You are here:
Home /
Lingerie Events / Never Too Old For Love Movies: 9 Romance Films For Adults
Never Too Old For Love Movies: 9 Romance Films For Adults
A elementary Google hunt for “Never too old…” autocompletes with “…to learn”, “… to play” and “… to stone and roll”.
But what about “…to love”?
Out this week is “Hope Springs,” a film that stars Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones as a integrate looking to reignite their decades-old matrimony with a assistance of a advisor (Steve Carell). For destroyed romantics, it’s a film that shows how adore exists compartment aged age, via aged age and even in annoy of aged age.
In respect of this sentiment, here are 9 cinema — from “It’s Complicated” to “Bridges of Madison Country” — that uncover how adore spans decades, endures kids, and survives both matrimony and divorce.
RELATED: Tommy Lee Jones and Meryl Streep’s Marriage Tips
Loading Slideshow
-
‘It’s Complicated’ (2009)
The adore between Jane (Meryl Streep) and Jake (Alec Baldwin) is rekindled during their son’s college graduation, notwithstanding a dual of them being divorced, and Jake being remarried. The film has other trysts and crushes as well, yet a regretful wish that divorce doesn’t final perpetually is prevalent via a story.
-
‘The Notebook’ (2004)
This film, like “Titanic,” is bookended as a story told by an elder, in this instance by an comparison male in a nursing home reading a story daily to an comparison woman. This film ends adult being one of a many cloying in new history, proof that adore leaves an memorable symbol on those involved, both immediately and peripherally.
-
‘Something’s Gotta Give’ (2003)
An almost-senior-citizen (Jack Nicholson) falls for someone closer to his age (Diane Keaton) instead of a younger women that he’s famous for pursuing, that seems to contend that this attribute will be some-more about adore than lust, and that a male is finally prepared for a genuine attribute in that he has to be exposed and open.
-
‘When Harry Met Sally’ (1989)
In between a friendship/love dance of Harry and Sally are interstitials that have seated couples of aged people who have been in adore for decades.
-
‘Harold Maude’ (1971)
A film that questions who’s truly younger: a teen spooky with death, or a 79-year-old who knows how to live. As they tumble in adore and he proposes marriage, we learn that even in tiny sprints adore can be intensely potent.
-
‘Letters to Juliet’ (2010)
Though immature Sophie, played by Amanda Seyfried, finds loyal adore in a final scenes of a movie, “Letters to Juliet”‘s primary concentration is anticipating Claire’s (Vanessa Redgrave) prolonged mislaid adore Lorenzo. It’s lovely and regretful to see a film take a tact of putting a comparison actor over a starlet, and a rekindling of mislaid adore over a uncertainties and quibbles of a exploding immature relationship.
-
‘The Bridges of Madison County’ (1995)
Another instance of a regretful peculiarity of a created word and a adore story in letters. The event common by Robert Kincaid and Francesca Johnson (played by Eastwood and Streep, respectively) is short, ardent and absolute in duration, yet has durability implications over a rest of both of their lives, portion as a post-mortem doctrine in adore to Francesca’s children, who are in a throws of marital dispute when they find out a law about their mother.
-
‘Grumpy Old Men’ (1993)
Two aged men, John (Jack Lemmon) and Max (Walter Matthau), quarrel over a younger, sexier Ariel (Ann-Margret). This starts as a comedy, and binds that tinge throughout, yet when Max gives adult Ariel to John (even yet John had married Max’s high propagandize swain prolonged ago), we see that genuine adore wins out, and that no hate is value depriving someone their heart.
-
‘Mamma Mia’ (2008)
A daughter (Amanda Seyfried) with 3 intensity dads means a mom (Meryl Streep) who’s lived and desired copiousness in her life (and lived to sing a story of it all). While there is positively anticipation concerned in carrying 3 of a many clean-cut comparison group operative in Hollywood currently courting you, it’s desirable to see that they all came behind to a island in hunt of a adore they all feel they mislaid out on.
Earlier on Moviefone:
Share and Enjoy