Romance

D.E.B.S.

  • Title: D.E.B.S.
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Giving off strong Disney Channel TV-movie vibes, 2004’s D.E.B.S. offers a campy teen spy story most notable for its central Romeo and Juliet star-crossed lovers romance being set between two young women on opposite sides of the law. Sara Foster stars as Amy Bradshaw, the star pupil at the clandestine academy for young women (recruited from secret SAT questions designed to uncover those with the aptitude for espionage) training them in Discipline, Energy, Beauty, and Strength.

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Fifty Shades of Wuthering Heights

  • Title: Wuthering Heights (2026)
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Emerald Fennell‘s adaptation of Emily Brontë‘s Wuthering Heights focuses primarily on the incestuous and destructive relationship between spoiled aristocrat Cathy (Margot Robbie and Charlotte Mellington) and her boorish and emotionally abusive adopted brother Heathcliff (Jacob Elordi and Owen Cooper) who her louse of a father (Martin Clunes) rescued one night on one of his drunken benders (providing someone to take out his aggression on over the coming years).

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Sisterhood, Inc.

  • Title: Sisterhood, Inc.
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Despite equal parts makeover and romcom, Sisterhood, Inc. is no She’s All That. After being ousted from the company she founded, and desperately in need of a project, Megan (Rachael Leigh Cook) recruits a board of life coaches (Rosa Gilmore, Steve Schirripa, Jackie Hoffman, and Leonidas Gulaptis) to fix the life of her screw-up younger sister Izzy (Daniella Monet).

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Champagne Problems

  • Title: Champagne Problems
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Following your basic setup of a career woman finding the perfect guy in an unexpected place (which just happens to be the most romantic city on the planet), at Christmas no less, Minka Kelly stars as an executive sent to Paris to acquire a renowned champagne brand only to fall a dreamy guy (Tom Wozniczka) in a magical French bookstore who turns out to be the founder’s (Thibault de Montalembert) son. While not making googly-eyes, Sydney (Kelly) works to out-sell the other competitors (Sean Amsing, Flula Borg, and Astrid Whettnall).

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Is This Thing On?

  • Title: Is This Thing On?
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Loosely inspired by the life of British comedian John Bishop, Will Arnett stars as a newly-separated fortysomething who discovers a way to talk through his issues by doing stand-up comedy. At times the film is a little cute for its own good such as how Alex (Arnett) falls into comedy while high, the manner in which his secret is discovered, and the unavoidable kid performances and parties all movies like this seem contracted to contain.

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