magazine's limit, she sets out to rekindle a romance with one of her past lovers, believing that one of them must be her the right one for her.
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This garage band bassist has never struggled with landing girls. In fact, he has the opposite problem, and can never seem to get any of his exes to leave him alone. When he meets a beautiful and unique Amazon delivery girl, he's immediately enraptured with her - which is unfortunate for him because he quickly discovers that her baggage might just be the worst he's ever had to deal with. Her evil ex-boyfriends have banded together with the common goal of eliminating any potential suitors, and anyone who wants to pursue her has to defeat all them.
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After she joins an online dating website, Megan ends up reaching out to a man she met named Alec when she has a particularly bad night out. Neither of them plans on seeing the other again, but a freak snowstorm forces them to spend more time together. With nothing else to do and convinced that this was the last they'd see of each other, they decide to openly discuss their mistakes and their past relationships, which leads them to inadvertently form a real connection.
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Unpopular high school senior Dani Barnes is an ambitious high achiever that dreams of getting into UC Davis, one of the top veterniary schools in the country. She has sworn off of social media following the skyrocket of her former friend, Alexa, into internet fame. However, she develops a crush on Alexa's ex-boyfriend, Cameron Drake, and as she begins to pursue it, Alexa suddenly reaches out to her, hoping to rekindle their friendship. Although she accepts, she soon learns that what appears to be cool on social media might not actually be all that cool in real life, and her academic future could be at stake.
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James Brennan has graduated from college and he just can't wait to head off to Europe for the trip of his dreams. However, he learns that his parents are no longer able to afford to pay for his trip, which means that he has to pony up the cash for himself. That's how he finds himself employed for the summer at a rundown local amusement park, hoping to scrape together enough funding for his trip. He expects to have the worst summer of his life... But then he meets his cool co-worker, Emily Lewin, and suddenly, things don't seem so bad after all.
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Rosie Dunne has been best friends with Alex Stewart since she was five years old, but when the two of them share a kiss during her eighteenth birthday party, he realizes that he has feelings for her. While she laments some of the choices she'd made the night before, he assumes that she also regrets their kiss and wants to pretend it never happens, which he allows. As life goes on, it seems that the two of them are constantly being separated, whether it's by distance or other romantic partners... But what if they're meant to be?
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Remarkably intelligent high school student Sierra Burgess works tirelessly to get into Stanford University. Unfortunately, her intelligence doesn't save her from the fact that she's an easy target for insults from her popular, more conventionally attractive peers, particularly Veronica. When football player Jamey asks for Veronica's number, she decides to give him Sierra's phone number instead, hoping to embarrass the both of them. The two of them begin to text frequently and develop a romantic connection with one another, but she quickly realizes that he doesn't know it's her that he's talking to. She's in too deep to turn back now, so what can she do other than enlist the help of her former enemy, Veronica, to keep up her charade?
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Three separate romantic storylines converge into one family's story. Acclaimed novelist and part-time educator Bill Borgens has been struggling for approximately two years to cope with the fact that his wife, Erica, left him for a younger man. Bill and Erica's two children, literature-enthusiast son Rusty and cynical, commitmentphobic daughter Sam, have troublesome romantic entanglements of their own. Rusty has fallen for a classmate named Kate that he barely has the courage to speak to, in spite of her toxic habits, and Sam has met a charming, intelligent boy who threatens to break down the walls she's carefully crafted around herself.
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After a plague wipes out the majority of human civilization, the remaining survivors struggle to live alongside zombies. One zombie in particular, whose name is now R, has discovered that he's very different from his peers, in that he still has conscious thought. When his brethren attack a living girl named Julie, he steps in to rescue her from them, which wins him her favor. The two of them quickly develop a friendship that begins to deepen into a romantic relationship over time, causing dramatic changes in R that bring him closer and closer to humankind, which just might bring about the revitalisation of a lifeless world.
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Sasha and Paige have been best friends for a while, but they act more like one another's wives than anything else. Their relationship could be described as codependent, but they're both perfectly content with it, especially since neither of them has found a very serious romantic prospect. Each of them encourages the other to keep putting themselves out there, and they use online dating to set up separate dates on the same night - which is how Sasha meets a handsome young doctor named Tim, and suddenly finds herself interested in a serious romantic relationship, sending her relationship with Paige on a dramatic rollercoaster of emotions.
