Haven’t I heard that story before?It’s the same old song… just

a different beat

It Happened One Night (1934)

• Claudette Colbert runs away from her rich father to be with the man she loves

• Reporter Clark Gable threatens to tell her father where she is, if she doesn’t give him an exclusive story

• Although she hates him, he helps her to go to the man she loves

• In the end, she falls in love with him

Lili (1958)

• Leslie Caron joins a circus, doesn’t like bitter puppet master Mel Ferrer

• His sidekick is his assistant, hers are the puppets

• She is love with the magician, who she doesn’t know is already married

• In the end, she realizes that the puppetmaster loves her

Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)

• Audrey Hepburn is a prostitute, George Peppard a gigolo

• Audrey’s sidekicks: her customers, George, his mistress

• Audrey plans to marry Jose and move to Brazil

• In the end, she and George come together

Overboard (1987)• Goldie Hawn is a rich

bitch who hires poor widower carpenter Kurt Russell ; she is engaged to another person

• Her sidekick is her butler, his is his children

• She gets amnesia and Kurt Russell, to get back, tells her that she is hs wife

• She gets to love him and his children, but then gets her memory back and leaves

• In the end, she comes back to him

Moonstruck (1987)

• Cher meets Nicholas Cage, her fiance’s brother

• Cher’s sidekick is her mother, his is his brother

• She’s engaged to Danny Aiello

• In the end, she comes together with Nicholas

Look Who’s Talking (1989)

• Poor cabdriver John Travolta falls for rich executive Kirstie Alley, who wants nothing to do with him – – she has a child by another man

• His sidekick is the baby, hers is her mother

• When she realizes the father doesn’t love her, she accepts John’s love

When Harry Met Sally (1989)

• Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan meet, don’t like each other

• Billy Crystal has his sidekick Bruno Kirby, Meg Ryan has Carrie Fischer

• Both Billy and Meg go out with different people

• At the end, they come together

You’ve Got Mail (1998)• Meg Ryan and Tom

Hanks meet (in person), don’t like each other

• Meg has her sidekicks (employees), Tom has Dabney Coleman (father) and Dave Chapelle (employee)

• Tom’s girlfriend is Parker Posey, Meg’s boyfriend is Greg Kinnear

• Finally at the end, they come together

Sleepless in Seattle (1993)

• Meg Ryan writes to Tom Hanks, but he doesn’t want to meet her

• Meg has her sidekick (Rosie O’Donnell), Tom’s is played by Rob Reiner

• Tom goes out with Barbara Garrick, Meg with Bill Pullman

• In the end, they come together

While You Were Sleeping (1995)

• Bill Pullman meets Sandra Bullock, who claims to be engaged to his brother (who is in a coma) and doesn’t trust her

• Bill’s “sidekick” is his father, Sandra’s is her boss

• Sandra almost marries Bill’s brother

• In the end, she and Bill get together

My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997)

• Julia Roberts is best friends with Dermot Mulroney

• Her (male) “sidekick” is her boss, Rupert Everett, his is his fiance, Cameron Diaz

• She tries to break up their relationship to win him for herself, but only gets him angry at her when she breaks up their engagement

• In the end, she restores the friendship by bringing them back together. The film ends with him married to his sidekick and her dancing with her sidekick

Legally Blonde (2001)

• Reese Witherspoon meets Luke Wilson, but is trying to win back Matthew Davis

• Her sidekick is her dog, or maybe Jennifer Coolidge; his sidekick is his boss, Victor Garber

• She ignores Luke while trying to win back her ex

• In the end, she realizes that Luke is the one for her

Sweet Home Alabama (2002)

• Reese Witherspoon is separated from Josh Lucas and wants to marry Patrick Dempsey

• Her sidekick is an old friend, his is the entire town

• She tries everything possible to get Josh to agree to a divorce

• In the end, she leaves Patrick Dempsey and goes back to him

The Wedding Planner (2001)

• Jennifer Lopez is planning Matthew McConnaghey’s wedding

• Her sidekick is her father, his is his fiance

• His fiance puts them together a lot and they fall in love

• In the end, he doesn’t marry his fiance and comes to her

How to lose a guy in 10 days (2003)

• Matthew McConnaghey makes a bet to go out with Kate Hudson, who is writing an article on how to dump a boyfriend

• Matthew’s sidekicks are the friends he made a bet with, Kate’s is the boss who assigned the task

• They both find out about what the other was trying to do and break up

• In the end, they get together