best love stories

"cousins" --ted danson at his finest; lovely score; adultery at its purest

"l.a. story" --wonderful, wonderful, wonderful

"hedwig and the angry inch" --clever; heartbreaking; bursting with hope

"a little romance" --soft and european with laurence olivier as an unlikely chaperone

"wind" --all blue skies and crisp sails... i'd have taken modine back, too

"beautiful girls" --michael rapaport, enough said

"breaking away" --a serenade in italian followed by a bike ride

"before sunrise" --no gimmicks, no explosions, no violence, just conversation

"the graduate" --what happens after they get on the bus, who cares!

"pride and prejudice" --showing generations of headstrong chicks to hold out for number one