spoke-, isn’t that the point of the thread? She’s nothing special but the A-listers want her.
That’s what I’m saying.
Oh. Sorry. Well, bully for our agreement, then.
I submit Raiders of the Lost Ark, Karen Allen is very tomboyish and non-glamorous, but gets Indiana Jones just by being herself. Even when they put her in white satin, she looks like the kid sister playing dress-up. Really added to both characters and losing that kind of dynamic was one of many things that disappointed me about the next two Indiana Jones movies (I didn’t see the latest).
Karen Allen is tomboyish? I think she looks hot no matter what she’s wearing!
Apparently Karen Allen became very fond of John Belushi when they met while filming “Animal House”
She said he was a decent, sweet guy who looked after her like she was his little sister, and she tried to reach out to him later when he was fighting his demons.
(and I always tought she was really attractive, in a tomboy sort of way)
Teen Wolf. Hello?
What isn’t romantic about it? It follows every trope, admittedly in a way you don’t usually see, but its a totally formulaic love story/ romance plot. A damaged lonely girl finds the man of her dreams and wins him over with the power of her love and dedication, they live happily ever after, The End. What isn’t romantic about that? It it because she has great sex? 
I think Uma Thurman looks like a face painted on an egg.
Just remembered another one myself!
In Legally Blonde, Paulette is extremely awkward and shy, but she ends up with her crush, the hot UPS guy. According to the epilogue text, they have a child together.
She’s only a supporting character, but Hugh Grant’s sister in *Four Weddings & a Funeral *ends up with a tall, dark, handsome, charming Texan.
But I’ll raise a champagne flute to almost any trans-Atlantic pairing. 
Pretty much any film with Michelle Meyrink.
I think Maggie G is completely gorgeous and anyone who says otherwise needs to step outside.
For a believe and not-completely-gorgeous girl who gets the guy, you need to watch European - especially, British - movies.
Oh! Letter to Brezhnev!
One of my ex-coworkers would probably say Bridget Jones Diary. She told me she loved it ‘cuz she’s as dorky as me.’ Now I’m not a huge Zellweger fan, and think my coworker is pretty hot, so you go figure.
Scarlett (The sadly late Charlotte Coleman) was his flatmate, not his sister.
I’m still waiting for the movie of Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve (there are the usual Internet rumors linking it to Peter Jackson). The female protagonist has a huge disfiguring scar across her face due to being attacked with a sword as a child, but she ends up with the handsome young (and hopelessly idealistic) male lead. It’s also noteworthy because Hester is a pretty nasty piece of work for a romantic interest, and kills a lot of people in the books (albeit usually in self-defense).
Sadly, I’m betting that Hollywood gives us someone with a cute scar and a bit of angst instead of the ruthless killer from the original books.
Well, I consider myself corrected…
Earlier in this thread I asserted that “dorky woman gets gorgeous guy” would not be common in films, because it’s less common in real life than the opposite. But now there has been a pretty good number of examples.
And, incidentally, I wasn’t trying to imply that a woman could not make herself more attractive with personality or whatever. I just felt that it’s the kind of long-term relationship that many women don’t want – they don’t want to have to win a guy over, and then have a relationship where they feel insecure.
Isn’t Bridget Jones more ‘dorky-but-cute girl gets dorky-but-cute guy’ though, to be fair?
The book didn’t really depict Bridget as all that hot, but it certainly didn’t make her out to be unattractive either. Whether you personally think Zellweger is hot is kind of neither here nor there in that context.