EXAMPLES OF ROMANCE

FILMS

Breakfast At Tiffany’s (1961)• 1961 American romantic comedy film starring

Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard, and featuring Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, and Mickey Rooney. The film was directed by Blake Edwards and released by Paramount Pictures. It is loosely based on the novella of the same name by Truman Capote.

• nominated for five Academy Awards, Best Actress for Hepburn, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Art Direction, winning two for Best Original Score and Best Original Song for the famous "Moon River". "Moon River" was also selected as the fourth most memorable song in Hollywood history by the American Film Institute in 2004.

• In 2012, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

Safe Haven (2013)• Safe Haven is a 2013 American romance film starring Julianne

Hough, Josh Duhamel and Cobie Smulders. • It was released theatrically in North America on February 14,

2013. The film was directed by Lasse Hallström, and is an adaptation of Nicholas Sparks's novel of the same name.

• The film was widely panned by critics, but was nonetheless financially successful with a worldwide.

• The studios it was realted to were Relativity Media and Temple Hill Entertainment

• Distributed by Relativity Media• Had a budget $28 million and worldwide made a gross of $96.3

million. • Safe Haven was universally panned by critics, as it currently

holds a 12% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 137 critic reviews. Conversely, Safe Haven earned a 4.2 out of 5 Star average as rated by over 1.3 million Netflix viewers, as well as a 3.8 of 5 rating among 71,000 viewers on rottentomatoes.com, revealing that the public is far more approving of this film than critics were.

• Safe Haven was released on DVD and Blu-ray on May 7, 2013.