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The Best Romantic Comedies Rated PG-13
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Vote up your favorite PG-13 rom-coms.
The best PG-13 rom-coms will have you have laughing while you watch a love story unfold. Many good romantic comedies are rated PG-13 - they are able to make jokes that appeal to a wide audience and don't have to use explicit language or behavior to get their point across. This list takes the best PG-13 romantic comedies and pits them against each other to see once and for all what the greatest PG-13 romantic comedy movie of all time is.
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This list of popular PG-13 romantic comedies includes information like who directed the film, when it was released and which actors starred in the movie. Classic rom-coms like Clueless, 10 Things I Hate About You, and The Wedding Singer are compared to newer movies on the list. If you think the top PG-13 romantic comedy movie isn't as high as it should be then be sure to vote it up so it can take its rightful place among the other great funny romance films on this list.
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- 1Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Mary Steenburgen
- Released: 2009
- Directed by: Anne Fletcher
Faced with deportation to her native Canada, high-powered book editor Margaret Tate (Sandra Bullock) says she's engaged to marry Andrew Paxton (Ryan Reynolds), her hapless assistant. Andrew agrees to ...more - 2Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Adam Goldberg
- Released: 2003
- Directed by: Donald Petrie
An advice columnist, Andie Anderson (Kate Hudson), tries pushing the boundaries of what she can write about in her new piece about how to get a man to leave you in 10 days. Her editor, Lana (Bebe ...more - 3Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- Released: 1999
- Directed by: Gil Junger
Kat Stratford (Julia Stiles) is beautiful, smart and quite abrasive to most of her fellow teens, meaning that she doesn't attract many boys. Unfortunately for her younger sister, Bianca (Larisa ...more - 4Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo, Judy Greer
- Released: 2004
- Directed by: Gary Winick
A girl who's sick of the social strictures of junior high is transformed into a grownup overnight. In this feel-good fairy tale, teenager Jenna (Christa B. Allen) wants a boyfriend, and when she's ...more - 5Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair
- Released: 2001
- Directed by: Robert Luketic
Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) has it all. She wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Warner Huntington III. But there is one thing stopping him (Matthew Davis) from proposing: She is too blond. Elle ...more - 6Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Rob Schneider
- Released: 2004
- Directed by: Peter Segal
Playboy vet Henry sets his heart on romancing Lucy, but she has short-term memory loss; she can't remember anything that happened the day before. So every morning, Henry has to woo her again. Her ...more - 7Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, Brittany Murphy
- Released: 1995
- Directed by: Amy Heckerling
Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher (Alicia Silverstone) is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into ...more - 8Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas, Patrick Dempsey
- Released: 2002
- Directed by: Andy Tennant
New York fashion designer Melanie (Reese Witherspoon) suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. But Melanie's past holds many secrets, including Jake (Josh Lucas), the ...more - 9Amanda Bynes, James Kirk, Channing Tatum
- Released: 2006
- Directed by: Andy Fickman
Viola Johnson (Amanda Bynes) is in a real jam. Complications threaten her scheme to pose as her twin brother, Sebastian, and take his place at a new boarding school. She falls in love with her ...more - 10Will Smith, Eva Mendes, Kevin James
- Released: 2005
- Directed by: Andy Tennant
Dating coach Alex "Hitch" Hitchens (Will Smith) mentors a bumbling client, Albert (Kevin James), who hopes to win the heart of the glamorous Allegra Cole (Amber Valletta). While Albert makes ...more - 11Katherine Heigl, James Marsden, Malin Akerman
- Released: 2008
- Directed by: Anne Fletcher
