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12	Examples of ChildhoodFriendRomance in live-action films.
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14	* ''Film/AliensVsPredatorRequiem'': Jesse and Ricky talk about how they hung out together once and did stuff like sneak into the school pool "before you had a boyfriend." In the present, Ricky has a crush on Jesse which he clearly hasn't voiced before. Jesse easily notices this and proposes a RelationshipUpgrade after she dumps her {{Jerkass}} boyfriend.
15	* Stevie and her ex-fiancé from ''Film/BackstreetDreams'' were childhood friends before they got engaged. They still split up because he didn't understand why she was willing to work for little or no pay.
16	%%* In ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''-inspired movie ''Film/BornOfHope'', there is Elgarain for Arathorn and a rare male example in [[spoiler:Dírhaborn]] for Elgarain.
17	* William Wallace and Murron in ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'' meet as children and become lovers later in life.
18	* ''Film/TheCuriousCaseOfBenjaminButton'' is a curious case indeed. Benjamin Button was born as an old man and so his "childhood" with Daisy Fuller looked like a girl hanging out with her grandfather. Nevertheless, they're a couple when they're the same age.
19	* ''Film/TheDarkKnight'': Rachel breaks her promise to wait for Bruce in ''Film/BatmanBegins'' and ends up with Harvey "The Two-Face" Dent instead.
20	%%* Riley Jones and Clapton Davis in ''Film/{{Detention}}''.
21	* [[spoiler:Wesley and Bianca]] in ''Film/TheDuff''. [[spoiler:They were next door neighbours and grew up together, until Wes became a DumbJock which annoyed the hell out of Bianca. After Bianca got transformed from a shy DUFF to a bright beautiful girl, with Wes’ help nonetheless, the two end up together]].
22	* ''Film/ErinsGuideToKissingGirls'': [[spoiler:Erin and Liz first met in kindergarten, and were best friends ever since. After Erin gets rejected by Sydni Hunter, Liz stands up for her, and they share a dance in the school hallway, signifying that they have become an OfficialCouple.]]
23	* In ''Esteros'', Matias and Jeromino used to be childhood friends who also experimented sexually with each other. When they meet again many years later as adults, they're forced to confront that their feelings for each other never truly went away.
24	* In musical comedy, ''The Fighting Temptations'', the lead couple -- Darrin & Lilly (portrayed by Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Beyoncé Knowles as adults) briefly spent their childhood together before Darrin moved away with his mother. Darrin would often ask Lilly to be his girlfriend but she'd decline as she had her heart set on singer Michael Jackson. Ironically, they reunited in their adult years but Lilly had no romantic interest in Darrin whatsoever until late in the film. He proposes to her in one of the last scenes of the movie, and it is later revealed that they had a baby of their own.
25	* ''Film/{{Flipped}}'': Juli meets Bryce since he moves in across the street from her and she instantly falls for him. But, Bryce is utterly annoyed by her [[StalkingIsLove stalking habit]] that he does everything to keep Juli at bay. They almost end up as UnluckyChildhoodFriend until Bryce decides to change his ways toward Juli.
26	* ''Film/ForrestGump'': Forrest and Jenny walked to school together every morning. It's used as a time skip it's such a long duration. It's a bumby ride but they are ultimately HappilyMarried. [[spoiler: Then, she dies.]]
27	* ''Film/GetMarriedIfYouCan'': Dani has been in love with Gustavo since she was seven years old. He [[spoiler:initially is infatuated with her sister Ana Paola but later realizes it’s always been Dani]].
28	* Jonas and Fiona are this in ''Film/TheGiver'' due to the latter having been PromotedToLoveInterest from her role in [[Literature/TheGiver the book]] -- there's even a montage shown in pictures of how close they'd been since children before they start making out.
29	* Robert Ford and Cynthy Waters are this in ''Film/IShotJesseJames''. Robert claims he's known Cynthy "ever since I could crawl", and it's his love for her that largely leads to the film's events.
30	* When Mary of ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'' was a child she said that she was going to marry George. He didn't fulfill his dreams but she did before too long.
31	* In ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'', Alan Parish and Sarah Whittle were friends as children before the titular game sucked Alan in for twenty-six years, after which they were reunited and grew close over the course of the film before the ResetButton gave them back their childhood. In the epilogue, their new future has them married and expecting a child.
32	%%* ''Film/KuchKuchHotaHai''. It doesn't specify how long the Rahul and Anjali have been friends, but one can assume they were friends since childhood.
33	* In French movie ''Film/LoveMeIfYouDare'', the lead couple grew up as kids together, sleeping together in the same bed well into their teenage years and they continue acting out their BelligerentSexualTension into adulthood.
34	%%* Max and Megan in ''Film/MaxKeeblesBigMove''
35	* ''[[{{Film/MelodySWALK}} Melody]] [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067418/ (1971)]]'' took this to extremes with the ten-year-old lovebirds deciding to skip the part about growing up first and get married at once. [[spoiler: They pull this off, albeit unofficially, and it turns into an elopement when the adults raid their wedding party.]]
36	* Chiron from ''Film/{{Moonlight\|2016}}'' had an OnlyFriend in Kevin. As they grow older, their friendship turns romantic.
