My Top Ten FilmsBy Charlotte-Louise Beach
10.Rush Hour -1998
Cast
Jackie Chan – Lee
Chris Tucker – Carter
Julia Hsu – Soo Yung
Ken Leung – Sang
Tzi Ma – Consul Han
Plot
Cultures clash and tempers flare as the two cops, Lee and Carter who are both from very different worlds discover one thing in common: they can’t stand each other. With time running out they must join forces to catch the criminals and save the eleven year-old.
9.The Vow -2012
Cast
Rachel McAdams – Paige
Channing Tatum – Leo
Scott Speedman – Jeremy
Plot
Leo and Paige are a couple who just got married. After an accident Paige is left unconscious and when she wakes she doesn’t remember Leo. Whilst trying to remember her memories she stays with her parents when she bumps into an ex partner she remembers. But Leo tries winning her back and reminding her of their life together.
8.The Notebook -2004
Cast
Ryan Gosling – Noah
Rachel McAdams – Allie
Kevin Connolly – Fin
James Garner – Duke
Gena Rowlands – Older Allie
Plot
In a nursing home, resident Duke reads a romance story for an old woman, Allie who has senile dementia with memory loss. What Allie doesn’t know is that they actually were in love and married before she had dementia. Duke reads to her each day to see if she will remember him and their memories together. The film goes back and forth to flashbacks.
7.Safe Haven -2013
Cast
Julianne Hough – Katie
Josh Duhamel – Alex
Mimi Kirkland – Lexie
Noah Lomax – Josh
Cobie Smulders - Jo
Plot
When mysterious Katie appears in a small North Carolina town of Southport her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, a widowed store owner and another with her single neighbour, Jo. Yet, she still struggles with the dark secret that still haunts her.
6.Step Brothers -2008
Cast
Will Ferrell – Brennan Huff
John C. Reilly – Dale Doback
Mary Steenburgen – Nancy Huff
Richard Jenkins – Dr. Robert Doback
Adam Scott - Derek
Plot
Brennan and Dale are both 40 when Brennan’s mum and Dale’s dad marry. Both sons still live at home so they must now share a room. Dale’s dad lays down the law and they have a week to find a job. Out of the job search and their love of music comes a pact that leads to friendship but more domestic disarray compounded by the boys sleepwalking.
5.Dear John -2010
Cast
Amanda Seyfried – Savannah Curtis
Channing Tatum – John Tyree
Richard Jenkins – Mr. Tyree
Henry Thomas - Tim
Plot
South Carolina US Army Special operations soldier John is on summer leave visiting his widowed father. He meets college student Savannah on the pier, John falls in love with the girl who diagnoses his father as mildly autistic. He ends up signing up again due to 9/11 and she can’t wait any longer for him.
4. Fifty Shades of Grey -2015
Cast
Jamie Dornan – Christian Grey
Dakota Johnson – Anastasia Steele
Rita Ora – Mia Grey
Eloise Mumford – Kate
Victor Rasuk – Jose
Plot
When Ana, a literature student goes to interview wealthy Christian as a favour to her roommate she encounters a beautiful yet intimidating man. She starts to love him, but to receive a relationship it must be on his terms. She hesitates as she discovers the singular tastes of Mr Grey. Grey is consumed by the need to control everything.
3.The Time Travellers Wife -2009
Cast
Rachel McAdams – Clare
Eric Bana – Henry
Really these are the only two characters that matter seen as they are shown over their life span with different castings.
Plot
When Henry meets Clare in the library they both understand he is a time traveller, she knows much more about him as he has not yet been to the places they have already met. They fall in love but with his continuous unavoidable absences while time travelling and returning with knowledge for their future is making things difficult for Clare.
2. Toy Story -1995
Voice Cast
Tom Hanks – Woody
Tim Allen – Buzz Lightyear
Don Rickles – Mr. Potato Head
Wallace Shawn – Rex
Plot
A little boy called Andy loves playing with his toys, but he doesn’t know what they do when he is not with them, they come to life. Woody doesn’t realise that Andy’s mother has got him a new Buzz Lightyear toy for his birthday who quickly ends up the favourite toy. Woody becomes extremely jealous and tries to get rid of Buzz.
1. Titanic -1997
Cast
Leonardo DiCaprio – Jack Dawson
Kate Winslet – Rose DeWitt Bukater
Kathy Bates – Molly Brown
Billy Zane – Cal Hockley
Plot
The plot of Titanic is based around the RMS Titanic story itself, with it sinking after hitting an iceberg. The film includes a dramatic love story between a third-class man and an upper-class lady, that would never of happened in 1912. The story remains with their love affair from Rose’s husband, Cal.
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