Top 5 Best Rom-Coms for Teens!
February 17, 2023
1. Love, Simon (2018): This is the ideal selection for sleepover fare because it is both a coming-of-age story and an identity journey with lots of adorable adolescent romantic scenes. In a narrative that so many people will find quite familiar, it centers on a gay boy who is attempting to figure out how to come out and find love.
2. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (2018): In the novel To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, Lara Jean Covey and her family are shown adjusting to life when her older sister Margot leaves for college in Scotland. Lara Jean reveals in the prologue that she writes love letters to ex-boyfriends as a method of moving on from them; she has no intention of ever sending the letters once she has written her sentiments down. Without her sister’s guidance, Lara Jean must deal with the consequences of her secret love letters being sent to all her crushes.
3. Crazy Rich Asians (2018): Rachel Chu is excited to travel to Singapore with her longtime boyfriend, Nick, to attend his best friend’s wedding. She is also shocked to discover that Nick is one of the nation’s most eligible bachelors and that his family is immensely affluent. As a result of being thrust into the spotlight, Rachel must now deal with envious socialites, eccentric family members, and something much worse: Nick’s judgmental mother.
4. When Harry Met Sally (1989): Is it ever possible for men and women to just be friends? This Nora Ephron rom-com seeks to provide an answer to that topic. The connection between Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal really radiates off the screen, and who can forget that legendary scene in Katz’s Deli? It’s also a love letter to New York City, including images of Central Park in the fall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and other busy street scenes.
5. Clueless (1995): There aren’t many Jane Austen books that can be brilliantly transformed into rom-coms, but Emma was in 1995’s Clueless. Affluent Californian girl Cher, played by Alicia Silverstone, tries to take control of everyone she knows instead of her own life. As Cher eventually fell head over heals for her ex-stepbrother Josh, who never fails to save her, she found herself in trouble. Even if some people continue to question the morality of Josh and Cher’s relationship, Cher’s path of self-discovery and letting down her guard sets a lovely example for young women and results in an endearing love tale.
