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12 Romantic Comedies Set to Sweep You Off Your Feet This Year
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Last year greeted us with a barrage of delightful romantic comedies, including some memorable ones from Netflix such as Always Be My Maybe and Someone Great. But don’t worry, 2020 will certainly keep up with that head-over-heels momentum. From classic teen love to wild murder mysteries, there’s plenty of love to go around this year! Lana Condor is back at it in P.S. I Still Love You as the dreamy-eyed Lara Jean of the To All the Boys trilogy. Issa Rae is also having a big year with love on screen, starring across from sexy leads such as Lakeith Stanfield in The Photograph and Kumail Nanjiani in The Lovebirds.
While not all of these movies fall squarely in the romantic-comedy camp, they’re the closest movies we have to fitting the bill in a cinematic landscape sorely lacking in traditional rom-coms.
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The High Note
Keen on another romantic musical comedy? Featuring Dakota Johnson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Ice Cube, and Bill Pullman, The High Note is being marketed as a love story set in the Los Angeles music industry.
Release date: May 8
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Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar
SNL‘s Kristen Wiig and her Bridesmaids cowriter Annie Mumolo star as BFFs in Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar. As the title suggests, the pair hit up Vista Del Mar in Florida, where they get caught up in romance as well as a villain’s diabolical plan to kill everyone in town.
Release date: July 31
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Happiest Season
In Happiest Season, Kristen Stewart plays Abby, a woman planning to propose to her girlfriend (Mackenzie Davis) at her parents’ annual holiday party, only realizing her girlfriend hasn’t come out to her conservative family yet. The cast is pretty stacked, featuring performances from Ana Gasteyer, Dan Levy, Aubrey Plaza, and more.
Release date: Nov. 25
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Marry Me
Right off Hustlers and the Super Bowl, Jennifer Lopez will star in Marry Me as a pop star who finds out that her husband-to-be cheated on her, so she picks a random guy (Owen Wilson) from the audience to wed instead. There’s going to be a soundtrack from Lopez and Colombian singer Maluma as well!
Release date: TBA
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Chemical Hearts
Riverdale’s Lili Reinhart stars in this teen romance film based on Krystal Sutherland’s novel Our Chemical Hearts. She plays a high-school transfer student who meets the editor of her school paper on the first day of school. (And of course, they learn a thing or two about love!)
Release date: TBA
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The Prom
The Prom is yet another one of Ryan Murphy’s upcoming projects on Netflix. This time, he’ll be taking the reins as director for this musical comedy starring Nicole Kidman, James Corden, Meryl Streep, Andrew Rannells, and Keegan-Michael Key. The premise of the story is that a group of musical-theater veterans devote themselves to helping a lesbian couple in Edgewater, IN, go to prom.
Release date: TBA