Valentine's Day: The Date Night Movie That NC Obsesses Over

NORTH CAROLINA — Valentine’s Day is right around the corner. If Cupid’s arrow pierced your heart this season, remember candles and chocolate aren’t enough — you’ll need the perfect movie to set the mood. So why not go with “Dirty Dancing,” the film most-obsessed over in North Carolina.

That’s according to the folks at Streaming Observer, who teamed up with the analysts at Mindnet Analytics to scour Google Trends data and come up with the romantic movie obsessed over most by each state.

Overall, Americans can’t get enough of James Cameron’s blockbuster “Titanic,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. In the film — as if you haven’t seen it 100 times already — a 17-year-old aristocrat falls for a struggling artist aboard the R.M.S. Titanic. And, well, you know how the story ends. Suffice to say it made the line “Iceberg ahead” a household phrase.

According to the report, “Titanic” is the single most-searched-for romantic movie in America. It also happens to be the No. 1 most-obsessed-over movie in West Virginia and Wisconsin. Other favorites include “Her,” “Ghost,” “It Happened One Night,” “Sense and Sensibility,” and “The African Queen.” Each of those films was the top searched for movie in multiple states.

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The study also ranked every state and Washington, D.C. based on how obsessed they are with romantic movies. North Carolina ranked 31st in the country, behind Nevada and ahead of Oklahoma. The authors noted some states seem to enjoy romantic movies much more than others. This includes New York, Massachusetts and California. Meanwhile, Mississippi, South Carolina and West Virginia appear to be less concerned with such things.

Here are the 10 states most obsessed with romantic movies:

1. New York
2. Massachusetts
3. California
4. Connecticut
5. Utah
6. Rhode Island
7. Washington
8. Washington, D.C.
9. Vermont
10. Maine

Patch national staffer Dan Hampton contributed to this report.

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