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(C) Georgia Rule

Genre: Romance
MPAA Rating: R     Audience: Mature High Schooler
Minow rule: If Hector Elizondo barely makes an appearance in a Garry Marshall film, watch out.

Or, I should say, don't watch.

Marshall wisely does his best to include the talented Eli...

» Read Review Posted on Wednesday May 9, 2007

(B) Ghost Town

Genre: Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13     Audience: High School
Bertram Pincus, D.D.S. sees dead people. And he's very crabby about it. Bertram (Ricky Gervais, creator and star of the original British version of "The Office") doesn't much like any kind of peo...
» Read Review Posted on Tuesday December 30, 2008

(C) Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

Genre: Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13     Audience: High School
"Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" feels like ghosts of movies past, with a been-there, seen-that feeling that goes far beyond its familiar appropriation of the structure of "A Christmas Carol." It is no...
» Read Review Posted on Tuesday September 22, 2009

(B+) Gnomeo & Juliet

Genre: Romance
MPAA Rating: G     Audience: All Ages
What's in a gnome? Shakespeare's tragic romance about the children of warring families has been adapted countless times (a high point: "West Side Story;" a low point: » Read Review Posted on Thursday February 10, 2011

(D) Good Luck Chuck

Genre: Romance
MPAA Rating: R     Audience: Mature High Schooler
At age 10, following an awkward Spin the Bottle encounter, a little goth girl puts a hex on Charlie so that he will be surrounded by love but never find it himself. But it is the audience who will ...
» Read Review Posted on Tuesday January 15, 2008

(B-) A Good Year

Genre: Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13     Audience: Middle School
Plonk is a Britishism for cheap, low-quality wine -- not undrinkable, by any means, just nothing special. As much could be said for this film, lightly based on the helium-weight plonk of a best-se...
» Read Review Posted on Wednesday November 8, 2006

(B-) The Great Gatsby

Genre: Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13     Audience: High School
Kids, here's a hint: Don't think you can pass a sophomore English exam on F. Scott Fitzgerald's jazz age classic and high school reading list perennial by watching this movie.  While this version ...
» Read Review Posted on Thursday May 9, 2013

(B) Gulliver's Travels: the Animated Feature

Genre: Romance
MPAA Rating: R     Audience: Kindergarten - 3rd Grade
In the early days of animation, Disney's biggest rival was the studio run by the Fleischer brothers, whose Betty Boop, Popeye, and Out of the Inkwell cartoons were very popular. Their first featur...
» Read Review Posted on Wednesday December 22, 2010



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