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Margaret Tate is an intimidating, ambitious woman who's incredibly dedicated to her job as a book editor. While she works in the United States of America, she's originally a citizen of Canada, and when she's faced with potentially being sent back, she concocts a quick plan to get herself out of it. She claims to be engaged to her assistant, Andrew Paxton, which he luckily goes along with... With a few stipulations, such as flying her to Alaska and introducing her to his family.
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Two exhausted assistants, Charlie and Harper, who work in the same building as one another meet by chance while picking up dinner for their bosses. The two of them end up forming a connection with one another that's mostly based on commiserating over how strenuous it is to work under their overbearingly ambitious bosses. Together, they hatch a plan to set the two of them up with one another, hoping that a romantic relationship will distract them enough to loosen things up around their jobs.
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As far as living up to one's own expectations goes, Zoe Crandle hasn't done a very good job. Her business is going belly up, leaving her stressed about how she's going to keep food on the table - and where she's even going to keep the table since she's being evicted from her home. To make things worse, her love life seems to be utterly doomed... Until she meets a lovable guy named Paul, whose life isn't going that much better than hers. The only problem? He's married.
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Kumail and Emily come from two completely different cultural backgrounds, but they connect with one another through a shared sense of humor when she attends one of his stand-up comedy shows. Their relationship develops into a meaningful romantic connection quickly, but he's concerned about what his traditional mother and father will think about it. However, when Emily falls ill and ends up comatose, he's forced to come to terms with the truth about how he feels, what he wants, and what their relationship has to offer to both them and their families.
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Charlie prefers to keep his romantic relationships easy, casual, and fun because he doesn't believe in serious relationships. His best friends decide to call his bluff by offering him a bet that even he won't be immune to love if he gives a single woman a month of his time and truly commits to her, which he eagerly accepts, thinking that it will be a walk in the park for him. However, once he meets Eva, a gorgeous, enigmatic woman, he finds himself on the losing side.
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Thanks to the teachings of her father, Amy doesn't believe in monogamy. She prefers to do whatever she wants with whoever she wants, and tries to avoid ending up in situations that could lead to any kind of commitment. However, it isn't all fun and games, and she's actually in a bit of a rut. When her job as a magazine writer brings her into contact with Aaron Conners, a sports doctor, she finds herself unexpectedly developing genuine feelings for him, which he seems to return, and she starts to second guess her lifestyle.
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High school is complicated for everyone, especially when it comes to romantic relationships. No one understands this better than a seventeen-year-old Atlanta resident known who's been hiding the truth about his romantic preferences for the majority of his teenage years. When he discovers that another boy in his school shares them, he quickly reaches out to him, and the two of them connect through e-mail, communicating under the pseudonyms Jacques and Blue. Things seem to be going perfectly... Until one of his classmates finds out about their e-mails and threatens to expose them to the school if their demands aren't met.
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In London, two punk rock-loving teenage boys named Vic and Enn are just trying to crash a party when they stumble upon a group of unusual, somewhat unsettling people. They soon learn that they are all part of a species of aliens habitually bring their youth on a tour earth as a part of a strange rite of passage. One of them, a beautiful female, breaks away from her group after becoming fascinated with Enn, which is only the beginning of their unusual adventure together.
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A group of people who work together on a magazine set out to fulfill the classified advertisement of a man named Kenneth, who claims that he's seeking a companion for traveling through time. One of the interns, Darius, is a cynical young woman who ends up spending the most time with him because each of her companions is distracted by another conquest. During their time together, they grow to understand one another better, and she actually begins to feel a connection to him - and a deep curiosity about whether or not his time travel claims are the rantings of a mad scientist.
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Wildlife veterinarian Henry Roth has experienced more than his fair share of romantic involvements with women, but he's got his sights set on winning the heart of Lucy Whitmore. Unfortunately, she was in an automobile accident approximately a year before they met that left her with short-term memory loss, meaning that she can't remember anything that happened the day before. Still, he won't give up, even if it means that he has to start all over again with her each morning.