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Top 10 Times Romance Movies Took a Risk

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It Happened One Night swept the Oscars in 1934 .

Brokeback Mountain was a financial gamble with no guarantees that people outside of the LGBTQIA plus community would show up.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was a relatable romance that kept the story grounded even as the walls of sanity close in on Jim Carrey's Joel while trying to preserve the memory of Kate Winslet's Clementine The Eraser .

Linklater 's one -of-a-kind trilogy demonstrates how life goes on and how people mature with the passage of time.

The Graduate is a definitive counterculture movie with another age gap at the center.

Harold and Maude is now considered a quintessential 70s movie, with more people realizing why it works.

The film is about nostalgia and the people who simultaneously represent a simpler time and the most confusing time of a person's life.

During the film's production, interracial marriage was still on the verge of being legalized in every US state.

If you want true love, then this is it. This is real life. It's not perfect, but it's real.

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