This is the good version. The basic plotline of rom-coms

1. Haven’t I heard
that story before?
It’s the same old song… just a different beat

2. It Happened One Night (1934)
• Claudette Colbert runs away
from her rich father to be
with the man she loves
• Reporter Clark Gable
threatens to tell her father
where she is, if she doesn’t
give him an exclusive story
• Although she hates him, he
helps her to go to the man
she loves
• In the end, she falls in love
with him

3. Lili (1958)
• Leslie Caron joins a circus,
doesn’t like bitter puppet
master Mel Ferrer
• His sidekick is his assistant,
hers are the puppets
• She is love with the
magician, who she doesn’t
know is already married
• In the end, she realizes that
the puppetmaster loves her

4. Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
• Audrey Hepburn is a
prostitute, George
Peppard a gigolo
• Audrey’s sidekicks: her
customers, George, his
mistress
• Audrey plans to marry
Jose and move to Brazil
• In the end, she and
George come together

5. Overboard (1987)
• Goldie Hawn is a rich bitch who
hires poor widower carpenter
Kurt Russell ; she is engaged to
another person
• Her sidekick is her butler, his is his
children
• She gets amnesia and Kurt
Russell, to get back, tells her that
she is hs wife
• She gets to love him and his
children, but then gets her memory
back and leaves
• In the end, she comes back to him

6. Moonstruck (1987)
• Cher meets Nicholas
Cage, her fiance’s
brother
• Cher’s sidekick is her
mother, his is his brother
• She’s engaged to Danny
Aiello
• In the end, she comes
together with Nicholas

7. Look Who’s Talking (1989)
• Poor cabdriver John
Travolta falls for rich
executive Kirstie Alley, who
wants nothing to do with
him – – she has a child by
another man
• His sidekick is the baby, hers
is her mother
• When she realizes the father
doesn’t love her, she accepts
John’s love

8. When Harry Met Sally (1989)
• Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan
meet, don’t like each other
• Billy Crystal has his sidekick
Bruno Kirby, Meg Ryan has
Carrie Fischer
• Both Billy and Meg go out
with different people
• At the end, they come
together

9. You’ve Got Mail (1998)
• Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks
meet (in person), don’t like each
other
• Meg has her sidekicks
(employees), Tom has Dabney
Coleman (father) and Dave
Chapelle (employee)
• Tom’s girlfriend is Parker
Posey, Meg’s boyfriend is Greg
Kinnear
• Finally at the end, they come
together

10. Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
• Meg Ryan writes to Tom
Hanks, but he doesn’t want
to meet her
• Meg has her sidekick (Rosie
O’Donnell), Tom’s is played
by Rob Reiner
• Tom goes out with Barbara
Garrick, Meg with Bill
Pullman
• In the end, they come
together

11. While You Were Sleeping (1995)
• Bill Pullman meets Sandra
Bullock, who claims to be
engaged to his brother (who
is in a coma) and doesn’t
trust her
• Bill’s “sidekick” is his
father, Sandra’s is her boss
• Sandra almost marries Bill’s
brother
• In the end, she and Bill get
together

12. My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997)
• Julia Roberts is best friends with
Dermot Mulroney
• Her (male) “sidekick” is her boss,
Rupert Everett, his is his fiance,
Cameron Diaz
• She tries to break up their
relationship to win him for herself,
but only gets him angry at her
when she breaks up their
engagement
• In the end, she restores the
friendship by bringing them back
together. The film ends with him
married to his sidekick and her
dancing with her sidekick

13. Legally Blonde (2001)
• Reese Witherspoon meets
Luke Wilson, but is trying
to win back Matthew Davis
• Her sidekick is her dog, or
maybe Jennifer Coolidge; his
sidekick is his boss, Victor
Garber
• She ignores Luke while
trying to win back her ex
• In the end, she realizes that
Luke is the one for her

14. Sweet Home Alabama (2002)
• Reese Witherspoon is
separated from Josh Lucas
and wants to marry Patrick
Dempsey
• Her sidekick is an old friend,
his is the entire town
• She tries everything possible
to get Josh to agree to a
divorce
• In the end, she leaves
Patrick Dempsey and goes
back to him

15. The Wedding Planner (2001)
• Jennifer Lopez is planning
Matthew McConnaghey’s
wedding
• Her sidekick is her father,
his is his fiance
• His fiance puts them
together a lot and they fall
in love
• In the end, he doesn’t marry
his fiance and comes to her

16. How to lose a guy in 10 days (2003)
• Matthew McConnaghey
makes a bet to go out with
Kate Hudson, who is
writing an article on how to
dump a boyfriend
• Matthew’s sidekicks are the
friends he made a bet with,
Kate’s is the boss who
assigned the task
• They both find out about
what the other was trying
to do and break up
• In the end, they get together