Return to Me - I am almost embarrassed to put this rather formulaic romantic comedy on my top ten, but the fact is that the film was that good. David Duchovny and Minne Driver made a convincing couple and the movie is filled with humor that doesn't feel forced or tacked on. The people in this movie are real and it makes the movie work on a level that few romantic comedies can achieve. Charming is an awful word to use when describing a movie, but it really fits this one. Blatantly self depreciating and filled with comic touches intended to remind you that you shouldn't take any of this too seriously.
Girl power has three new faces.
Nurse Betty - It is hard to go wrong with Rene Zellweger and Morgan Freeman as leads in a film and this movie certainly doesn't disappoint. The lines between reality and fantasy blur for both main characters in this movie. There is something desperate in the fantasy world that both characters create and yet it is something we can all relate to. Maybe, but I can't get away from the fact that no movie made me laugh louder or more often that this overlooked homage to the Looney Tunes of the 50's. The Disney execs hated it and spent time and money promoting 102 Dalmatians while this movie was hardly mentioned.