Celebrate Valentine’s Day with these KrisWorld offerings that will put you in a romantic mood. Ride the emotional roller coaster and experience heartbreak and euphoria.
We Live in Time
Figure skater-turned-chef Almut (Florence Pugh) and divorced cereal sales representative Tobias (Andrew Garfield) have a surprise encounter that changes both their lives. The movie unfolds in a non-linear fashion, and we glimpse snapshots of their life together, from their courtship to the birth of their daughter Ella (Grace Delaney).
Almut is diagnosed with ovarian cancer. While in treatment, she receives an invitation to compete in the prestigious Bocuse d’Or culinary competition in Italy. However, it conflicts with the date that has been set for her and Tobias’ wedding, causing tension between them.
We Live in Time is directed by John Crowley, who collaborated with Garfield early in the actor’s career on Boy A and helmed the Oscar-nominated Brooklyn. This movie includes elements that are familiar to fans of ‘weepies’, or sentimental dramas, including a character having a major illness. However, it transcends those trappings by utilising its stars’ palpable chemistry to its advantage. The movie contains resonant, relatable moments that make it feel more grounded than your typical movie star-driven romance. Pugh and Garfield deliver convincing and understated performances, lending the film a true-to-life authenticity.
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Almut and Tobias are brought together in a surprise encounter that changes their lives. Through snapshots of their life together, a difficult truth is revealed that rocks its foundation.
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Follow Your Heart
Journey to ancient China in this romantic drama about unlikely lovers. Jiang Xin Bai (Leo Luo Yun Xi) is the prince of Yue Jiang and an officer of the detective bureau. Often regarded as aloof and arrogant, he has exceptional observational and deductive skills but also has face blindness and cannot tell people apart.
He travels to He Man, following the trail of the addictive drug Zornia grass (or gui cao), an illicit drug that threatens the social order in the empire. There, he meets Yan Nan Xing (Song Yi), a travelling doctor who is searching for a cure for a mysterious illness that she contracted after being made to take an unidentified medicine as a child. One of the effects of this medication is that her physical appearance changes every month. Xin Bai and Nan Xing must help each other in their respective quests as they gradually realise that love transcends surface looks.
Follow Your Heart combines romantic comedy elements with investigation subplots and a touch of the supernatural to make a light-hearted but intriguing drama.
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The romantic love story of Jiang Xinbai and Yan Nanxing. Together, they journey through the martial world.
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Ghost
Do you hear the strains of The Righteous Brothers’ “Unchained Melody”? Are you picturing Demi Moore at a pottery wheel, with Patrick Swayze holding her from behind? That iconic scene from Ghost has wormed its way into the memory of many moviegoers. Sure, the movie is sometimes regarded as cheesy and is often parodied, but this supernatural romance is a classic for a reason.
Wall Street banker Sam Wheat (Swayze) and his artist girlfriend Molly Jensen (Moore) are deeply in love with each other. One night, the couple is attacked by mugger Willie Lopez (Rick Aviles), a mugger, attacks the couple one night, killing Sam (who does not realise he’s dead). His ghost wanders the earth, and as he uncovers the dark truth behind his murder, he attempts to warn Molly about the danger to her life.
Sam seeks the help of Oda Mae Brown (Whoopi Goldberg), a phoney storefront psychic who turns out to have actual supernatural abilities. Mae attempts to protect Molly as she gets to the bottom of Sam’s murder, suspecting that his best friend and co-worker Carl Bruner (Tony Goldwyn) might know more than he’s letting on.
As unlikely as it seems in today’s world of franchise blockbuster dominance at the box office, Ghost became the highest-grossing movie of 1990, ahead of Home Alone. Despite an initial lukewarm critical reception, it was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning two: Best Original Screenplay for Bruce Joel Rubin and Best Supporting Actress for Goldberg. And Ghost’s legacy lives on, even till today: it spawned a 2011 stage musical that played on the West End and Broadway and continues to tour today.
