I’m back to share some more of those classic Instant Videos whose prices have been slashed this week! If you’re in the process of replacing your DVDs and Blu-rays with digital videos, now’s the time to grab these favorite romantic comedies and dramedies, plus some classic love stories. They’ve been marked down to about 30% off their usual retail prices of $9.49-$9.99, just in time for Valentine’s Day.
Note: All movie descriptions are from IMDB.com.
Sleepless in Seattle (PG, 4.75/5 stars, currently priced at $6.99 to buy)
After his wife Maggie passes away, Sam Baldwin and his adolescent son Jonah relocate from Chicago to Seattle to escape the grief associated with Maggie’s death. Eighteen months later, Sam is still grieving and can’t sleep. Although Jonah misses his mother, he wants his father to get a new wife despite Sam having not even contemplated dating again.
On Christmas Eve, Sam, on Jonah’s initiative, ends up pouring his heart out on a national radio talk show about his magical and perfect marriage to Maggie, and how much he still misses her. Among the many women who hears Sam’s story and falls in love with him solely because of it is Annie Reed, a Baltimore based newspaper writer.
Annie’s infatuation with Sam’s story and by association Sam himself is despite being already engaged. But Annie’s relationship with her straight-laced fiancé Walter is unlike her dream love life in the movie An Affair to Remember…
– Written by Huggo
You’ve Got Mail (PG, 4/5 stars, closed-captions enabled, currently priced at $2.99 to rent and 6.99 to buy) – Hanks and Ryan are back in this fan favorite!
This sweet romantic comedy reunites “Sleepless In Seattle” stars Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks.
He’s the owner of a bookstore chain; she’s the woman he falls for online.
Both are unaware that she runs the little shop his company is trying to shut down.
– Written by Kris Hopson
Across The Universe (PG-13, 4/5 stars, currently priced at $6.99 to buy)
Across The Universe is a fictional love story set in the 1960s amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, the struggle for free speech and civil rights, mind exploration and rock and roll.
At once gritty, whimsical and highly theatrical, the story moves from high schools and universities in Massachusetts, Princeton and Ohio to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Detroit riots, Vietnam and the dockyards of Liverpool.
A combination of live action and animation, the film is paired with many songs by The Beatles that defined the time. – Written by Anonymous
The Wedding Singer (PG-13, 4.75/5 stars, currently priced at $2.99 to rent and $6.99 to buy)
Robbie Hart is singing the hits of the 1980s at weddings and other celebrations. He also can keep the party going in good spirit, he knows what to say and when to say it.
Julia is a waitress at the events where Robbie performs.
When both of them find someone to marry and prepare for their weddings, it becomes clear that they’ve chosen wrong partners.
– Written by Anonymous
Dirty Dancing (PG-13, 4.75/5 stars, currently priced at $1.99 to rent and $6.99 to buy)
In 1963, Frances “Baby” Houseman, a sweet daddy’s girl, goes with her family to a resort in upstate New York’s Catskill Mountains. Baby has grown up in privileged surroundings and all expect her to go on to college, join the Peace Corps and save the world before marrying a doctor, just like her father.
Unexpectedly, Baby becomes infatuated with the camp’s dance instructor, Johnny Castle, a man whose background is vastly different from her own. Baby lies to her father to get money to pay for an illegal abortion for Johnny’s dance partner. She then fills in as Johnny’s dance partner and it is as he is teaching her the dance routine that they fall in love.
It all comes apart when Johnny’s friend falls seriously ill after her abortion and Baby gets her father, who saves the girl’s life. He then learns what Baby has been up to, who with and worse – that he funded the illegal abortion. He bans his daughter from any further association with “those people”, [but Baby decides to defy her father for the first time in her life].
– Written by Amanda W, amended by Linda C.
Casablanca (PG, 4.75/5 stars, currently priced at $1.99 to rent and $6.99 to buy)
In World War II Casablanca, Rick Blaine, exiled American and former freedom fighter, runs the most popular nightspot in town. The cynical lone wolf Blaine comes into the possession of two valuable letters of transit.
When Nazi Major Strasser arrives in Casablanca, the sycophantic police Captain Renault does what he can to please him, including detaining a Czechoslovak underground leader Victor Laszlo.
Much to Rick’s surprise, Lazslo arrives with Ilsa, Rick’s one time love. Rick is very bitter towards Ilsa, who ran out on him in Paris, but when he learns she had good reason to, they plan to run off together again using the letters of transit. Well, that was their original plan….
– Written by Gary Jackson
Gone With the Wind (G, 4.75/5 stars, currently priced at $1.99 to rent and $6.99 to buy) – Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable star in cinema’s greatest epic of passion and adventure. With its magnificent cinematography and sweeping score, this proves to be a cherished classic.
The epic tale of a woman’s life during one of the most tumultuous periods in America’s history.
From her young, innocent days on a feudalistic plantation to the war-torn streets of Atlanta; from her first love whom she has always desired; to three husbands; from the utmost luxury to absolute starvation and poverty; from her innocence to her understanding and comprehension of life.
– Written by Luke C.
Doctor Zhivago (PG-13, 4.75/5 stars, currently priced at $1.99 to rent and $6.99 to buy)
Set just before and in the years following the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, the filme follows the life of Zhivago as he marries, raises a family, has his life totally disrupted by first World War One, and then by the Revolution.
Shown against the Epic of a world turned on its head, his life and freedom are torn from him as the new society makes demands.
– Written by John Vogel
There are many more, and they’re not just romantic comedies and love stories. Click here to browse the full list of Instant Videos currently priced at $6.98-$6.99 to own.