I know which Julia Roberts/Nick Nolte movie you're talking about, Katherine. I never saw it, apparently thankfully, and I can't recall the name, either. I remember hearing it was painful to watch the two of them together.
Right. I did
not love "I Love Trouble."
Tell you what, slightly OT but I often don't love movies that pair young actresses in romances with actors 30 years their senior (or 26 years, in the case of Julia/Nick). I'm not saying it
never works, but it's usually annoying. Especially as it's so rarely the other way around. Or if it is, as with Diane Keaton/Keanu Reeves (18 years apart) in "Something's Gotta Give," the relationship is doomed (Diane leaves Keanu for the more "appropriate" Jack Nicholson, nine years older) and the age difference is THE central issue, as opposed to when the man is older, when the difference usually goes unmentioned.
I know, I know, older men/younger women are more common in "real life." And you could find possible explanations in evolutionary psychology. But in movies it always seems like male vanity and sexism to me.
So next I want to see a movie that pairs Heath with an actress close to my age, like Michelle Pfeiffer or Debra Winger or Andie MacDowell. It could work, couldn't it? COULDN'T it???
OK, back on topic. Good list, Barb! I don't agree with all of them, but many of them I do. (J-Lo and Ralph --
cringe!) And funny about Tom and Nicole! Something tells me Tom and Katie would lack chemistry, too.