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5 Binge Worthy Movies to Watch by Alyssa Sheffield
These five movies that will make you want to curl up in your favorite baggysweater and drink that pumpkin spice latte while you watch.
RUNAWAY BRIDE (1999)
Set in the Maryland countryside, the autumn vibes in the movie are lovely. Julia Roberts plays a Maggie Carpenter, a small-town girl with big dreams and commitment issues. She runs her father’s hardware store but wants to be an industrial designer, and also has a unfortunate habit of leaving grooms at the altar. Maybe for critics this movie was just the somewhat lesser follow up to Robert’s and Gere’s amazing chemistry in Pretty Woman, but for me it will always be a classic feel-good romantic comedy that stands on its own, with a lot more depth to the characters than some give it credit for.
WHEN HARRY MET SALLY (1989)
While this movie spans several years in New York there are a lot of scenes that showcase the beauty of New York City in the fall. (Just look at the poster). An absolute classic romantic comedy starring Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal that feels timeless despite things like the scene where Carrie Fisher’s character pulls a Rolodex out of her purse as her ‘Little Black Book.’
LEGALLY BLONDE (2001)
Reese Witherspoon as the bubbly, determined Elle Woods never fails to inspire, especially as she brings her own Beverly Hills flair to dressing for the New England weather as she starts her first semester at Harvard. “She wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Warner Huntington III. But there is one thing stopping him (Matthew Davis) from proposing: She is too blond. Elle rallies all of her resources and gets into Harvard, determined to win him back.”
SWEET NOVEMBER (2001)
The title alone qualifies it to be on this list. Charlize Theron and Keanu Reeves star in this movie set in San Francisco about a workaholic who falls for an eccentric woman. “Nelson Moss (Keanu Reeves) and Sara Deever (Charlize Theron) have nothing in common except an hour spent in DMV hell. Intrigued by each other, but not quite ready to commit, they settle on a rather unconventional courtship: a one-month trial, after which they’ll go their separate ways.”
MONA LISA SMILE (2003)
Set in 1953, Katherine Watson (played by Julia Roberts) is a free-spirited UCLA graduate who comes to teach at Wellesley College, a women-only school where the students are torn between the repressive norms of that period and their longing for more opportunity and individuality.
