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George Clooney & Julia Roberts Showcase Hilarious 22-Year Friendship
Was Paradise worthy the wait?
After their agelong respective breaks from romanticist comedies, champion friends Julia Roberts and George Clooney combined their corporate prima powerfulness for Ticket to Paradise, which deed theaters connected Oct. 21. In the caller movie, the Ocean's 11 co-stars play a divorced couple who begrudgingly travel backmost unneurotic for an escapade successful Bali to halt their lovestruck girl from marrying idiosyncratic she conscionable met.
Two Tickets to Paradise marks a long-awaited instrumentality to the genre for Roberts, 1 of Hollywood's rom-com queens acknowledgment to iconic movies specified arsenic Pretty Woman, Notting Hill and My Best Friend's Wedding. But the 54-year-old precocious clarified that she didn't mean to instrumentality a much than 22-year interruption from the feel-good films.
"People sometimes misconstrue the magnitude of clip that's gone by that I haven't done a romanticist drama arsenic my not wanting to bash one," Roberts explained to Vanity Fair in April. "If I had work thing that I thought was that Notting Hill level of penning oregon My Best Friend's Wedding level of madcap fun, I would bash it. They didn't beryllium until this movie that I conscionable did that Ol Parker wrote and directed."
The Oscar victor continued that she thought the movie would "only [work] if it's George Clooney. Lo and behold, George felt it lone worked with me. Somehow we are some capable to bash it, and disconnected we went."
So, however does Ticket to Paradise yet stack up against Roberts' roster of rom-coms? Prepare to person large feelings—huge!—over our ranking of her champion and worst outings:
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WORST: I Love Trouble
We had much chemistry with the frog we were forced to dissect successful subject people than Roberts shared with her starring antheral Nick Nolte successful this 1994 weaponry written by Nancy Meyers. And it makes consciousness fixed that the co-stars did not get along.
"From the infinitesimal I met him we benignant of gave each different a hard time, and people we get connected each other's nerves," Roberts told The New York Times in 1993. She went connected to enactment that portion Nolte could beryllium "completely charming and precise nice," she added, "He's besides wholly disgusting. He's going to hatred maine for saying this, but helium seems spell retired of his mode to repel people. He's a kick."
Nolte aboriginal returned the favor, telling The Los Angeles Times, "It's not bully to telephone idiosyncratic 'disgusting. But she's not a bully person. Everyone knows that."
Trouble indeed!
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Mother's Day
It's ne'er a bully motion erstwhile the biggest talking constituent astir a movie is 1 of the star's wigs. And yet that was the lawsuit erstwhile it came to Roberts' distracting reddish bob successful this 2016 ensemble helmed by the late Garry Marshall, who directed the prima successful Pretty Woman. It was aboriginal revealed to beryllium the fake hairsbreadth she wore successful Notting Hill (while her character, a world-famous actress, was playing an astronaut successful the fake movie Helix) that Roberts held onto.
Sadly, portion we tin callback the agleam wig successful vivid detail, we couldn't archer you Roberts' storyline successful this movie if you offered america $3 million, which is however overmuch she made for her 4 days of enactment connected Mother's Day.
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Valentine's Day
Roberts ditched the wig for her 2nd go-around successful 1 of Marshall's star-studded vacation outings, but that doesn't mean she fared overmuch amended successful this 2010 movie. She is partnered with Bradley Cooper for their vignette astir 2 strangers who link connected a level and the large uncover astatine the extremity is that he's gay. (We've had worse Valentine's Days, TBH.)
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The Mexican
You cognize however immoderate radical judge that if 2 beauteous radical procreate their kid volition beryllium unattractive? Well, this 2001 action-adventure rom-com is the movie prima mentation of that arsenic Roberts combined forces with Brad Pitt to present a merchandise that was nary bueno.
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Larry Crowne
Roberts and Tom Hanks, 2 rom-com legends, came unneurotic for this 2011 movie, which was directed and co-written by Hanks. And portion they had an easy, earthy connection, determination conscionable wasn't overmuch there there, benignant of similar a barroom without frosting.
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America's Sweethearts
Starring Roberts, John Cusack, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Billy Crystal, this rom-com carried precocious expectations up of its 2001 release. But critics were little than saccharine connected the film, contempt its meta commentary astir Hollywood and high-maintenance movie stars. And the occupation seemed to beryllium not capable romance or comedy, with the apical tier level of endowment adjacent proving incapable to emergence supra the fluff.
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Ticket to Paradise
Is the plot—a divorcement mates coming unneurotic to halt their girl from getting married—revolutionary? Of people not. But nary specified mortal tin defy the combined charisma, charm and surface beingness of Roberts and her BFF George Clooney and their banter is simply a one-way summons to paradise.
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Runaway Bride
Maybe we should susurration this, but we secretly similar this Roberts-Richard Gere movie to their much-more beloved collaboration—which we volition beryllium getting to successful a minute—for respective reasons: 1. The adorable tiny municipality mounting and broadside characters, including scene-stealer extraordinaire Joan Cusack! 2. Seeing each of the amusive weddings Maggie (Roberts) sprinted distant from! 3. The delicious banter betwixt Roberts and Gere! Aren't. We. Right?
Alas, we tin begrudgingly admit that determination is simply a definite spark missing, thing Gere admitted to feeling portion making the 1999 film.
"Whatever that magic was successful the archetypal movie, you can't marque that happen," helium told Entertainment Weekly. "While there's immoderate fantastic worldly successful the movie, it surely didn't person the magic of the archetypal one. The anticipation that it was going to person that aforesaid benignant of delicious magic was irresponsible. It was a antithetic movie, it was a antithetic time."
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Mystic Pizza
Oh, however we emotion this 1988 coming-of-age movie that served arsenic Roberts' archetypal major role, 2 years earlier her large interruption arsenic Vivian in Pretty Woman. But her prima powerfulness is afloat connected show arsenic the impulsive and affectional waitress Daisy, who engages successful a star-crossed romance with a yuppie. But, portion their relationship is cute (and the country wherever Daisy douses his fancy car successful food h2o is 1 of the movie's astir memorable moments), it is the relationship betwixt the 3 young women that truly can't beryllium topped.
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My Best Friend's Wedding
Okay, let's conscionable get it retired of the way: Roberts' quality Julianne, who decides she is successful emotion with her champion person lone aft helium gets engaged to idiosyncratic else, is really The Worst successful this 1997 gem. And yet, it besides proves the choke-hold the prima has connected each of america that we are inactive upset she—spoiler alert!—!doesn't get the feline successful the end, a refreshing alteration to the genre's accustomed formula.
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Pretty Woman
Not ranking this escaped retelling of Cinderella this precocious connected a database of Roberts' champion rom-coms? Big mistake. Huge! Listen, we are alert that the narration betwixt prostitute Vivian and affluent businessman Edward (Gere) is problematic and we are 96 percent definite the mates broke up, like, 1 week aft the movie ends. Still, you simply cannot instrumentality your eyes disconnected of Roberts, who won the Golden Globe for Best Actress successful a Musical of Comedy aft her star-making crook successful the 1990 classic. And she was right, she treated america truthful bully that we ne'er fto her go.
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BEST: Notting Hill
We're conscionable an E! News team, lasting successful beforehand of a reader, asking them to admit the axenic and utter magic of Roberts' circuit de unit show successful this 1999 classic. At the highest of her charisma and charm and combined with the irresistible allure of Hugh Grant, there is simply a crushed Notting Hill remains 1 of Roberts' astir enduring movies.
Ticket to Paradise is successful theaters now.
