List of films featuring May-December romances

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List of movies featuring May-December romances.

This is a list of mainstream movies featuring significant 'May-December' romances, where the age differential between the two adults is wide enough to risk social disapproval.

In each of the films listed below, the age difference is a major part of the film plot. (Note: Large age differences between romantic leads in pre-1950 movies were fairly common.)

Contents 1 Older Man/ Younger Woman 2 Older Woman/ Younger Man 3 Older Man/ Younger Man 4 Older Woman/ Younger Woman 5 References

[edit] Older Man/ Younger Woman

• Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye (2001)
• American Beauty (1999) — Kevin Spacey (39), Mena Suvari (19)
• Atlantic City (1980)^[1] — Burt Lancaster (66), Susan Sarandon (33)
• Autumn in New York (2000)^[2] — Richard Gere (50), Winona Ryder (27)
• The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005) — Daniel Day-Lewis (46), Camilla Belle (16)
• Beautiful Girls (1996)
• Bulworth (1998)
• Chaplin (1992)
• Charade (1963)
• The Crush (1993)^[1]
• Damage (1992)
• Der blaue Engel (1930)
• The Edge (1997)
• Election (1999)
• Forty Carats (1973)^[3]
• Frida (2002)
• Funny Face (1957)
• Ghost World (2001)
• Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
• Great Balls of Fire! (1989)
• Gigi (1958)
• Girl with Green Eyes (1964)^[1]
• Goldfish Memory (2003)
• As Good as It Gets (1997)^[3]
• The Governess (1998)
• Gregory's Two Girls (1999)
• Guinevere (1999)^[1]
• Happy Endings (2005)
• To Have and Have Not (1944)^[3]
• The Horse Whisperer (1998)^[3]
• Husbands and Wives (1992)
• Ikiru (1952)
• Interview with the Vampire (1994)^[4]
• Jane Eyre (1944)
• Knickerbocker Holiday (1944)
• L.A. Story (1991)
• Last Tango in Paris (1972)^[4]
• Limelight (1952)
• Little Women (1994)
• Lolita (1962)^[4]
• Lost In Translation (2003)^[4]
• Love in the Afternoon (1957)^[4]
• Manhattan (1979)^[5]
• Me Without You (2001)
• A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)
• Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
• My First Mister (2001)
• The Opposite of Sex (1998)
• Palindromes (film) (2004)
• A Perfect Murder (1998)^[3]
• Petulia (1968)
• Poison Ivy (1992)
• Sabrina (1954)^[3]
• Secretary (2001)
• Shopgirl (2005)^[6]
• Sin City (2005)^[7][8]
• Six Days Seven Nights (1998)^[3]
• Something's Gotta Give (2003)^[4]
• Stealing Beauty (1996)
• The Professional (aka Leon) (1994)
• It Started in Naples (1970)^[3]
• Taxi Driver (1976)
• Twinky (1969)
• Under Solen (1998)
• What Have They Done To Solange? (1972)
• Wish You Were Here (1987)

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• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)^[4]
• All That Heaven Allows^[4]
• American Pie Movies
• Being Julia (2004)
• Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) (Character Paul "Fred" Varjak's relationship with an older "matron" figure.)
• Class (1983)
• Diva (1981)
• The Door in the Floor (2004)
• The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
• Sunset Boulevard (1950)
• Far from Heaven^[4]
• The Good Girl (2002)
• The Graduate (1967)^[4]
• Green Chair
• Harold and Maude (1971)^[4]
• How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)^[4]
• Impromptu (1992)
• In the Bedroom (2001)
• The Love Letter (1999)^[1]
• Lovely and Amazing (2001)
• The Mother (2003)^[1]
• A Night in Heaven (1983)
• Notes on a Scandal (2006)
• P.S. (2005)^[9]
• Prime (2005)
• Rushmore (1998)
• Something's Gotta Give (2003)
• Summer of '42 (1971)
• Tadpole (2002)
• Tim (1979)^[4]
• White Palace (1990)
• Y Tu Mama Tambien

[edit] Older Man/ Younger Man

• Total Eclipse (1995)
• Wilde (1997)
• Love Is The Devil: Study For A Portrait Of Francis Bacon (1998)

[edit] Older Woman/ Younger Woman

• Desert Hearts (1985)
• I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987)

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f} May-December Romance movie reviews. MovieRevie.ws. Retrieved on 2007-02-28.
2. ^ FILM REVIEW; May-December Romance? Or Simply Hot and Cold?. New York Times. Retrieved on 2007-02-27.
3. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h} Pittman, Frank (Jan, 1999). Beware Older Women Ahead - older women dating younger men in the movies - Abstract. Psychology Today. Retrieved on 2007-02-27.
4. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m} To honor May, we offer up movie relationships that know no age limit. MSN. Retrieved on 2007-02-27.
5. ^ Jacobson, Colin. Manhattan 1979. DVD Movie Guide. Retrieved on 2007-02-27.
6. ^ Mayer, Andre. True Romance Shopgirl is that Hollywood rarity: a plausible love story. CBC.ca. Retrieved on 2007-02-27.
7. ^ Hartigan: There's wrong and there's wrong and then there's this. For God's sake, you're just a kid!
   Nancy: I love you.
   Hartigan: I love you, too. With all my heart.
8. ^ Webb, Marcus. Hot in the city. Retrieved on March 1, 2007.
9. ^ National Society of Film Critics Poss: P.S.. Zap2It.com. Retrieved on 2007-02-27.