1Something's Gotta Give
It doesn't get more classic rom-com than this 2003 flick. When aging playboy Harry Sanborn (played by Jack Nicholson) spends the weekend at his young girlfriend's family beach house in the Hamptons, he finds himself falling in love with her mother, Erica Barry (played by Diane Keaton).
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2It's Complicated
Meryl Streep stars in this aptly titled 2009 movie about a bakery owner and single mother of three who rekindles her romance with her now-married-again ex-husband (played by Alex Baldwin) but also finds herself drawn to another man—an architect (played by Steve Martin)—at the same time. In other words, it's complicated.
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3The Parent Trap
Courtesy Everett Collection In this 1998 remake of the 1961 film, two long-lost identical twins (both played by a young Lindsay Lohan) meet at summer camp and agree to switch places in order to reconcile their divorced parents (played by Dennis Quaid and the late Natasha Richardson).
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4What Women Want
This 2000 flick directed by Meyers tells the story of a cocky, chauvinistic advertising executive (played by Mel Gibson) who magically hears what women are thinking, a skill which he attempts to use to his advantage to bring his female boss (played by Helen Hunt) down. But as uses his new powers to outwit her, he begins falling in love with her.
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5The Holiday
In this 2006 rom-com, two lovelorn ladies—California-based Amanda Woods and England-based Iris Simpkins—agree to swap homes, where they each meet a local guy and fall in love.
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6Private Benjamin
Warner Bros.//Getty Images While this 1980 film isn't a rom-com, it's still considered one of Meyers's finest works. Private Benjamin follows a spoiled young woman (played by Goldie Hawn) who joins the army after her husband unexpectedly dies on their wedding night and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.
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7Home Again
Karen Ballard In 2017's Home Again—which was produced by Meyers and written and directed by her daughter, Hallie Meyers-Shyer—focuses in on a newly single mom (played by Reese Witherspoon) in Los Angeles who allows three young aspiring filmmakers to live with her. Things begin to get messy, though, when she develops a budding romance with one of the men and her estranged husband wants her back.
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9Father of the Bride
©Buena Vista Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection Steve Martin plays an over-protective dad trying to cope with his young daughter getting married in this hysterical 1991 remake of Father of the Bride.
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10Father of the Bride II
©Buena Vista Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection The 1995 sequel is just as funny: just when Steve Martin's character is getting over his daughter's marriage, he learns she and his wife are pregnant at the same time.
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11The Intern
The Intern isn't a rom-com, but it is a hilarious Meyers classic. Robert De Niro plays a 70-year-old intern at an online fashion website, where he befriends his boss (played by Anne Hathaway).
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Sophie Dweck is the associate shopping editor for Town & Country, where she covers beauty, fashion, home and décor, and more.
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