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When Sam is murdered by Carl Bruner over a shady business deal, he is left to roam the earth as a powerless spirit. Sam must seek the help of psychic Oda Mae Brown to set things right.
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You’ve Got Mail
Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan lit up the screen together in three ’90s romantic comedies: Joe Versus the Volcano, Sleepless in Seattle, and You’ve Got Mail. (They later appeared together again in Ryan’s directorial debut, Ithaca.) You’ve Got Mail is beloved not just for Hanks and Ryan’s sparkling chemistry but also as something of a late-’90s time capsule.
Kathleen Kelly (Ryan) runs the boutique children’s bookstore, The Shop Around the Corner, on the Upper West Side in Manhattan. Her business is struggling, and she resents Joe Fox (Hanks), whose family runs the Fox Books chain store that is opening a new outlet just a few blocks away. Kathleen and Joe are in existing relationships: she with newspaper columnist Frank Navasky (Greg Kinnear), and he with publisher Patricia Eden (Parker Posey).
Using the screen name ‘Shopgirl’, Kathleen exchanges messages with ‘NY152’ on AOL chat, and behind the veil of anonymity, their interactions soon blossom into a romance. It turns out that NY152 is really Joe, and he eventually discovers that the woman he’s been chatting with and has fallen for is his competitor.
Directed by rom-com maven Nora Ephron, who co-wrote the screenplay with her sister Delia, You’ve Got Mail reunites the former with Hanks and Ryan; the trio first collaborated on Sleepless in Seattle five years earlier. Ryan and Ephron’s partnership dates back even further, with the two collaborating on 1989’s When Harry Met Sally…, which was written by Ephron and starred Ryan.
You’ve Got Mail is a ’90s reinvention of the 1937 Hungarian play Parfumerie by Miklós László. The play had earlier been adapted into two Hollywood movies in the ’40s and the 1963 musical She Loves Me. While some criticised the movie’s heavy-handed AOL product placement at the time, it is now a quaint reminder of the earlier, simpler days of the internet.
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Joe and Kathleen meet anonymously in an Internet chat room and find themselves confiding their innermost secrets. But the opening of Joe's new Fox Books superstore threatens their romance.
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Never Been Kissed
Drew Barrymore is mainly known today as an affable daytime TV talk show host, but many audiences remember her journey from child actress to teen idol. 1999’s Never Been Kissed is a key chapter in that journey.
Josie Geller (Barrymore) is a 25-year-old junior copywriter at the Chicago Sun-Times who has never been in a real romantic relationship. Her editor, James Rigfort (Garry Marshall), gives Josie an assignment in which she must go undercover at South Glen South High School to investigate contemporary teenage culture and trends. Josie runs afoul of mean girls Kirsten (Jessica Alba), Gibby (Jordan Ladd), and Kristin (Marley Shelton), and is given the nasty nickname Grossie. However, the kind-hearted Aldys (Leelee Sobieski) befriends her. Josie’s brother Rob (David Arquette), who was popular in high school, helps Josie join the school’s clique of popular girls, much to Aldys’ dismay. Josie’s cover is threatened when she falls for her English teacher, Sam Coulson (Michael Vartan).
Barrymore remains fond of Never Been Kissed, reprising the Josie character in segments of her talk show to interview the casts of Pen15 and Dear Evan Hansen.
“Stepping back into Josie Grossie’s shoes is so easy,” Barrymore tells Entertainment Tonight. “I don’t think I have ever not been in her shoes. I loved this character so much. She was so personal to me. This whole story, for me, was not to do another rom-com, it was to embody a human being that represents us all. How and when do we become OK with ourselves? That is what Never Been Kissed is all about,” she enthuses.
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Drew Barrymore lights up this romantic comedy as a nerdy reporter who goes undercover at a high school, reliving her agonising adolescence but finding love for the first time.
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