Now that finals are over and so is school you might be wondering what to do with all your free time. The answer is simple, turn on Netflix and watch these top three-holiday themed rom-coms.
Serendipity
Is the tale of two strangers meeting on Christmas in New York City. Jonathan (Joan Cusack) and Sara (Kate Beckinsale) meet in in a department store trying to buy the same pair of gloves. As the story progresses the two have an inexplicably romantic night, even though each one is in a relationship. Sara tries to explain to Jonathan that fate has a big role in the decisions made in her life, including whether they’ll meet again. At the end of the night they both decide to place their contact information on a dollar bill and a book that they’ll put back out into the universe and if they find it then they will meet up again. It is years later when they are both set to marry different people that they scramble to find each other again. This heartwarming tale is about finding your way to your one true love no matter what.
While You Were Sleeping
Tells the story of a young transit worker named Lucy (Sandra Bullock) who becomes fed up with being lonely every year. On Christmas, she saves the life of a man (Peter Gallagher) she has had a crush on for a while, but doesn’t know anything about him. After being mugged the man falls onto the tracks of an oncoming train. Its then that Lucy jumps onto the tracks to save him. He falls into a comma and in the hospital, a nurse misinterprets her words, “I was going to marry him” and from that moment on she becomes entangled in this man’s life. She meets his family who adore her, but then she meets the man’s brother (Bill Pullman) who throughout the movie questions Lucy’s authenticity. But as he pries into who she is they both end up falling in love. It is then that Lucy must decide who she really loves.
Holiday Engagement
This is probably the only Hallmark movie I will ever endorse (But who knows) and while the story takes place during Thanksgiving its close enough to Christmas. Hillary burns (Bonnie Somerville) has never quite been able to satisfy her overbearing mother when it comes to finding the right guy. Her family is eager for her to get married, but alas she hasn’t been able to find the right guy, that is until now. She has a successful boyfriend and everything seems to be going great. That is until he breaks up with her. She then scrabbles to find a replacement for her fiancé as the holiday weekend approaches. After placing an ad online, she finds David (Jordan Bridges) an actor looking for a gig. Throughout the weekend David pretends to be Hillary’s fiancé for her family and along the way the lying becomes blurred with reality and the two soon find themselves falling for each other.