37	* ''Film/{{Neverwas}}'' includes a burgeoning relationship between Zach and Maggie, who had apparently romped around the neighborhood in grand adventures as children, although Zach had largely forgotten her until they met as adults.
38	%%* Rebecca and Philip in ''Night of the Living Dorks''.
39	* In ''Film/{{Once Upon a Time in America}}'', Noodles and Deborah are childhood friends who flirt. They don't see each other for the rest of their childhood/adolescence after Noodles gets sent to prison, but still have a romantic connection when they see each other again as adults.
40	* ''Film/PastLives'': Nora and Hae Sung were friends in childhood who reconnect in adulthood. The possibility of their love is discussed by Arthur in the trailer:
41	-->'''Arthur:''' What a good story this is. Childhood sweethearts who reconnect 20 years later and realize they were meant for each other.
42	* The first scene in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'' is Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann as children meeting, when Will is saved from a shipwreck and taken in by the crew of the ship Elizabeth's in. Skip forward to the main story and Elizabeth considers them close enough for FirstNameBasis. Will, for his part, has this AlwaysSaveTheGirl compulsion that Jack never lets him live down. [[spoiler: They marry in the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd third film]].]]
43	* In ''Film/TheSilenceOfAdultery'', Rachel and Paul have been friends since kindergarten and fell in love once their hormones kicked in. That didn't stop Paul from becoming MarriedToTheJob and the love from going out of their marriage.
44	* Abby and Jay fall into this near the end of ''Film/{{Sixteen Wishes}}''.
45	* ''Film/SkyHigh2005'': Layla and Will are neighbors and because of that and other things Warren believes this of them. It becomes a fact at the end of the film.
46	* Jamal Malik and Latika in ''Film/SlumdogMillionaire'' met each other as young children and developed a deep; deep bond—to the point that once separated from each other, Jamal later found and rescued Latika when they were teenagers and then reunited with her once again as adults where he's fighting even harder than ever to free and rescue her.
47	%%* Hal and Lane in ''Film/SnowDay''.
48	* In ''Film/SomeKindOfWonderful'' Keith and Watts have known each other since ''at least'' the third grade. Initially Keith doesn't notice her--due not only to knowing her for a very long time, but also because she's ''this'' close to qualifying for WholesomeCrossdresser -- but following a whole lot of CharacterDevelopment for everybody and a PracticeKiss, he ends up choosing her. Curiously enough, the popular girl he was pining after isn't made out to be a bad person, just one who's better off on her own.
49	* The ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'': Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson knew each other since they were kids, and they start going out when they are young adults, which is helped along when [[spoiler:MJ learns that Peter is Spider-Man in the second film]].
50	* ''Franchise/StarWars'': Anakin Skywalker marries Padmé Amidala, the two having met when he was a child and she was a teen.
51	* ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'': A deleted scene reveals that Lois Lane was the admiring young girl on the train watching when young Clark Kent was running alongside it.
52	* H.W. Plainview and Mary Sunday end up together as adults in ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood'' after having become good friends when they were both young children early in the film.
53	* ''Film/ThirteenGoingOnThirty'': Jenna and Matt were best friends in their childhood as seen in the beginning of the film. Their friendship broke off when Jenna blamed Matt for pulling a practical joke on her during a game of 17 Minutes in Heaven. Years later, they reconcile and develop romantic feelings for each other. [[spoiler: They got married by the film's end.]]
54	* ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'': It was evident in ''Film/{{Thor}}'' that the titular character and Sif, along with the Warriors Three, [[TrueCompanions are very close friends]], merely hinting that Sif might have romantic interest in Thor. The second movie then heavily implies Sif will turn out to be an Unlucky Childhood Friend. She attempts to reach out to Thor while he is still brooding about not being able to see Jane, but he just thanks her for her friendship and skill in battle and walks away. His father Odin tries to set him up with her later in the movie, but he replies she is just a friend. Throughout the rest of the movie, he repeatedly ignores her in Jane's favor, and during the few times they do interact, it appears to be purely platonic on his side.
55	-->'''Jaimie Alexander:''' She (Sif) does sacrifice quite a bit for Thor, because she is so very much in love with him, so you do get to see that... She cares about him. They grew up together, you know?
56	%%* ''Film/TheTimeTravelersWife2009'''s Clare Abshire and Henry De Tamble.
57	%%* Boof and Scott in ''Film/TeenWolf''.
58	%%* Leah and Brad in ''Film/TrojanWar1997'' (the condom, not the city)
59	* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'':
60	** Raven for Xavier in ''Film/XMenFirstClass''. Xavier does a lot of flirting with other women, and Raven is clearly jealous. It's hard to tell whether she actually had strong romantic feelings for him, or if she just wants to establish that she's worthy of romantic interest, but either way he says that he [[LikeBrotherAndSister can't see her as anything but a sister]] and [[{{Protectorate}} someone to protect]].
61	** In ''Film/TheWolverine'', Mariko jokes that she was going to marry Harada, but couldn't because they weren't fifteen. By the time they're adults, however, Mariko has to enter ArrangedMarriage with Noburo Mori.
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Context ChildhoodFriendRomance / LiveActionFilms