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Chick Flicks A Guy Can Stomach
Occasionally men and women will want to watch a movie together and sometimes that mean chick flick. According to Wikipedia, a chick flick is a movie which is designed or considered to appeal mainly to women, and generally focusing more on romance or relationships
These are a few movies that men can watch without laughing for the wrong reason. Occasionally a guy is going to have to watch a Chick Flick.
1) When Harry Met Sally (1989)
Directed by: Rob Reiner
Starring: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher
As soon as Crystal spits the grapes against the car window, you know this movie is going to be okay for a guy. Probably the best of the chick flicks a guy can watch. Very funny.
Rated: 7.7 out of 10 at IMDB
2) Return to Me (2000)
Directed by: Bonnie Hunt
Starring: David Duchovny, Minnie Driver, Carroll O'Connor , Bonnie Hunt , James Belushi
Very funny story. Hunt and Belushi are great as is the rest of cast. Basic story, man's wife is killed in a car accident, donates heart to a woman in need. Later falls in love with a woman who happened to get the heart. Pass the bottled water, please.
Rated: 6.7 out of 10 at IMDB
3) Six Days Seven Nights (1998)
Directed by: Ivan Reitman
Starring: Harrison Ford, Anne Heche
One of those relationship comedies. Harrison Ford explains how a woman can get a man excited:"You know how a women gets a man excited? She shows up. That's it. We're guys, we're easy." Hey, its got pirates and lots of scenery.
Rated: 5.5 out of 10 at IMDB
4) Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch
Starring: James Stewart, Margaret Sullivan, Frank Morgan
Yes Oz fans, the Wizard, Frank Morgan stars in this movie. "You've Got Mail" is a remake of this original "weeper." The romantic comedy has new sales clerk Margaret Sullivan hating James Stewart, the senior sales clerk who as it turns out is her pen-pal lover. The story ends with the Christmas rush and as such can even be a "Christmas Movie" is you like.
Rated: 7.9 out of 10 at IMDB
5) You've Got Mail (1998)
Directed by Nora Ephron
Starring: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan
Hanks is owns a chain of discount book stores. Ryan owns the "Shop Around the Corner" Hanks destroys the business and still gets the girl in the end.
Rated: 6.2 out of 10 at IMDB (I think the critics were getting tired of Meg Ryan)
6) What's Up, Doc? (1972)
Directed by: Peter Bogdanovich
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn
Streisand before she got too big and political. She doesn't sing in it.
Rated: 7.3 out of 10 at IMDB