7 Unconventional Love Stories in the Movies that Go Beyond “Boy Meets Girl”

When it comes to personal preference for movie genres, my taste falls somewhere within the sappy genre. I am a complete sucker for complicated romance and tear-jerkers and sob stories and heart-string yankers. For the most part, if there is a love story within these films, no matter how quirky or unusual the plot may be, it still ends up being a pretty formulaic version of boy meets girl and all becomes right with the world. While I adore a conventional love story I also seriously appreciate unconventional love stories. So many of us know all kinds of flavors of love in our lives. We know the love of our parents, our teachers, our friends. Some of us know the love of a partner, wife or husband or the love of a child as either a parent or as a loving adult in a child's life. Movies have been beautifully telling these unconventional love stories for years. These are just a few of my favorites I'll be falling in love with (again) this month. -Dresden Shumaker

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