New love. New life. Maybe...

Make sure the tissues are handy when you watch these films about second chances in life, second chances at love. Do we ever really doubt that things will work out? List compiled by Eileen J.

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Autumn in New York

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In a May-December romance, an aging playboy falls in love with a much younger woman who faces a life-threatening illness.

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The Full Monty

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Six unemployed men, in desperation, attempt to make money by becoming male strippers. The hilarious try-outs and practice sessions are interspersed with poignant glances at unemployment, fragile family bonds and friendship.

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As Good as It Gets

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An obsessive-compulsive romance writer and a single mother/waitress share an unlikely romance.

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Hope Floats

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When a woman discovers on a talk show that her husband has cheated on her with her best friend, she takes her daughter back home to the small Texas town where she grew up. She copes with catty townspeople, an eccentric mother and attempts to resist the charms of a romantic carpenter.

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The Horse Whisperer

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When the daughter of a busy career woman is injured while riding her horse, her mother takes her and the injured horse to Montana and the mysterious horse whisperer.

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Message in a Bottle

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When a divorced mom finds a message in a bottle she traces it to a man grieving for his dead wife.

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Moonstruck

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Against the backdrop of a riotous Italian-American family, a woman whose luck with marriage has been all bad becomes engaged to a safe man and then finds passion with his complicated brother.

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On a Clear Day

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55-year old Frank loses his job and must struggle to regain his sense of self worth, mend faltering relationships and put to rest some old demons. He decides to train to swim the English Channel and is cheered on by loving but bumbling friends.

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Parent Trap

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Twins, separated at birth, reunite at summer camp and begin scheming to reunite their divorced parents.

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Return to Me

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A architect whose wife has died in a car accident is very lonely and not quite ready to move on. He meets a waitress who is the transplant recipient of his wife‘s heart and must decide whether he loves the new woman or the memory of his wife.

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Rookie

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A thirty-something high school baseball coach missed his chance at professional baseball because of a shoulder injury. He issues a challenge to his losing baseball team and they counter with their own: If they win the district championship, he has to try out for the major leagues.

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Sleepless in Seattle

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An architect/dad is grieving for his dead wife and his son is grieving for his mother. When it‘s obvious the man is struggling to move on he decides to move across the country to make a fresh start. His young son gives him a push in the direction of a new love.

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Tin Cup

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A never-was golf pro, who has sunk to running a golf range in a dusty Texas town, decides to try to win the heart of his rival‘s girlfriend by entering the U. S. Open.

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Truly Madly Deeply

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Set in England, this is the witty and moving story of a woman whose beloved boyfriend dies suddenly. She is so distraught that her boyfriend‘s ghost appears and continues to live with her until he can gently nudge her forward.

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Under the Tuscan Sun

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A writer‘s divorce leaves her flattened, but friends persuade her to join a tour of the Italian countryside. On a whim she buys a dilapidated farmhouse in Tuscany and draws to her new home a quirky assortment of friends and workmen and throws herself into the renovation of her new home and the rediscovery of life and love.