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No, your favourite couples aren't canon.
Growing up watching rom-coms, I have always romanticized the idea of finding the one true love, you know, finding one's soulmate. I wanted the Hollywood style love — over the top gestures, running after them to the airport and all that. Now that I am an adult, I realize that real-life starts after the movie ends.
While it is the norm for the lead couple to get together at the end of a romantic movie, the truth is some of them really shouldn't have. In this Reddit thread by u/SalaciousDumb, people are pointing out couples who would have broken up after the movie ended — and I agree with most of them.
1. Nate And Andy From The Devil Wears Prada
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"Anne Hathaway and Adrian Grenier were probably going to stay separated — her ambition would have probably carried her off into some other adventure whereas his move to Boston was likely going to become the final nail in the coffin." —/xVIRIDISx
2. Andrew and Sam in Garden State
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"That was one of the most shallow, idealistic on-screen relationships I think I’ve ever seen. Give it like a month and I bet they realize they severely dislike each other." —u/Jeff___Lebowski
3. Bruce and Selina in The Dark Knight Rises
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"Bruce and Selina from The Dark Knight Rises don't seem like a particularly stable couple to me." —u/emcoffey3
4. Claire and John in The Breakfast Club
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"Molly Ringwald and Judd Nelson in The Breakfast Club. All he is to her is someone to annoy Daddy. He’s also mentally scarred and a loose cannon that will probably end up in jail within a couple of years." —u/BojackStrowman
5. Joel and Clementine from Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
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"My girlfriend and I constantly disagree about the ending of Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind. I agree they will certainly just go through the same breakup and loss over again and look at the movie as having a tragically sad ending." —u/jfstompers
6. Ben and Jo in Twister
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"Disaster films like Twister, where a divorced couple reconnect during a crisis, I bet wouldn't last a year before they'd break up again." —u/MovieMike007
7. Benjamin and Elaine in The Graduate
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"That last scene really says it all." —u/HeyyyJayyy
8. Diane and Lloyd in Say Anything
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"Their relationship was already troubled. Taking that to a foreign country is probably going to add more pressures to an already strained relationship, not make it better." —u/TeamStark31
9. Sandy And Danny in Grease
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10. Kirk and Molly in She's Out of My League
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"Because she's out of his league and he'll sooner or later mess it up for that very reason." —u/Aesop-Ben
11. Ben and Allison in Knocked Up
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"Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl in Knocked Up. He is too immature and she’s too stuck up, LOL."
12. Tom and Violet in The Five Year Engagement
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"They brought out the worst in each other and I was actively hoping that they would stay apart at the end of the movie." —u/nayapapaya
13. Nick and Catherine in Basic Instinct
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"Pretty sure Nick and Catherine had a messy breakup shortly after the events in Basic Instinct" —u/Obi_Wan_Benobi
14. Truman and Sylvia from The Truman Show
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"I could imagine that falling apart pretty quick. They'd probably be blissfully happy at first, but Truman's major trust issues would cause some serious problems." —u/HowPrude
15. Henry and Lucy in 50 First Dates
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"What a sweet idea and plot that in reality wouldn't work after a few weeks because having to go through the same routine every fucking day would grind you down to nothing in short order.
I don't care if you were a saint, after a while, you would just walk away and honestly because she wouldn't remember anything, you wouldn't be the bad man at all." —u/Love_To_Burn_Fiji
16. Tianna and the Prince from The Princess and The Frog
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"They were bickering with each other throughout most of the film. I don't see how that's going to end up as a happy marriage." —u/muffle64
17. John and Melora in Magnolia
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"Their relationship was beautiful. But I can’t see working out at all long term with the amount of emotional baggage she was still carrying at the end of the film. Not to mention she’s a drug addict and he’s a very law-abiding cop. That would be bound to create complications eventually. I feel like they’d try their best to make it work but it would ultimately end in them splitting up." —u/KrillinDBZ363
18. Victor Laslo and Ilsa in Casablanca
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"I think she'd get sick of him and go back to Rick after a few years." —u/albandero
19. Debra and Baby in Baby Driver
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"Debra and Baby from Baby Driver 100% would not make it long. The only reason she was thereafter he got out of jail is that she was single at the time, in my mind anyway." —u/Alwynson
20. Pat and Tiffany in Silver Linings Playbook
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"Dancing won't cure their mental illnesses, they're right back to screaming at each other 5 minutes after the credits roll." —u/ScreamingGordita
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