Without a doubt, 2004 was a very fertile year for girls’ movies, and now in 2024, several of our favorite rom-coms are turning 20 years old, although that’s almost impossible to believe for millennials.
Here are the best, which have become marathon crowd favorites:
1. Diary of a passion
Starring Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling, in a nursing home a man reads to a woman suffering from Alzheimer’s the story of two young people from different social classes who fell in love during the turbulent 1940s and how they broke up. parties and with war.
2. If I were 30
Jenna (Jennifer Gardner), an unpopular girl at school, invites some classmates she admires to her 13th birthday party, leaving out her best and true friend Matt (Mark Ruffalo). In her desire to become one of them and soon become a successful and beautiful woman, she makes a wish to turn thirty, which magically comes true.
Jenna finds out what she’s like now as an adult as the editor of a major magazine, but she doesn’t like what she’s become.
3. Bad girls
After getting used to living in Africa, a young teenager named Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) finds herself in a new jungle when she moves to Illinois, United States. There she attends public school, where she falls in love with the ex-boyfriend of the most popular girl in school.
Cady is welcomed to the top of the social food chain by the elite group of popular girls, ‘The Plastics’, led by the devious Regina George (Rachel McAdams) and her friends Gretchen (Lacey Chabert) and Karen (Amanda Seyfried).
4. Bridget Jones: On the Edge of Reason
In the third part of the saga starring Renee Zellweger, Bridget is in a relationship with the handsome Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) and has left her former boss Daniel (Hugh Grant). The bad thing is that one of Mark’s colleagues destroys their relationship due to different incidents. Daniel reappears and his boss makes them work together, as co-hosts of a TV show. This leads to some trouble on a trip to Thailand, where Bridget ends up in jail.
5. Like it was the first time / 50 first dates
Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore star in this Hawaiian romantic comedy in which a man falls in love with a woman with amnesia who forgets everything the next day, so he must find a way to make her fall in love every day.
6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Joel (Jim Carrey) and Clementine (Kate Winslet) decide to erase their memories of a failed relationship. However, fate brings them together again.
7. Princess pranks
Katie Holmes plays the daughter of the president of the United States in this romantic comedy directed by Forest Whitaker. The story follows the young woman as she falls in love with a student with a secret.
8. The girl next door
Matthew Kidman (Emile Hirsch) falls in love with attractive neighbor Danielle (Elisha Cuthbert). However, he discovers that he has a past as an actor in adult films.
9. The prince and me
Paige Morgan (Julia Stiles) has her future planned: she wants to become a doctor and work for the underprivileged. However, what the young woman does not count on is Eddie (Luke Mumbley), a colleague whom she falls in love with, unaware that he is the crown prince of Denmark.
10. Pride and Prejudice
Although it premiered in 2005, it is only a year away from catching up with others and is one of the most iconic films, even referenced in the 2023 movie ‘Barbie’.
Based on Jane Austen’s novel, this film directed by Joe Wright immerses us in 18th century England. Elizabeth Bennet (Keira Knightley) and Mr. Darcy (Matthew Macfadyen) star in a love story full of prejudice, misunderstandings and passion.
Source: univision
Camila Luna is a writer at Gossipify, where she covers the latest movies and television series. With a passion for all things entertainment, Camila brings her unique perspective to her writing and offers readers an inside look at the industry. Camila is a graduate from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a degree in English and is also a avid movie watcher.
