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St. Elmo’s Fire Synopsis: A group of friends, just out of college, struggle with adulthood. It’s been a while since I’ve sat down and watched St. Elmo’s Fire, one of my favorite movies from the Brat Pack era of the ’80s. Released in 1985, just five months after The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo’s Fire stars quite a few of the same actors, but instead of playing teenagers learning life lessons in Saturday school, they’re playing college graduates learning life lessons as adults, and I use that term very loosely. In St. Elmo’s Fire, We’re introduced to six friends. Kirby Keager…
Silver Linings Playbook Synopsis: After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own. After discovering his wife’s affair, Pat Solitano (Bradley Cooper) ends up in a psychiatric hospital for eight months to control his mental health (and to avoid a serious criminal charge after nearly beating the other man to death). Once he’s back home with his parents, Pat begins to reach out to her despite this being a…
Sleeping With Other People: Twelve years after a one-night stand, a man and a woman run into each other and try to maintain a platonic relationship despite their mutual attraction.
The Switch: Seven years after the fact, a man comes to the realization that he was the sperm donor for his best friend’s boy.
Serendipity Synopsis: A couple search for each other years after the night they first met, fell in love, and separated, convinced that one day they’d end up together. While Christmas shopping for their significant others, Jonathan (John Cusack) and Sara (Kate Beckinsale) share a chance encounter over a pair of black cashmere gloves. He is instantly smitten, but Sara believes in destiny, serendipity if you will, and after one magical night, they leave it up to fate as to whether or not they truly belong together. A few years later, both are engaged to be married to other people, but…
Second Act Synopsis: A big box store worker reinvents her life and her life-story and shows Madison Avenue what street smarts can do. Second Act is being touted as Jennifer Lopez’s “return to romantic comedy,” her last venture in the rom-com genre having been the mediocre 2010 film, The Back-Up Plan. And while I can understand why the studio wants to market Second Act as a rom-com, it’s more than a little misleading. Yes, Second Act is a comedy, but the romance it’s touting is maybe a total of twenty-five minutes of the movie from start to finish. Essentially Second…
Set It Up: Harper and Charlie are two overworked and underpaid assistants who decide that the best way to get their ambitious, workaholic bosses off their backs is to set them up with each other.
Save the Date: Sarah begins to confront her shortcomings after she rejects her boyfriend’s hasty proposal and soon finds herself in a rebound romance.
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