5 Films to Match Your Park Slope Love Life

Is there anything worse than sitting down to escape with a good movie and finding that you've chosen the wrong one? Within the first 10 minutes you realize that Sex and the City was not the film to choose as just last week your sorry ass was jilted at the alter? Never fear! FiPS is offering up a list films set in the Big Apple to guide you through this season of love -- all custom tailored to fit your tax-filing status. From relationships to relationshits, we gotcha covered.

 

1. Married with children: Date Night 

Tina Fey and Steve Carell play a suburban New Jersey couple stuck in a humdrum monotonous -- excuse me, monogomous -- marriage. The highlight of their week is a ritual date night at the equivalent of Apple Bees, where they pretend they're not jealous of nearby, overly amourous couples. Their sex life is hindered by mouth gaurds and flatulence. Sound familiar? FYL. Watch this movie and learn how to woo the old ball and chain with a crazy night out in Manhattan, complete with your wife shaking her money makers in a strip club. Or just walk a few blocks to Lucky 13 Saloon on a Tuesday night and achieve a simliar effect. Think of it as Adventures in Babysitting but with adults up to the hijinks. And a shirtless Mark Wahlberg. Warning: you may be inspired to bone on your front lawn, or stoop, as the Park Slope case may be.

 

2. Bi-curious: Kissing Jessica Stein

Ladies: are you thinking of taking a walk over to the softer side of Sears? Check out this charming film about a Type A copywriter, Jessica Stein, who is frustrated by a countless string of bad dates with men (these men are so pathetic they'd bend even the straightest of women). Then Jessica answers an ad in the newspaper that was placed by a woman -- it was 2001 after all; Match wouldn't come around for another 4 years. This Rilke quote in Helen's profile draws her in:

“It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before any sort of new, unforeseeable experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope. But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical will live the relation to another as something alive.” 

Now that is some good shit right there. You taking notes? Thus begins a charming and comedic relationship between two polar opposite young women, who teach one another the secrets of "blending" lipstick and the meaning of "ugly-cute." Allow the sultry Helen teach you how to seduce women and head on over to Ginger's. 

3. Friends with Benefits: When Harry Met Sally

No, I'm not going to recommend the obvious Friends with Benefits, or its equally moronic counter-part No Strings Attached. In Nora Ephron's classic 1989 romantic comedy starring Billy Crystal & Meg Ryan, we follow our lead characters through twelve years of chance encounters in New York City. The film raises the question:

 

"Can men and women ever just be friends?" 

So they shag and put this question to the test. Judging by the terribly awkward poist coital behavior of these two, they are not the poster kids for friends with benefits. But man do they have some on screen chemistry. 
So grab your boy toy friend, watch this film and then take him to Daisy's Diner to show off your fake O-face so he can say, while blushing, "I'll have what she's having."

 

4. Single and Sappy: Serendipity 

In a world where 1 in 4 couples meet online, this film offers up some good old-fashioned serendipitous encounters between John Cousack and Kate Beckinsale . By the end, you'll be hanging out at Bloomingdales waiting for your soul mate to try on black cashmere gloves and salivating over ice cream at Serendipty 3. Side note, have you tried their frozen hot chocolate? Dear God. So take that solo walk in Prospect Park and sit on a bench waiting for your meetcute. But if you think you found the love of your life, please spare yourself the fate of our leading man and get his or her last name before parting ways. I wouldn't count on it all working out in the end. Or maybe it will? 

5. Objectum Sexuals: Brooklyn Bridge

While peeps who lust for inanimate objects comprise a small percentage of you, after viewing the fascinating documentary Married to the Eiffel Tower, we wanted to make sure you were represented. Brooklyn Bridge, a 1981 Academy Award-nominated Documentary, Feature chronicles the construction and impact of the Brooklyn Bridge with plenty of close-up structural details that will make you swoon.  Even platonically speaking, the Brooklyn Bridge is a sight to behold so for those who are randy for choir pews, fighting swords and carnival rides, knock yourselves out with this one.

 

What's your favorite NYC-based love or loveless films? Do tell!