98 - "Forget Paris" (1995)

     This is one movie on the list that I don't think a lot of people may have seen and that's unfortunate. Forget Paris is a very underrated comedy and there are several times in the film when I find myself laughing out loud. Billy Crystal stars as Mickey Gordon, an NBA referee who loses his father and takes his body to Paris where his father helped fight WWII and his last wish was to be buried next to where his war friends passed away. While in Paris, Mickey meets a woman named Ellen, played by the wonderful actress Debra Winger. The two have an instant chemistry together and start dating. Mickey convinces Ellen to come back to the States and the two begin an on-again, off-again relationship. This doesn't sound like a typical comedy plot but trust me, the laughs come fast and furious. Some of the funniest scenes deal with Mickey doing his job as an NBA referee. He is several feet shorter than most of the players and this fact alone leads to a lot of good laughs. The romantic-comedy genre is one of my least favorites and I can tell you ahead of time that there will not be a lot of them on this list, but Forget Paris is too good to be omitted. If you haven't seen it, make sure you find it somewhere and give it a shot, I don't think you will regret it.