Club Benefits
Sure, these days, it feels like romantic movies are relegated to the Valentine's season, but we love a good rom-com all year round. And, luckily for us, Disney+ — one of the top streaming services around — is flush with funny and lovable romantic comedies for those times we're looking for something to make us sigh, swoon and, most importantly, laugh out loud.
Sure, the Disney platform has those big-name movie romances that you already know and love, from "10 Things I Hate About You" to "27 Dresses," from "Never Been Kissed" to "While You Were Sleeping." But it's also home to equally enjoyable but more under-the-radar rom-coms that you might have missed upon their initial release.
Article continues below'Dan in Real Life'
From "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" to "Crazy, Stupid, Love," Steve Carell's got some veritable hits in the old rom-com genre, but one of his best is the lesser-known love-triangle comedy "Dan in Real Life." The 2007 Peter Hedges-directed flick finds "The Office" alum playing single-dad-of-three Dan Burns, whose professional expertise as a relationship advice columnist hasn't exactly translated to personal success in the love department.
Things get even more romantically complicated for Dan when he has a seemingly simple meet-cute with the woman of his dreams Marie (played by Juliette Binoche), only to later discover that she's actually the new girlfriend of his younger brother (Dane Cook) and he'll be forced to spend an entire weekend under the same roof as the couple during the Burns' annual family gathering in Rhode Island. Romantic hijinks understandably ensue!
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'Rye Lane'
We have a soft spot for romance movies that mostly have two characters simply walking around, talking and, yes, falling for each other ("Lost in Translation," the "Before" trilogy, etc.), and "Rye Lane" is one of the loveliest recent additions to that grand tradition.
Directed by Raine Allen-Miller in her feature directorial debut, the 2023 rom-com centers on Yas (Vivian Oparah) and Dom (David Jonsson), two twentysomething Brits both reeling from recent break-ups, who have a chance encounter and connect over the course of an eventful day in South London. Boosted by a witty script, charming leads and believable chemistry throughout, the 82 minutes you spend with Yas and Dom go breezily by, a heartwarming and human connection that you can't help but root for.
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'No Hard Feelings'
At the time of its release in 2023, it was something of a surprise for Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence — ye of auteur-driven dramas and box-office action franchises — to take on a big-budget romantic comedy. But "No Hard Feelings" — directed by Gene Stupnitsky ("Good Boys") from a screenplay he co-wrote with John Phillips — was a fresh and funny take on the crowd-pleasing genre, with a good deal of relatable feelings to balance out all of its raunch.
Lawrence stars as 32-year-old Maddie Barker, an Uber driver and bartender in Montauk, New York. With her car repossessed and bankruptcy in view, Maddie desperately answers the Craigslist posting of rich couple Laird and Alison Becker (Matthew Broderick and Laura Benanti), who want to hire her to date their awkward and romantically inexperienced 19-year-old son Percy (Andrew Barth Feldman) before he heads off to Princeton in the fall. Maddie quickly gets to work to form a relationship with the young lad, but one that ends up unexpectedly real.
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