A Lonely Woman's Favorite: The Rom-Com

So in honor, or perhaps in disdain for that fast approaching day that starts with a "V", we have compiled a list of the LW's Top 10 Romantic Comedies Of All Time.  It's no secret that rom-coms are obviously a LW's favorite film genre, but not every film possesses the qualities that draw a true LW in. Check out our list below and see if you agree. Any movies you'd add? Tell us in the comments!

10. Sweet Home Alabama. It's got southern charm coming out of its ears, McDreamy, and Reese Witherspoon! Plus how often does a career driven LW get to choose between 2 guys?? Oh and don't forget the scene where she picks any engagement ring she wants from Tiffany's! Le sigh.

9. Mystic Pizza. It was Julia Roberts' break out role and really hit the hard questions! Can a poor girl from the wrong side of the tracks who works in a lowly pizza parlor really find love with a dashing Harvard boy with a name like Windsor? Will their love survive against the odds? We've certainly never seen this plot line before. Oh and Matt Damon's teen self is in it...yummy!

8. The Wedding Singer. How could you not love a guy who gives singing lessons to sweet old ladies AND only wants to marry the love of his life??? If only Robby could make Julia see that Glenn is not the one, all would be right! So, last minute flight to stop the wedding? Another very original rom-com element. And any dude that says he wants to grow old with us and let us hold the remote control is A-OK in our LW book!

7. Dirty Dancing. Nobody puts baby in a corner...unless you're a muscly Patrick Swayze and I landed in that corner because we just nailed the final lift at the Labor Day picnic. Icon status. "I had the time of my life" watching this movie. Enough said.

6. While You Were Sleeping. What LW rom-com list would be complete without a nod to our recently rejoined club member (screw you Jesse James!) and all around great gal, Sandra Bullock! This is a tale of unrequited love amidst the subway, when through a twist of fate she's mistaken for her crush's fiance and shenanigans ensue! This one really does have the balance of comedy and romance. Plus mid-90s Independence Day era Bill Pullman is pretty cute too :)

5. Sleepless in Seattle. Tom Hanks. Meg Ryan. Climactic meeting atop the Empire State Building in a nod to the classic An Affair to Remember. This movie practically has LWs salivating at the utter romance of a dashing widower finding love again through a chance call-in to a national radio show. All of which is prompted by his precocious young son. Nora Ephron, you've spoken to our LW heart again. There's way too many "awww" moments and longing sighs to count from this movie!

4. Say Anything. John Hughes really captured the voice of an era throughout the 1980s, and while so many of his films are iconic, this one tugs at just the right heartstrings! What LW hasn't fantasized that a young John Cusack would stand outside her window blasting a Peter Gabriel love song just to say the feelings he can't? It's swoon worthy overload!

3. Notting Hill. Julia makes her second appearance on the countdown with yet another "can love overcome their differences?" story.  This time however she's a movie star and the strapping Hugh Grant is the English any man who's caught her eye. And lest we forget her famous line that makes this movie so LW worthy: "I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her." You go get her Hugh!

2. Bridget Jones's Diary. I bet you LWs were getting worried you hadn't seen this on the list yet. Well never fear, we save the best for the end! Bridget Jones is the epitomic lonely woman so perhaps this movie speaks to us more than any other. From her struggles with unavailable men (Hugh Grant, again) to her nights with pints of ice cream and singing Celine Dion songs loudly and alone in her apartment, it was as if we were watching a home movie! But in the end, she snags her man (in some very unflattering granny panties I might add!) and reminds us that there is hope for us still!

And Finally....

1. Love Actually. Perhaps a surprising choice on the surface, but a wise one just the same. This movie has key essential elements: Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, a wedding, a hot foreign guy with six pack abs, Dido on the soundtrack, British accents, and of course LOVE. Lots of it, in all shapes and kinds. From mothers to daughters, fathers to sons, brothers and sisters, best friends, new romances, old romances, this movie has got it all. It warms our heart to see that love comes in many forms, and in doing so reminds us that maybe we aren't so lonely after all...