8. The Proposal (2009)
Time and time again, you see that success is all about being in the right place at the right time. How many love stories come about by chance, or happy accident? Thats the sort of thing you cant control, but you can definitely influence. If youre smart, you find a way to put yourself in fortunes future path. There are certain types of very successful business women who are constantly teetering on the edge of emotional, psychological or financial ruin. Their destructive tunnel vision, their sacrifice of personal relationships for the sake of career, always takes its toll and often leads to disaster. So why not find a woman like this and become her assistant? Sooner or later, shell get in big trouble, and shell have to depend on you in a desperate and intimate fashion. In the Proposal, Sandra Bullock lives her life in such a way that she is on the verge of being deported. Ryan Reynolds is forced to step in and save her Canadian bacon with a charade of matrimony, which of course blossoms into true love. Simply because Ryan Reynolds was in the vicinity of a workaholic primed to implode, he was able to obtain a loving marriage based on mutual respect and intense sexuality.