Romantic Com Shorts
Description: One of the enduring images of 80s high school comedy dramas is from 1989's Say Anything with a young John Cusack serenading his would-be girlfriend by playing Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" on his boombox. Lloyd Dobler is one of a select number of trenchcoat wearing film and TV characters along with everyone's favourite Supernatural angel, Castiel, who features here in Lloyd's iconic pose.
Description: Overboard is a 1987 American romantic comedy film directed by Garry Marshall, written by Leslie Dixon, starring Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, and produced by Roddy McDowall, who also co-stars. The film's soundtrack was composed by Alan Silvestri. Although it opened to mixed reviews and was a box office disappointment, Overboard has become a cult film and has been remade twice. In 1992, it was adapted in the Indian film Ek Ladka Ek Ladki, in 2006, it was adapted into the South Korean television series Couple or Trouble and in 2018 it was remade with Anna Faris and Eugenio Derbez. The plot of the 1997 Malayalam film Mayaponman, is loosely based on this film.
