He plays an angry young man who is healed by the love of a pretty girl, played by Lost's Emilie de Ravin.

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Though Pham sometimes veers dangerously into melodrama (there's another moment when he breaks down upon spying a beggar girl who reminds him of a past love), the sentiment is not misplaced.

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The product of a 1950s love affair between a naive girl and her older, married employer, the author had managed contentedly with warm, inclusive adoptive parents into her thirties.

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What causes the change is the plight of her son (Won Bin), a simple, love-smothered boy who is accused, on flimsy testimony, of killing a local girl.

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Her inspiration was Laura Esquivel's "Like Water for Chocolate, " the story of a Mexican girl who expresses her love through cooking, including one meal made with rose petals.

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The culmination of the Twilight movie franchise, which tells the story of a human girl who falls in love with a sullen vampire, fared relatively well with critics but the Razzies claimed it had sucked the life out of cinemas.

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Over the course of the next two years he fell in love with a local girl, married, and lost her to breast cancer.

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He says that while Bollywood Jane in part sticks to the typical Bollywood formula - where boy meets girl who fall in love after a series of tribulations - the production has a sting in its tail.

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We can sit and try to make sense of why one kind of match would work or not work for a global girl, but we must concede that love is messy and unpredictable.

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