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.