I love movies. I love romantic, sweep-me-off -my -feet movies, with hot chocolate and rocky road ice cream. I love the first kiss, the bittersweet goodbye, the whole lost you and found you happily ever after thing.

I’ve read that some people believe romantic comedies are very bad for a girl. They are like the binge of the mind. We get so fat with the fantasy that we forget the real thing. But I disagree. I believe a good romantic comedy should be just as rich and magical as chocolate cake. It should have laughter, and magic and a happy ending. Real girls (and women) love fairytales, it is like taking a mental bubble bath.

Some of my favorite romances laced with the mystical and magical elements that represent the power of love. These films took love beyond our imagination, love that transcended the ages. It showed love as the power that binds throughout any dimension you happen to be on.

The following are some of my favorite romantic movies with a metaphysical twist flavor. I will start with the oldest to the most recent.

Here comes Mr. Jordan (the remake is Heaven can Wait) This is a delightful film with Claude Raines as Mr. Jordan, and Robert Montgomery as Joe the Boxer, who is mistakenly taken to heaven before his time. Mr. Jordan has to give Joe a second chance. However Joe cannot take his own body back, he has to take the body of someone else. (Robert Montgomery was the father of Elizabeth Montgomery, star of Bewitched. )

“After Joe turns down several unsuitable "candidates", Mr. Jordan takes him to see the body of a crooked, extremely wealthy banker-investor named Farnsworth. Farnsworth's wife Julia (Rita Johnson) and his secretary, Tony Abbott (John Emery) have just drugged and drowned him in a bathtub. Joe is reluctant to take over a life so unlike his previous one, but when he sees the murderous pair mockingly berating Miss Logan (Evelyn Keyes), the daughter of a financier who was sold worthless bonds by Farnsworth's bank, he changes his mind (and body). The audience continues to see Montgomery as Pendleton, but everyone in the film, including his wife and secretary (who are astonished to see that the murder didn't "take"), see and hear Farnsworth.” Wikipedia. This movie has been remade a couple of times. Warren Beatty was Joe in the 1978 “Heaven Can Wait.” And Chris Rock played a more recent Joe in 2001 “Down to Earth.”

I married a Witch: Sexy Veronica Lake (Jennifer) and Fredrick March (Jonathan) started in this 1943 romantic comedy about an irresistible witch out to fulfill an old curse. The story goes that she and her father were burned at the stake as witches during the Salem Witch trials. The witches swore the prosecutors and his descendents would never have love in their lives. The lovely Miss Lake with her peek-a-boo hairstyle captures the heart of the ancestor of the prosecutors and the rest is….well magical folly with love as the result.

The Enchanted Cottage: This movie was very different from the funny witch movie. This one had a much more serious tone that tugged at the heartstrings with its simple beauty. The 1945 film starred Robert Young and Dorothy McGuire as two scarred and simple people who fall in love. “Oliver Bradford (Robert Young) is disfigured by war wounds, he hides from his family (Spring Byington) and fiancée (Hillary Brooke), renting a cottage from Mrs. Minnett (Mildred Natwick). Laura Pennington (Dorothy McGuire) is a shy, homely maid who tidies up the place. Oliver and Laura gradually fall in love and discover that their feelings for each other have mysteriously transformed them. He appears handsome to her, and she seems beautiful to him. This is only perceived by the two lovers (and the audience), not by others. Laura comes to believe that the cottage is "enchanted" because it was once often rented to honeymoon couples. “(Wikipedia)

Bell, Book and Candle: There was never a more glamorous witch than Kim Novak in this 1958 romantic dramedy. Starring veteran actor James Stewart, Elsa Lancaster and the very cool and cute Jack Lemmon, this witchy love tale is all about how a witch falls in love with a regular guy. One of the most memorable things about that movie was the cat Pywacket –what a great name for a cat.

Just like Heaven: Complicated story about a gal in a coma. her apartment gets rented out, and the guy who lives there falls in love with her spirit! But she’s actually not dead but in a coma! Somehow this one works with Reese Witherspoon as the comatose gal and Mark Ruffalo as the guy who loves her.

Sleepless in Seattle: A whole generation were introduced all over again in this romantic comedy that is All about synchronicity and how some love is just meant to be. Meg Ryan is at the height of her cuteness and Tom Hanks, well he’s just good in everything. Throw in the dreams of an 8-year old boy and you have movie magic on your hands.

Defending your Life: Wouldn’t it be cool if we could just die and discover what our past lives were and what we did in our life to make an impact? This comedy starring the lovely Meryl Streep and the sort of average guy, Albert Brooks is a great story about a guy who dies and finds the love of his life at the Waystation to heaven.

City of Angels (OMG that one made me cry!) okay this movie was not a comedy it is one that made me break out the hankies! This movie stars the cute Meg Ryan (with sad eyes this time) and the serious Nicolas Cage. Nicolas is an angel who falls in love with a doctor played by Meg Ryan. So he decides to become human. There is no happily ever after here, so brace yourself.

My Stepmother is an Alien: This is probably one of my favorite Kim Basinger movies, and it wasn’t even her best role. But I loved her in it. Kim comes to earth as an extraterrestrial trying to save her dying planet. In the meantime, she falls in love with the sweet scientist Dan Ackyord and his daughter.

Ghost: This is probably everyone’s all time favorite of all metaphysical movies of all time. I know it was my favorite, starring the late, great Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore along with the fabulous Whoopi Goldberg, this movie is about a guy who gets killed and his ghost comes back to protect his lady love and avenge his death. Great romantic scenes with Demi and Patrick making love to pottery.

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