Cat's Canon of Rom Coms
By: Catherine Krummey
(in alphabetical order)
Okay, so some of these aren’t exactly brilliant.
And some of these don’t tidily fit in the romantic comedy genre. They might be better described as romantic dramedies. My qualifiers are that there is some kind of romantic relationship at the center and there are comedic elements to the plot.
It is safe to assume that I’ve seen literally hundreds of romantic comedies. For the sake of (some) brevity, I’ve seen all of these at least five times. Some A LOT more than five times.
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01Gil Junger
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02Anne Fletcher
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03Marc Webb
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04Jean-Pierre Jeunet
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05Rob Reiner
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06Woody Allen
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07James L. Brooks
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08Sam Mendes
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09Gurinder Chadha
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10Jeremiah S. Chechik
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11Blake Edwards
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12Sharon Maguire
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13Lasse Hallström
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14Amy Heckerling
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15Cameron Crowe
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16Andy Tennant
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17Bronwen Hughes
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18Nicholas Stoller
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19Mike Newell
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20Lawrence Kasdan
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21Zach Braff
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22Nanette Burstein
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23Hal Ashby
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24Stephen Frears
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25Nancy Meyers
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26Donald Petrie
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27Curtis Hanson
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28Jason Reitman
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29Robert Luketic
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30Richard Curtis
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31Michael Hoffman
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32Norman Jewison
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33Baz Luhrmann
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34Marc Lawrence
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35Gary David Goldberg
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36P.J. Hogan
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37George Cukor
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38Raja Gosnell
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39Michael Hoffman
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40George Cukor
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41Howard Deutch
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42Garry Marshall
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43Joe Wright
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44Ben Stiller
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45William Wyler
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46Garry Marshall
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47Cameron Crowe
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48Woody Allen
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49Ang Lee
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50Michael Patrick King
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51John Madden
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52Anand Tucker
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53Andrew Adamson
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54Mark Tarlov
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55Nora Ephron
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56Nancy Meyers
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57Tom Vaughan
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58Marc Forster
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59Adam Shankman
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60Frank Coraci
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61Adrienne Shelly
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62Rob Reiner
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63Nora Ephron
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64Kevin Smith