George and Louise had a similar relationship to that of Archie and Edith. While both women were kind counterparts to their loud-mouthed husbands, Louise stood her ground and proved that she could go toe-to-toe more so than Edith did. At the end of the day, though, George and Louise loved each other, and they made history on one of the longest-running American series with a primarily black cast.
Hoda Kotb And Jenna Bush Hager As Sonny And Cher
In , Katharine Houghton plays Joanna “Joey” Drayton, a young woman who speaks eloquently and respectfully to her mother (Katharine Hepburn) about the man, Dr. John Wade Prentice (Sidney Poitier), whom she loves. The fact that John is Black catches Joey’s mother off guard, but Houghton and Poitier play such a convincing couple that they make us believe they can overcome racial prejudices. These couples show us significant examples of correspondence, splitting the difference, and the significance of embracing defects in a relationship. They move us to seek after our heartfelt excursions and value the enchantment of tracking down a genuine accomplice. As we keep on praising the specialty of narrating on the cinema, let us esteem the remarkable film couples that have contacted our lives and keep on helping us to remember the inconceivable force of adoration.
Okay, so I am a sucker for a good enemies to lovers trope and this is definitely the OG way to do it right. Also, if I want a quick romance fix, the P&P with Kiera is what I put on, even though the 90’s one is objectively the better adaptation, the 05 version is so good. In movies, the typical reaction to someone saying “I love you” is “I love you, too.” It’s almost expected, so naturally, that’s what George Lucas intended for Han and Leia, right?
They proved that soulmates don’t have to be perfect—they just have to actually strive to be there for each other (and, if they have one, their little family). The two ultimately got together, only to be torn apart yet again, but they proved to be a couple worth rooting for each week. For example, just try watching the eye contact they make while belting out the hauntingly beautiful “No One Will Ever Love You” without getting goosebumps. Like the central characters on The Jeffersons, Phil (James Avery) and Vivian Banks (Janet Hubert-Whitten first, and Daphne Maxwell Reid later) were an affluent black couple in a predominantly white world. Neighborhood of Bel-Air, where they took in their nephew (Will Smith, playing a fictionalized version of himself).
- Although the two never did end up tying the knot, their decades-long partnership demonstrates their dedication to one another.
- But, hey, a retelling of Romeo and Juliet is going to have some drama, right?
- These people are refreshing because and not in spite of their many flaws, proving that sometimes two wrongs do make a right.
- But they also live in 1970s Harlem, right after the Civil Rights Movement.
- Nicholas Sparks clearly knew what he was doing when he wrote the novel the movie is based on because more than one high schooler wished they’d find a summer love like theirs at the beach.
Lara Jean (Lana Condor) and Peter (Noah Centineo)’s relationship began when they were in middle school, with her writing (and not sending) a love letter to him. But when it gets out and he tries to make his ex-girlfriend jealous, it leads to a love the two never expected as teenagers. As children, Kevin (Jaden Piner) helps young Chiron, then called Little (Alex R. Hibbert), toughen up, but in doing so shares a moment of affection with him.
Well, that was pretty much the start of Mark and Bridget’s romance in Bridget’s Jones’s Diary. Even though he’s a family friend, Bridget really wanted nothing to do with Mark in adulthood. Even though they yell at one another and have a shaky history, Jake and Melanie in Sweet Home Alabama are totally couple goals. Seriously, there is just something about the scene where Jake asks, “what do you want to marry me for anyhow?
Seth And Summer, The Oc
It could only take a magnetic chemistry like this to get millions of grown adults invested in the relationship between a brooding, overprotective vampire and a moody, awkward teenage girl. How does 40-year-old Stella (Angela Bassett) get her groove back, you ask? La-Date reviews By taking a trip to Jamaica and starting a romance with Winston (Taye Diggs), a willing local who is 20 years her junior.
But we’d say the show’s truly iconic relationship is the far more reliable pairing of Monica (Courteney Cox) and Chandler (Matthew Perry). In fact, more than 70 percent of TV viewers in the country tuned in to see them welcome their fictional son in 1953. The series not only changed the course of television, but it made audiences laugh week after week for six years. The straight actors managed to deeply invest all kinds of audiences in this beautiful and deeply tragic cowboy romance that made an incredibly compelling case for same-sex marriage.