5. Maid in Manhattan (2002)

I half-watched this movie while playing Scrabble, so I didn’t play close attention to the details. But I saw enough to see that they had a scene filmed on a train that actually looked like the subway. It may even have been the 6, which Jennifer Lopez named her debut album after. Personally, this is not my favorite J.Lo movie. That would be, of course, Selena.

4. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)

I actually watched this before I left New York. I had forgotten how boring the scenes with the pigeon lady are. I wonder if Kevin McCallister went on the rest of his life befriending social outcasts. That actually meshes well with the real-life persona of Macaulay Culkin (see: Michael Jackson). But other than the pigeon lady, I liked this movie. Probably even more than the original.

3. Center Stage (2000)

Did I ever tell you about the time I met Peter Gallagher? I was a senior in high school when I found out that he would be at my local mall, giving out flu shots. (It was for some Everyone-Should-Get-a-Flu-Shot campaign.) So a friend and I skipped econ to drive down there and get a flu shot from Peter Gallagher himself. I complimented his eyebrows, and he even let me touch them.

2. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

I wish Woody Allen had done more movies where he set himself up with Dianne West. Then perhaps she’d have more movie roles today, besides playing the hearty grandmother. Anyway, I once went to a cafe where they filmed a scene in this movie, and I thought everyone there would be too blase to be excited by this. But the table next to me had a very long, insufferable conversation about how this movie was “Ibsen’s spawn.”

1. One Fine Day (1996)

This is a boring, formulaic movie, but I watched it because I needed something on in the background while I lint-rolled cat fur off the couch. Do cab drivers actually listen to people when they say, “Don’t take Broadway. It’s a mess.”? I suppose this actually annoys them more than anything. Also, are East Village daycares really a hotbed for LSD? A lot has changed in fifteen years.