Top 10 Movies to Watch with Your Bestie on “Galentine’s” Day

By Movieguide® Contributor

Valentine’s Day has slowly become the holiday to hang with the girls! Regardless of relationship status, many gals are now opting for a “Galentines” party rather than the traditional date night with their significant other. We’ve lined up some of our favorite rom-coms and sweet flicks for you and your besties to enjoy during this season of love. These tried-and-true classics are sure to make you swoon this Valentine’s Day!

LA LA LAND

Quality:

****

Content:

-2 Extreme caution for older teenagers and adults.

LA LA LAND is a musical about the lives of two dreamers in Los Angeles who fall in love. LA LA LAND is a fun tribute to the Golden Age of Hollywood about the dangers of putting one’s dreams above loving relationships with other people. Some strong foul language warrants caution, however.

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YOU'VE GOT MAIL

Quality:

****

Content:

-1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.

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SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE

Quality:

****

Content:

-1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.

SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE, an eight-year-old boy in Seattle calls up a national radio talk show on Christmas Eve to discuss his recently widowed father's problems while Annie, in Baltimore, hears the broadcast and begins to daydream about the boy's father. The film is well crafted, although not outstanding, and contains competent acting on the part of Hanks, Ryan, and, in particular, Ross Malinger, who plays eight-year-old Jonah.

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A WALK TO REMEMBER

Quality:

***

Content:

+1 Moderately questionable elements. (Discernment required for young children.)

In A WALK TO REMEMBER, troubled teenaged boy, Landon, played by Shane West, finds his life is changed as he falls in love with Jamie Sullivan, a Christian pastor’s daughter, played by pop star Mandy Moore. As described by Landon, both Jamie’s exemplary strength of character and her faith in him saved him because she was the only one who believed in him.

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THE LAST SONG

Quality:

****

Content:

-1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.

THE LAST SONG is a touching story of Ronnie, a rebellious teenage girl, who spends the summer with her estranged father, Steve, only to learn family secrets as well as forgiveness. Starring Miley Cyrus, THE LAST SONG is a touching, emotionally gripping movie, but caution needs to be exercised with younger children for some serious themes.

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MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING

Quality:

***

Content:

-1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.

MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING is a big fat independent movie that’s a celebration of one American woman’s ethnic heritage, including the remnants of her family’s Greek Orthodox Christian faith. The nominal Christian worldview in this movie is spoiled by a brief, implied sexual interlude, passionate kissing, some foul language, and abundant use of alcohol.

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CHRISTIAN MINGLE

Quality:

***

Content:

+4 Biblical, usually Christian, worldview, with no questionable elements whatsoever.

CHRISTIAN MINGLE is a comedy about a successful advertising executive who becomes smitten by a Christian man who works at his father’s construction company. Much of CHRISTIAN MINGLE is laugh-out-loud funny. It has a great heart and a very good evangelistic message.

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MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS

Quality:

****

Content:

-1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.

Set in 1957, MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS tells the story of a widowed cleaning woman in London who gets a chance to visit Paris and buy a fancy dress from Christian Dior, where she causes a ruckus. MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS is a charming, funny, exquisite comedy where bold human kindness wins the day and transforms people’s lives for the better and contains very little objectionable content.

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FATHER OF THE BRIDE (1991)

Quality:

****

Content:

-1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.

Returning from architectural study in Rome, 22-year-old Annie Banks announces her engagement to a youth she met abroad. The news wreaks havoc on soon-to-be FATHER OF THE BRIDE in this updated modernization of Vincente Minnelli's 1950 MGM classic. Refreshingly, FATHER OF THE BRIDE affirms old-fashioned family values, though there is one exclamatory profanity and sexual innuendo. Aside from these flaws, FATHER OF THE BRIDE is a heart-warming father-daughter story that reflects family life in the 1990's.

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THE WEDDING PLANNER

Quality:

***

Content:

-1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.

Rising Hollywood star Jennifer Lopez plays the title role in THE WEDDING PLANNER, a romantic comedy set in San Francisco where a no-nonsense wedding planner unknowingly falls in love with the groom of her rich new client. THE WEDDING PLANNER is a breezy, relatively tame romantic comedy that contains, however, a significant number of mostly mild obscenities and profanities and a couple light off-color jokes about a nude statue.

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