Top 10 Memorable Movie Dates
Dangerous, disastrous, quirky and romantic. Heineken's new advert inspires our top ten favourite moments.
With Heineken introducing their latest advert and mini-epic 'The Date' (see below), we take a look at some of the most memorable date scenes in movies. From the dangerous to disastrous, quirky to romantic - our top ten favourite moments.
1. Pulp Fiction (above)
One of the most iconic moments in cinema, John Travolta takes the boss's wife out to keep her company. The vampish and ultracool Uma Thurman smokes, snorts, flirts and kicks her shoes off to show Travolta how to cut a rug on the dancefloor. Chaste under pain of death, it's still electric, thanks to the frisson of danger.
2. There's Something About Mary
The genre-defining gross-out comedy from the Farrelly Brothers, Ben Stiller is instructed to, ahem, relieve himself before a hot date with his high school crush Cameron Diaz. Cue a painfully funny misunderstanding over "hair gel" that gave Diaz that quiff.
3. Back to the Future
God bless science fiction. In no other genre could it be possible for your hero to go on a date and fight off the advances of his own mother without being slapped with an X certificate. Michael J. Fox learns the hard way about the phenomenon that is genetic sexual attraction.
4. Harold and Maude
Speaking of twisted, this cult 1971 comedy is one of the most subversive but touching films of all time. A young man obsessed with death meets his soul mate - a 79-year-old woman with a warped outlook on life - while they're both gatecrashing the funeral of a complete stranger.
5. Before Sunrise
Richard Linklater's beloved 1995 flick cheats - the entire film is one long date between dreamy cynic Ethan Hawke and the romantic Julie Delpy. Strangers who meet on a train (of course), they wander the streets of Vienna pondering love and life.
6. (500) Days of Summer
Shopping in Ikea is rubbish. If only the übercute Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel could turn up every day and frolick in the bargain bedsheets. We're brought down to earth by seeing the painfully twee pair's love affair disintegrate from quirky to staid over the 500 days.
7. Seven Year Itch
A stroll through a sweltering Manhattan with a lovestruck married man and his foxy neighbour leads to a moment frozen in time for all eternity. Marilyn Monroe. That white dress. That subway vent. Bingo.
8. Submarine
Craig Roberts' pretentious teenager is being used as circumstantial evidence by his beloved schoolfriend Yasmin Paige. He doesn't care, as he gets an electrifying, heart-stopping, polaroid-snapping first kiss under the train tracks in Richard Ayoade's glorious debut.
9. Roxanne
This delightful 1980s adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac sees an abnormally large-conked Steve Martin profess his love for Daryl Hannah through the hunky but vacuous Rick Rossovich, via love letters read under her window.
10. Enchanted
Amy Adams shows uptight Patrick Dempsey the magic and joy that lurks in cynical New York City as she sings and gambols around Central Park. Utterly infectious, the clever family film is a Disney cartoon literally come to life.
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