The 6 Best Things About '90s Rom-Coms

It all started in 1990 with Pretty Woman. This movie had it all: Julia Roberts at the height of her stardom, an irresistible Cinderella plot, and quotable lines (is it bad that I still use "Big mistake. Big! Huge!" in my everyday vernacular?). But Julia Roberts didn't stop there. She also gave us My Best Friend's Wedding, Something to Talk About, I Love Trouble, and Runaway Bride.

Star-crossed (country-crossed?) lovers. Bitter enemies. Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks. The stuff rom-com dreams are made of.

In Sleepless in Seattle, we don’t even know if the stars have chemistry, because they don’t get together until the final minutes. We fall in love with them anyway. In You’ve Got Mail, we see that they’ve got chemistry to spare, making them the quintessential romantic comedy duo. Is it wrong to want them to team up just one more time? (Perhaps that's why Joe Versus the Volcano — the first time they ever teamed up — has become a cult classic?).

Clueless is, simply stated, the ultimate rom-com. The 1995 flick was even based on a Jane Austen novel, for god's sake. It had the outfits (and that computer outfit generator — why isn't there an app for that?!) and the soundtrack (good luck getting "Rollin' With the Homies” out of your head). It had more quotable lines than I can mention ("As if!"), and it's the movie that spawned a nationwide crush on Paul Rudd. If you don't swoon when Paul Rudd's Josh tells Alicia Silverstone's Cher, "You know you're gorgeous, all right?", then I don't even want to know you.

But 1995 also brought us While You Were Sleeping, and we all fell in love again. Only this time, it was with Sandra Bullock. Yes, Peter Gallagher was ridiculously handsome, even as he lay lifeless in a coma, but it was Sandy who made us want to adopt her into our own families.

The late '90s gave us She's All That, Can't Hardly Wait, Drive Me Crazy, and 10 Things I Hate About You. You didn't have to be a teen to feel like one, remembering what it was like to long to be cool, fit in, and have a date to the prom.

There's a reason they're remaking them. Freddie Prinze Jr. doing an impromptu rap with a hacky sack. Heath Ledger singing an unforgettable rendition of "Can't Take My Eyes Off You." Need I say more?

You know the one. It’s the thing we're still saying all these years later.

• "You complete me."
• "You had me at hello."
• "Toe pick!"
• "I'm also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her."
• "You see how picky I am about my shoes, and they only go on my feet."

I don't even have to tell you which movie's which, right?