Perennial bridesmaid Jane (Katherine Heigl) always puts the needs of others before her own, making her the go-to gal whenever someone needs help with wedding plans. So when Jane's younger sister Tess ...more - 12Jennifer Lopez, Matthew McConaughey, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras
- Released: 2001
- Directed by: Adam Shankman
While celebrating her newest and most lucrative account -- the wedding of Internet tycoon Fran Donelly (Bridgette Wilson-Sampras) -- Mary (Jennifer Lopez) is rescued from a near-fatal collision with ...more - 13Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Nicole Kidman
- Released: 2011
- Directed by: Dennis Dugan
His heart recently broken, plastic surgeon Danny Maccabee (Adam Sandler) pretends to be married so he can enjoy future dates with no strings attached. His web of lies works, but when he meets Palmer ...more - 14Emma Stone, Penn Badgley, Amanda Bynes
- Released: 2010
- Directed by: Will Gluck
Prompted by her popular best friend to spill details of her boring weekend, Olive (Emma Stone), a clean-cut teen, decides to spice things up by telling a little lie about losing her virginity. When ...more - 15Zac Efron, Leslie Mann, Thomas Lennon
- Released: 2009
- Directed by: Burr Steers
Mike O'Donnell (Matthew Perry) was a high-school basketball star with a bright future, but he threw it all away to marry his girlfriend and raise their child. Almost 20 years later, Mike's marriage ...more - 16Freddie Prinze, Rachael Leigh Cook, Matthew Lillard
- Released: 1999
- Directed by: Robert Iscove
High school hotshot Zach Siler (Freddie Prinze Jr.) is the envy of his peers. But his popularity declines sharply when his cheerleader girlfriend, Taylor (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe), leaves him for sleazy ...more - 17Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Christine Taylor
- Released: 1998
- Directed by: Frank Coraci
Set in 1985, Adam Sandler plays a nice guy with a broken heart who's stuck in one of the most romantic jobs in the world, a wedding singer. He loses all hope when he is abandoned at the altar by his ...more - 18Drew Barrymore, David Arquette, Michael Vartan
- Released: 1999
- Directed by: Raja Gosnell
Josie Geller (Drew Barrymore), a baby-faced junior copywriter at the Chicago Sun-Times, must pose as a student at her former high school to research contemporary teenage culture. With the help of her ...more - 19Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Hugh Bonneville
- Released: 1999
- Directed by: Roger Michell
William Thacker (Hugh Grant) is a London bookstore owner whose humdrum existence is thrown into romantic turmoil when famous American actress Anna Scott (Julia Roberts) appears in his shop. A chance ...more - 20Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz
- Released: 1997
- Directed by: P.J. Hogan
Childhood friends Julianne Potter (Julia Roberts) and Michael O'Neal (Dermot Mulroney) had a deal to marry each other if they were still single by age 28. Now, four days before her 28th birthday, ...more - 21Amanda Bynes, Colin Firth, Kelly Preston
- Released: 2003
- Directed by: Dennie Gordon
On a whim, American teenager Daphne (Amanda Bynes) boards a plane to England to find the father she never met. Upon arriving there, though, she makes a startling discovery: The man she's looking for ...more - 22Heath Ledger, Mark Addy, Rufus Sewell
- Released: 2001
- Directed by: Brian Helgeland
Peasant-born William Thatcher (Heath Ledger) begins a quest to change his stars, win the heart of an exceedingly fair maiden (Shanynn Sossamon) and rock his medieval world. With the help of friends ...more - 23Kristen Bell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sigourney Weaver
- Released: 2010
- Directed by: Andy Fickman
High school was hell for Marni (Kristen Bell), so she is horrified to learn that her brother's fiancee is Joanna, the nemesis of her teen years. Marni intends to expose Joanna's evil side to her ...more - 24Reese Witherspoon, Mark Ruffalo, Donal Logue
- Released: 2005
- Directed by: Mark Waters
David (Mark Ruffalo) is a recently widowed architect moving into a new apartment in San Francisco. But the apartment isn't entirely empty; it's haunted by the ghost of a woman named Elizabeth (Reese ...more - 25Molly Ringwald, Jon Cryer, Andrew McCarthy
- Released: 1986
- Directed by: Howard Deutch
Andie (Molly Ringwald) is an outcast at her Chicago high school, hanging out either with her older boss (Annie Potts), who owns the record store where she works, or her quirky classmate Duckie (Jon ...more
