When looking at the best romantic comedies of all time , the 1990s loom large in the discussion. It was a great decade for movies in general, but rom-coms seemed to really shine then. It was a perfect storm of charming A-listers at the peak of their wooing powers, a general sense of hope for the future, and the last gasps of meet-cutes that were entirely offline and non-digital. Many giants in the rom-com filmmaker pantheon (like Nancy Meyers, Nora Ephron, Garry Marshall, and Richard Curtis) started in and/or did their best work in the '90s.

In a period stuffed with so much undisputed rom-com greatness, anything but the absolute best or most popular works either got lost in the shuffle or haven't lingered in the collective consciousness. For every "Notting Hill," "Sleepless in Seattle," "

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