Top Movies to Watch on Valentine's Day
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On Valentine’s Day while searching for a romantic film to watch, alone or with your significant other, your mind may draw a blank of the list of classic love stories. Here is that list that you are searching for, a list of love stories throughout the years fit for students at DHS. So pick a film, sit back with a box of chocolates and enjoy.
10 Things I Hate about You
In this romantic comedy a rebellious outcast, high school senior, Kat Stratford (Julia Stiles), is insisted by another social outcast Patrick Verona (Heath Ledger) to go on a date. He is only dating her though so a popular high school hottie Joey (Andrew Keegan) can ask out Kat’s younger beautiful sister Bianca (Larrissa Oleynik), since the strict father (Larry Miller) only allows Bianca out of the house, or on a date, if Kat goes out on a date. Yet like all teenager classic love stories, Patrick and Kat fall in love and the story is turned around when Kat eventually finds out that Patrick was paid to ask her out.
The Notebook
A summer romance turns into a lifetime love in this romantic film. Allie Hamilton (Rachel McAdams) and Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling) find themselves head over heals for each other, until Allie is forced by her parents to attend a school in another town at the end of the summer. The two later bring themselves back to each other and have to make a life changing decision, to be together or be forever apart.. The throughout the film it shows Noah much older and in a nursing home reading the story of their lives together to Allie for she has lost her memory and does not remember their past together. “The Notebook” tells the story of two loves lost over time and finding their way back to each other through a story.
A Walk to Remember
Trouble maker Landan Carter (Shane West) surprisingly falls for a girl far from cool, Jamie Sullivan (Mandy Moore). He is confused when she turns down his offer to be in a serious relationship with him, but later learns the secret she is holding in that is keeping them from being together. Together they grow closer as Jamie’s days with Landan become shorter. “A Walk to Remember” demonstrates how far someone will go for the one they love.
P.S. I Love You
Holly Kennedy (Hilary Swank) is married to the love of her life, an Irish man Gerry (Gerard Butler). When Gerry dies because of an illness and Holly now feels alone in the world. No one can care for her like he did. Before Gerry’s death he planned to send her a series of letters that will guide her through her life without him. The letters continue for months and send Holly on new discoveries and adventures. Friends and family of Holly’s see these letters as a set back from helping her move on, but little do they know they are actually helping Holly realize that death can be a new beginning.
Sleepless in Seattle
After the death of his wife, Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks) has no room in his mind for other women, but his 8-year-old son, Jonah (Ross Malinger) thinks differently. His son calls a radio talk show and tells all of Seattle about his father. Suddenly, Sam starts getting non-stop calls from women. Annie Reed (Meg Ryan) is one of those women. Reed goes as far as to travel to Seattle before she gets married to her fiancé just to make sure Sam is not the one for her.
A Lot like Love
You’ve heard of love at first sight, and that it takes people years to fall in love, but in this romantic comedy it’s both. Oliver Martin (Ashton Kutcher) and Emily Freihl (Amanda Peet) meet on a flight from Los Angeles to New York. Immediately they form a connection, but decide they are not meant to be. Over the next seven years they continue to go in and out of each other lives, only in the end to find that they are meant to be together. This film reveals that sometimes it does take some fate and seven years to be with the one you love.
