Insights from the Cinematic World: _Romance

How to Be Single

These days, in cities big and small, there’s a nightlife rife with girls’ nights out, singles’ bars, online dating and one-night stands arranged on apps—no romance required. Today’s singles aren’t necessarily looking for Ms. or Mr. Right, or drowning their sorrows in their lonely bachelor/ette pads.

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The Choice

Based on the emotional and inspiring novel by literary superstar Nicholas Sparks, The Choice chronicles the power of love from a young couple’s rocky first meeting to a life-long romance

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Crimson Peak

From the imagination of director Guillermo del Toro comes a gothic romance starring Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston and Charlie Hunnam. In Crimson Peak, they will discover the power that love has to make monsters of us all.

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Freeheld

Based on true story Freeheld is about a decorated New Jersey police detective, Laurel is diagnosed with cancer and wants to leave her hard-earned pension to her domestic partner, Stacie. However the county officials, Freeholders, prevent Laurel from doing this.

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Learning to Drive

Patricia Clarkson and Ben Kingsley star in this feel-good, coming of (middle) age comedy about a mismatched pair who help each other overcome life’s road blocks —festival circuit favorite Learning to Drive, which was chosen the Audience Award runner-up at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.

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Trainwreck

Since she was a little girl, it’s been drilled into Amy’s (Amy Schumer) head by her rapscallion of a father (Colin Quinn) that monogamy isn’t realistic. Now a magazine writer, Amy lives by that credo.

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Aloha

In Aloha, a celebrated military contractor (Bradley Cooper) returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs – the US Space program in Honolulu, Hawaii – and reconnects with a long-ago love (Rachel McAdams) while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog (Emma Stone) assigned to him.

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Fifty Shades of Grey

On the surface, “Fifty Shades of Grey” explores the burgeoning relationship between enigmatic 27-year-old billionaire Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) and sexually uninitiated college senior Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson).

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The last 5 Years

The last 5 Years is a musical chronicling a love affair and marriage taking place over a five year period. Jamie Wallerstein (Jeremy Jordan) is a young, talented up and coming novelist who falls in love with Cathy Hiatt (Anna Kendrick), a struggling actress.

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Love, Rosie

Rosie and Alex have been best friends since they were 5, so they couldn’t possibly be right for one another…or could they? When it comes to love, life and making the right choices, these two are their own worst enemies.

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Serena

North Carolina mountains at the end of the 1920s – George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newly-weds, begin to build a timber empire. Serena soon proves herself to be equal to any man: overseeing loggers, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving a man’s life in the wilderness.

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