It was a time when a floppy-haired Hugh Grant politely stammered his way into our hearts, when Julia Roberts’ mega-watt charisma had us all head over heels and when a poster of two big-name stars standing back-to-back had the power to propel millions of people into the cinema. From the Nineties into the mid-Noughties, the film industry was infatuated with the romantic comedy.
This boom for the genre cemented the careers of stars from Jennifer Lopez to Reese Witherspoon, Meg Ryan to Matthew McConaughey; we watched them declare their love to one another by running across airport terminals, commandeering press conferences and turning up on doorsteps in the pouring rain.
