Entertainment

Reese Witherspoon’s leading men

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In "This Means War," Reese Witherspoon plays a product tester who's dating two CIA agents, played by Chris Pine and Tom Hardy. Once they find out that she's seeing them both, they engage in all sorts of elaborate maneuvers to destroy the other one's chances with her. The action comedy isn't the first time Witherspoon's been caught in a love triangle. Take a look back at her on-screen love interests.

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Reese Witherspoon and "Twilight" heartthrob Robert Pattinson made eyes at each other in "Water for Elephants," a romantic melodrama set in the 1930s. Pattinson's character is hired to be a vet by Witherspoon's character's husband, a circus owner. Before long, the three are in a romantic triangle. Unfortunately, according to The Post's Lou Lumenick, Witherspoon and Pattinson's scenes "have no heat whatsoever."

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In the box-office bomb "How Do You Know," Reese Witherspoon played a former pro softball player juggling relationships with Owen Wilson's pro baseball player and Paul Rudd's business executive. Here, Witherspoon looks elegant standing between the two funnymen at the film's Los Angeles premiere.

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Witherspoon's "How Do You Know" costar was actually the second Wilson brother she romanced on the silver screen. In both "Legally Blonde" movies, her Elle Woods pursued a relationship with a fellow young lawyer, albeit one with a slightly darker shade of hair, played by Luke Wilson.

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In "Sweet Home Alabama," Witherspoon played a southern-bred, New York City-dwelling fashion designer caught in a love triangle with the mayor's son, played by Patrick Dempsey, and her southern husband, played by Josh Lucas.

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In 2008's "Four Christmases," she and funnyman Vince Vaughn portrayed an unmarried, child-free couple used to celebrating the holidays on vacation, who end up having to visit all four of their divorced parents on Christmas Day.

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In 2005's "Just Like Heaven," Witherspoon played a comatose doctor who haunts her old apartment, now inhabited by Mark Ruffalo's landscape architect, who soon becomes the object of her affection. Here, Ruffalo gives Witherspoon a little love at the film's Los Angeles premiere.

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WItherspoon won an Oscar for her portrayal of Johnny Cash's wife June Carter in "Walk the Line."

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She also starred with future husband Ryan Phillippe in 1999's "Cruel Intentions," playing a virginal high-school student seduced by Phillippe's Sebastian Valmont in the "Dangerous Liaisons" update.