Valentine’s Day movies that spark romance

Alex Pineda

As Valentine’s Day falls perfectly on a Friday this year, it’s a great night to stay in instead of going out into overpopulated movie theaters and restaurants. So cozy up with good company and enjoy a great Valentine’s Day with these films, and who knows maybe some chocolate and candy hearts?

"(500) Days of Summer" adds a twist to love stories. Photo from foxsearchlight.com/500daysofsummer.
“(500) Days of Summer” adds a twist to love stories. Photo from foxsearchlight.com

5. “500 Days of Summer” (2009):

Fox Searchlight and director Marc Webb bring together Joseph Gordon Levitt and Zooey Deschanel as Tom and Summer. To be completely clear, this is not a love story, just a story about love. Summer is a young woman who doesn’t believe in relationships, boyfriends or love in general. Tom admires her beauty and words and as they become more than friends, he learns how complicated love really can be, especially with a girl like Summer.

 

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Photo from 2sfilms.whoiskenjackson.com

4.”P.S. I Love You” (2007):

Director Richard LaGravenese creates a tragic, tear jerking love story between a widow named Holly, played by Hilary Swank, and her dead husband, Gerry, played by Gerard Butler. After Gerry’s death, he leaves ten different letters and messages for Holly to find. Her family and friends fear that these gestures are doing Holly harm but Gerry left them to help her ease back into a happy life and to remind her that he will always love her.

 

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Photo from warnerbros.com

3. “He’s Just Not That Into You” (2009):

Director Ken Kwapis brings us a romantic comedy that attacks it all. Grown men and women explain their relationships and feelings as they go through the emotions of figuring out the subtle signs the opposite sex send. A tangle of relationships are in this film played by stars like Jennifer AnistonBradley CooperScarlett Johansson and Ginnifer Goodwin.

 

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John Cusack became iconic for the classic boom-box scene. Photo from creativecommons.org

2. “Say Anything” (1989):

The brainy Diane Court, played by Ione Skye, and the noble nobody Lloyd Dobler, played by John Cusack, finally meet in a turn of events after their senior graduation. Lloyd asks Diane on a date to a party that night and the two become infatuated in each other only to remember that the summer will be their last together since Diane will be going off to school. As hardships between Diane and her father grow so does her relationship with Lloyd. Only to leave us with one question as the fall nears, what happens next?

"The Notebook" began as a Nicholas Sparks novel. Photo from warnerbros.com.
“The Notebook” began as a Nicholas Sparks novel. Photo from warnerbros.com.

1. “The Notebook” (2004):

It’s not Valentine’s Day without this romance! Beauty Rachel McAdams plays Allie Hamilton, a young woman from a high class family who falls in love with Noah Calhoun form a lower class, played by Ryan Gosling, in the early 1940s. This is a classic romance about the significance of and impact of first love and how long it affects ongoing life. Although sappy and clearly a chick flick, it doesn’t disappoint.