Showing posts with label romcom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label romcom. Show all posts

Sunday, December 27, 2009

LOVE IS ALL AROUND (FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL, 1994)



"In the name of the father, the son, and the holy spigot. Spirit!"
- Father Gerald

Hugh Grant, before teaming up with Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock first made this britromcom about a man named Charles (Grant) along with his friends wondering about love and marriage while attending the titular events. He then meets the so-called perfect woman named Carrie (Andie MacDowell) with strings attached. Wet Wet Wet group sung the popular theme of the movie, Love Is All Around.


LOVE IS ALL AROUND
sung by: Wet Wet Wet

I feel it in my fingers
I feel it in my toes
Love is all around me
And so the feeling grows

It's written on the wind
It's everywhere I go, oh yes it is
So if you really love me
Come on and let it show

You know I love you
I always will
My mind's made up
By the way that I feel
There's no beginning
There'll be no end
'Cause on my love you can depend

I see your face before me
As I lay on my bed
I kinda get to thinking
Of all the things you said, oh yes I did

You gave your promise to me
And I gave mine to you
I need someone beside me
In everything I do, oh yes I do

You know I love you
I always will
My mind's made up
By the way that I feel
There's no beginning
There'll be no end
'Cause on my love you can depend

Got to keep it moving
Oh, it's written in the wind
Oh everywhere I go, yeah, oh well
So if you really love me, love me, love me

Come on and let it show
Come on and let it show
Come on and let it come on
And let it (come and let it show, baby)
Come on, come on, come on let it show
Baby, come on and let it show
Come on and let it show
Baby, come on and let it show

Friday, October 23, 2009

GOODBYE GIRL (NEIL SIMON'S THE GOODBYE GIRL, 1977)


"I thought you said you were decent." - Paula McFadden
"I am decent. I also happen to be naked." - Elliot Garfield

My favorite romcom film of all time, Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl has a winning formula. A great chemistry between the two leads & even the supporting cast and definitely its sparkling screenplay by Neil Simon. Paula McFadden (Marsha Mason) and Elliot Garfield (Richard Dreyfuss) play an individual, her with a daughter to raise and him with a career to make, who forced to become roommates. The battle of the sexes ensues between the two until they find themselves falling in love. David Gates of the group Bread sung the feel-good theme.

The ending is a knockout for the hopeless romantics.


GOODBYE GIRL
sung by: David Gates

All your life you've waited for love to come and stay
And now that I have found you, you must not slip away
I know it's hard believin' the words you've heard before
But darlin' you must trust them just once more

'Cause baby Goodbye doesn't mean forever
Let me tell you goodbye doesn't mean
We'll never be together again
If you wake up and I'm not there
I won't be long away
'Cause the things you do my Goodbye Girl
Will bring me back toyou

I know you've been taken, afraid to hurt again
You fight the love you feel for me instead of givin' in
But I can wait forever, for helpin' you to see
That I was meant for you and you for me

So remember Goodbye doesn't mean forever
Let me tell you goodbye doesn't mean
We'll never be together again
Though we may be so far apart you still will have my heart
So forget your past my Goodbye Girl
'Cause now you're home at last