![]() ![]() SLOW BURN ROMANCE MOVIES SERIESIn a series of unlikely events, Han Gyul hires Yoo Joo for various jobs (including fake boyfriend and as a server at an all-male-staffed coffee shop) assuming that she's a boy. Yoo Joo is an adorably awkward tomboy who is often mistaken for a boy and is her family's breadwinner. Basically, Han Gyul is the handsome and rich heir to some sort of giant food company or something. ![]() It was originally based on a novel and developed into a seventeen-episode series. Yes, this is the Korean drama that sparked my recent binge. But she loves her husband and he is the husband's friend and WHAT WILL HAPPEN? Over the course of a few weeks, two grow close and realize they are attracted to each other as they see the Egyptian sights together. So the husband enlists an old friend from the U.N., dreamy, dreamy Alexander Siddig, who lives in Cairo now to keep her entertained until he can get to town. They're supposed to meet for an extended vacation in Egypt, when the husband gets caught up in Gaza or something. worker who spends much of his time abroad creating peace in the Middle East or whatever. The always-delightful Patricia Clarkson is a successful magazine editor married to some sort of fancy U.N. SLOW BURN ROMANCE MOVIES MOVIEBut Adrien Brody actually falls in love with her! But they are still conning her! And he can't break his promises to Mark Ruffalo and break their cover! Most of this movie I was yelling at Adrien Brody to just tell her what was actually going on, but it was adorable anyway. They convince Weisz' character that they are international smugglers (which is not too far from the truth) to get her to invest in them and join them for a larceny-filled trip around the world. Adrien has decided he wants to get out of the dishonesty game, but Mark convinces him to join him on one more job, which involves scamming a beautiful and kind of weird heiress (Rachel Weisz). Stop torturing me with the delicious-looking mimosas and tell her the goddamn truth!Īdrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo are the delightfully handsome and smooth-talking titular Bloom brothers who have made their living running elaborate cons. These are some of my favorites in this genre: Sometimes these social obstacles can be overcome, sometimes not, but you are filled with delightful angst the whole time about WILL THEY OR WON'T THEY? AND GODDAMMIT, JUST DO IT. Some romantic movies feature couples that start dating and/or humping from the get-go, but others offer delightfully slow-burning stories filled with meaningful glances and tension and inconvenient circumstances and RULES OF SOCIETY THAT WILL KEEP US APART. Also see 1-10: The Sweet Ones and 11-20: The Sexy Ones. ![]()
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