Based on the best-selling novel from Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You is far more than the standard chick flick that it may first appear to be. Relocating the novel from Ireland to America, multiple Oscar-winner Hilary Swank stars as the young woman who has recently lost her husband. And yet amidst her grief, she discovers a series of letters that he's written to help. These letters give her ...

Manufacturer: Momentum Pictures
Starring: Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler, Lisa Kudrow, Gina Gershon, Jeffery Dean Morgan
Directed By: Richard LaGravenese

Appreciating that the title does the film few favours, Angus, Thongs & Perfect Snogging nonetheless emerges as a really quite pleasant surprise. Based on the book by Louise Rennison, and directed by Bend It Like Beckham helmer Gurinder Chadha, Angus, Thongs & Perfect Snogging centres around the character of Georgia Nicolson, played by Georgia Groome, and her trials and ...

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
Starring: Georgia Groome, Liam Hess, Tommy Bastow, Sean Bourke
Directed By: Gurinder Chadha

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
Starring: Emma Roberts, Nick Frost
Directed By: Nick Moore

Katherine Heigl is delightful as Jane, a self-effacing Gal Friday so addicted to organizing weddings in her off time, that 27 Dresses opens with her character juggling two nuptials on the same night. A perpetual bridesmaid, Jane's hobby is discovered by a matrimony reporter named Kevin (James Marsden), who hides a romantic side behind his wall of cynicism. While Kevin gradually develops ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Starring: Katherine Heigl, James Marsden, Edward Burns, Judy Greer, Malin Akerman
Directed By: Anne Fletcher

Breaking up is hard to do--but that doesn't mean you can't have some belly laughs about it. Forgetting Sarah Marshall provides that rare treat: a romantic comedy about breakups, that is both romantic and funny. The laughs, especially from writer-star Jason Segel, are both heartfelt and raunchy, and the film is just unexpected enough that it keeps the viewer's attention till the end. The ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
Starring: Kristen Bell, Russell Brand, Bill Hader, Jason Segel, Mila Kunis
Directed By: Nick Stoller

Manufacturer: Touchstone Home Video
Starring: Richard Gere, Julia Roberts, Ralph Bellamy, Hector Elizondo, Larry Miller
Directed By: Garry Marshall

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher, Dennis Farina, Queen Latifah, Rob Corddry
Directed By: Tom Vaughan

As a pleasant dose of holiday cheer, The Holiday is a lovable love story with all the Christmas trimmings. In the capable hands of writer-director Nancy Meyers (making her first romantic comedy since Something's Gotta Give), it all begins when two successful yet unhappy women connect through a home-swapping website, and decide to trade houses for the Christmas holiday in a mutual ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures Video
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Jack Black, Kate Winslet, Jude Law
Directed By: Nancy Meyers

With no fewer than eight couples vying for our attention, Love Actually is like the London Marathon of romantic comedies, and everybody wins. Having mastered the genre as the writer of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Bridget Jones's Diary, it appears that first-time director Richard Curtis is just like his screenplays: he just wants to be loved, and he'll ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Colin Firth, Laura Linney
Directed By: Richard Curtis

Lest there be any doubts about the ongoing relevance of the novels of Jane Austen, the charming Jane Austen Book Club will lay them to rest--with wit, sharp insight, and a wicked chuckle or three. Directed by the talented Robin Swicord, who adapted the book by Karen Joy Fowler (and also wrote the crackling screenplay for the 1994 version of Little Women), the film is a modern-day ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Starring: Kevin Zegers, Jimmy Smits, Maria Bello, Kathy Baker, Hugh Dancy
Directed By: Robin Swicord