![]() Starring Roberts and frequent collaborator George Clooney, the premise goes as follows: a couple that has been bitterly divorced for 20 years are forced to patch things up when their daughter Lily (Kaitlyn Dever) graduates from law school and gets hastily engaged while on vacation in Bali. Perhaps it’s the paucity of good contemporary rom-coms talking, but Ticket to Paradise is a wonderful romp that satisfies our cravings and just might restore our faith in the genre. Read more: 20 Romantic Comedies That Put a New Spin on an Old Genre 6. Roberts brings her usual charm, even if the viewing experience, for some, is compromised. He wins her affection through various, admittedly somewhat creepy tactics. Roberts plays an unhappy American living in Venice who gets wooed by Allen’s depressed divorcee. It’s an homage to classic Hollywood musicals, full of borderline (but not quite) insufferable characters. The movie follows the complicated lives of a massive upper-class family playing out across New York, Paris, and Venice. In this case-his first and only musical rom-com-there are many (see, in addition to Roberts: Alan Alda, Edward Norton, Drew Barrymore, Goldie Hawn, Natalie Portman, Natasha Lyonne). And there are others who continue to appreciate his body of work and the performances his films have brought forth on the screen. There are many who have sworn off Woody Allen’s movies as allegations of sexual assault have long swirled around the filmmaker. Read more: The 15 Best Romantic Comedies from the Early 2000s 13. Roberts, entertaining as always though, puts the “Crown” in Larry Crowne. While a heartwarming and sentimental film on the surface, its humor feels painfully forced and the romance between Mercedes and Larry is lackluster and devoid of chemistry. Roberts plays Larry’s speech class teacher, Mercedes Tainot (a stellar name, I’ll give it that), an incessantly unhappy and borderline alcoholic woman in a loveless marriage who-shocker!-begins to develop feelings for Larry. Among the many unrealistic things that occur throughout its 98-minute runtime-like all of his classmates coming together to help him move out of his house-a true highlight is when Larry gets asked to join a scooter gang spearheaded by Wilmer Valderama. Mother’s Day (2016)ĭirected and co-written by Tom Hanks, this comedy tells the story of Hanks’ titular middle-aged man who decides to enroll in community college after being fired from his job at a Walmart-like store. Read more: 20 of the Sweetest, Funniest, and Most Outrageous Meet-Cutes in Rom-Com History 16. To celebrate the occasion, TIME watched and ranked every entry in the expansive Julia Roberts Romantic Comedy Cinematic Universe. 21, marks Roberts’ first rom-com leading role in nearly 20 years (her words, not mine), so there’s no better time to reflect on her monumental contributions to the genre. ![]() Ticket to Paradise, which hits theaters on Oct. It has long been declared that the romantic comedy-at one point the most powerful vehicle for Hollywood actors-has been dead since the 2000s, but Roberts, like Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum with The Lost City earlier this year, has thankfully returned to breathe new life into the form with director Ol Parker’s Ticket to Paradise, opposite another icon of the genre, George Clooney. Roberts has been commanding the screen for well over 30 years, and while she excels in dramas like Brockovich and thrillers like Conspiracy Theory, no type of film has given the spotlight to her charisma and star power better than the rom-com. ![]() Above all, however, Roberts made a name for herself through her decades-spanning work in the beloved, albeit sometimes disparaged, romantic comedy genre.Įver since her star-making turns in Mystic Pizza (1988) and Pretty Woman (1990), she has proven an essential ingredient in turning seemingly basic and cheesy stories into fully engrossing, highly successful films. A movie star in every sense of the word, she has a graceful, warm, and magnetic presence that permeates all of her roles, from Steel Magnolias to the Oceans trilogy to Mona Lisa Smile and Erin Brockovich, which earned her an Academy Award in 2001. It’s hard to overstate how much of a Hollywood icon Julia Roberts is.
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