21 rom-coms you've (maybe) never seen before - Girl Culture

Rom-com queen Sanaa Lathan is best known for classics like *Love & Basketball* and *Brown Sugar*, but she’s equally great in this lesser known 2006 vehicle about interracial dating. Before *Happiest Season,* there was *Imagine Me & You—*a lesbian love story wrapped up in a classic, cheesy rom-com package. After 1974’s *Claudine* and 1992’s *Boomerang* both tried and failed to inspire Hollywood to make more rom-coms with Black leads, it was *Love Jones* that finally got the timing right. One of my favorite discoveries from When Romance Met Comedy, *Saving Face* is one-half lesbian love story, one-half mother/daughter relationship dramedy, and one of the few American rom-coms with an all-Asian cast.