What is Pa.’s favorite romantic movie? Study released just in time for Valentine’s Day – pennlive.com
What are you doing for Valentine’s Day?
Wine? Chocolate? Hallmark card? Dinner out? A movie?
Killthecablebill.com can help you with the movie thing. The company recently released information compiled by Mindnet Analytics that determined the “Top Romantic Movie Each State Loves.”
In Pennsylvania that would be the romantic comedy, “The Philadelphia Story.” Yep, a movie released in 1940. Perhaps its appeal is the star-studded cast – Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant and James Stewart. The movie was also the favorite in Nebraska.
Screen actress Katharine Hepburn is shown in the 1940 film “The Philadelphia Story.” (AP Photo )ASSOCIATED PRESS
The movie that was the favorite in the most states was “Stolen Kisses” – in Illinois, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee and Wisconsin.
“Stolen Kisses” is a little more recent. It was released in 1968. It stars Jean-Pierre Leaud, Claude Jade and Delphine Seyring and is also a romantic comedy.
Other movies selected by multiple states were:
“Her” – Alabama, Maryland and North Carolina
“Once” – Arizona, California and Oregon
“Now, Voyager” – Idaho, Louisiana and Washington
“Ghost” – Colorado and Ohio
“Say Anything” – Connecticut and Hawaii
“Weekend” – Indiana and Michigan
“West Side Story” – New Jersey and Wyoming
Killthecablebill.com described the methodology, “The folks at Mindnet Analytics started with the top 100 best fresh romantic movies from Rotten Tomatoes in order to determine a set of candidate movies that each could possibly be obsessed with.
From there, they searched each movie on Google trends using state-wise search frequencies. So, for example, a search for ‘Gone With The Wind’ may have shown that people in Georgia searched that film more than any other state. (Of course, ‘Gone With The Wind’ takes place in Georgia, which is why The Peach State is most obsessed with it.)
This doesn’t mean that the fine people of Georgia necessarily searched for ‘Gone With The Wind’ more than any other movie. It just means they searched for that movie more than any other state.
Now, some movies, like ‘Her,’ come with a fairly ambiguous Google search result. In those instances, Google Trend search filter category 34 was used to only account for movies.
Only search frequencies from Feb. 1, 2019, through Jan. 31, 2020, were analyzed.”
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Here is the entire list of favorite movies:
Alabama, Maryland, North Carolina – “Her”
Alaska – “The Princess Bride”
Arizona, California, Oregon – “Once”
Arkansas – “The Shape of Water”
Colorado, Ohio – “Ghost”
Connecticut, Hawaii – “Say Anything”
Delaware – “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
Florida – “Beauty and the Beast”
George – “Gone With the Wind”
Idaho, Louisiana, Washington – “Now, Voyager”
Illinois, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee, Wisconsin – “Stolen Kisses”
Indiana, Michigan – “Weekend”
Iowa – “Southside With You”
Kansas – “Manhattan”
Maine – “Singin’ In the Rain”
Massachusetts – “Wings of Desire”
Minnesota – “All That Heaven Allows”
Mississippi – “An Officer and a Gentleman”
Missouri – “The Shop Around the Corner”
Montana – “Cyrano de Bergerac”
Nebraska, Pennsylvania – “The Philadelphia Story”
Nevada – “A Room with a View”
New Hampshire – “My Beautiful Laundrette”
New Jersey and Wyoming – “West Side Story”
New Mexico – “Lost in Translation”
New York – “Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans”
North Dakota – “Away From Her”
Oklahoma – “It Happened One Night”
Rhode Island – “Before Sunrise”
South Dakota – “City Lights”
Texas – “Casablanca”
Utah – “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg”
Vermont – “Wuthering Heights”
Virginia – “A Very Long Engagement”
Washington, D.C. – “Letter From an Unknown Woman”
West Virginia – “Bright Star”
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