Top five rom-coms: From old to new there’s one for you

Probably the least well-known of these five, 2011 “Something Borrowed” is my best-kept romcom secret. The film is centered around Rachel (Ginnifer Goodwin), an attorney in New York City celebrating her 30th birthday. Always in the shadow of her best friend Darcy (Kate Hudson) who has everything including Rachel’s crush from law school, Dex (Colin Egglesfield), as her fiance. In one ch...

Most of us know Jennifer Lopez as a singer, dancer and actress. While she has accomplished a lot, this underrated movie rounds out my favorite J-Lo rom-com. Set in San Francisco, Lopez plays Mary, a wedding planner unlucky in love who is looking for a promotion at her job due to a high-profile wedding she is planning. In classic rom-com fashion, the damsel is saved by a mystery man as she’s about...

Everyone loves a good love story, and this 2002 story of Melanie Carmichael and Jake will have you rooting for them the whole way. Melanie (Reese Witherspoon) is an up and coming fashion designer in New York City who is engaged to the senator’s son (Patrick Dempsey). But before she can get married, she needs to get ex-husband (Josh Lucas), who also happens to be her high school sweetheart, to fi...

This 2004 flick is one for the books and throws in some life lessons while sharing this timeless story.   In “13 Going on 30,” Jenna Rink (Jennifer Garner) is about to celebrate her 13th birthday in 1987, but when her supposed friends embarrass her at her birthday, she wishes she could be 30, flirty and thriving. Next thing she knows she is Jenna Rink, a big time magazine editor at Poise Magazin...

My personal favorite, “How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days” is one of those movies that you can watch over and over again and it never gets old.   Released in 2003, the film follows Andi Anderson (Kate Hudson) who is a writer for a fashion lifestyle magazine. She is tasked with writing an article that attempts to crack the code on all the things girls do wrong in a relationship by being assigned t...