My All Time Favorite Movies and Why

I've decided to list my all time favorite movies and explain why.  Here goes:

#1 Pretty Woman

It is a Cinderella story.  Who doesn't want to be Cinderella?  Who does want to find a tall dark prince and be swept completely away?  Enough said.

#2 Sweet Home Alabama

Love Reese and the guy from the South isn't bad to look at either!  Patrick Dempsy doesn't do it for me!  She chooses right in the end!  My favorite part is the end when he says, "Why would you want to be married to me?"  And she responds, "So I can kiss you whenever I want!" I always cry!

# 3 - 27 Dresses

James Marsden is so adorable!  My favorite parts is when they are standing on the bar singing "Benny and the Jets" and at the end when she goes on the wedding cruise and professes her love for him on the microphone.

#4 Eat Pray Love

Julie Roberts is excellent in this movie.  This is a woman finding herself movie.  Love all the places she visits.  Love the phases of her love life.  This movie made me want to travel, eat and mediate!

#5 Dirty Dancing

Patrick Swazy in tight pants.  What else can I say?  Then there is baby, Frances.  This movie makes you want to visit a resort in the summer time! 

# 6 Road House

Patrick Swazy again.  I love him and his friend who gets the knife in the gut.  Didn't care for the actress who played love interest in this movie.  Patricky Swazy was awesome.  We named our son after this movie - Dalton.

# 7 Family Stone

This one is a family story. There is a love story within the family tragedy story. Diane Keaton again. Love her! Everyone ends up happy in this story, excluding Diane Keaton's character who dies.

# 8 Autumn in New York

If you haven't seen this one, you must! Richard Gere and Wiona Ryder are awesome in this movie. Another forbidden love movie. This one ends badly, but is so good!

# 9 Under the Tuscan Sun

Woman gets divorced. Woman goes to Italy and falls in love with a house and a way of life. Love this movie!

# 10 Devil Wears Prada

This too is kind of a Cinderella Story.  Rags to Riches.  The love story part is kind of messed up, since she doesn't stick with the new guy and ends up with the old guy.  The love interest part really played a minor part.  This was a "finding out who you are" kind of movie.

# 11 Days of Thunder

Young Tom Cruise, what else can I say?  Hot race car driver meets sexy doctor.  A forbidden love story.  Gotta love it!

# 12 Somethings Gotta Give

Love Diane Keaton.  I wish she would have chosen Keano instead of Jack in this one!  Still love the story. You're never too old to find love.

# 13 Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

Love all of the love stories in this one.  My favorite being the one in Greece.

# 14 August Rush

A real tear jerker!  The end is so awesome!  Makes you wonder about how many lost kids there are out there.

# 15 Dear John

A war movie really.  Brings the realities of what happens when men go off to war and leave their girlfriends behind.

# 16 The Last Song

Young love.  Rich boy meets poor girl.  Also the story of dealing with someone dying of cancer.  This is an great movie!

# 17 Hope Floats

This is a story about going back home and finding your long lost high school love and getting back together.  Loved it!

# 18 Momma Mia

The female bonding in this musical was awesome!  Loved all the singing!  Love it all!

# 19 Steel Magnolia

How far would a woman go to have a baby?  In this movie the woman would give her life.  Excellent film and great female bonding.

# 20 Sleepless in Seattle

A film of loneliness and finding love, for both a man and a boy.  Radio talk shows can find love.  Very romantic.

# 21 A League of Their Own

Female bonding movie of all time.  Loved it!  Gena Davis, Rosie and Madonna were great!  Tom Hanks was hilarious!

#22 Jerry Maguire

Tom Cruise.  This is a movie of believing.  Very inspirational. "You had me at hello!"

# 23 Baby Boom

Diane Keaton.  Corporate woman goes country simple and falls in love with a country doctor.  Also falls in love with motherhood.

#24 Legally Blonde  I

A film about women being strong and going after what they want.

# 25 The Wedding Planner

JLo and Mathew McConaughey. Sexy.  Funny.

#26 Fool's Gold

Mathew McConaughey and Kate Hudson.  Sexy Adventure.  Story of refinding love.

# 27 Maid in Manhattan

JLo.  Rags to riches.

# 28 Up Town Girls
Dakota Fanning and Brittney Murphy.  Story of a child bonding with a substitute mom.  The story of girl who has a it and loses it all, but ends up with the love of a child.

# 29 Sleeping with the Enemy

Julia Roberts in a film of survival.  Excellent film.  New Life, new love.  "My Brown Eyed Girl."

# 30 First Wives Club

Socket to 'em sisters!  Getting even with your cheating husbands. Diane, Bette and Goldie!