# Doper Help for Movie Recommendations Needed

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-help-for-movie-recommendations-needed/401535>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 25, 2007, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-help-for-movie-recommendations-needed/401535 "2007-04-25T00:15:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![freekalette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@freekalette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freekalette)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-help-for-movie-recommendations-needed/401535/21 "2007-04-25T19:45:38Z")

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Waking Ned Devine

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**Author:** ![Vision\_of\_Love](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Vision\_of\_Love](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vision_of_Love)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2007, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-help-for-movie-recommendations-needed/401535/22 "2007-04-26T03:56:02Z")

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Have you seen **Leon: The Professional**?

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**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2007, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-help-for-movie-recommendations-needed/401535/23 "2007-04-26T04:42:16Z")

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Have you seen “Ever After”? Drew Barrymore, retelling of Cinderella. It’s probably one of my absolute favorite romantic comedies. Special guest appearance by Leonardo da Vinci! “Shakespeare in Love” is another of my favorite romantic comedies.

How about “[The Magdalene Sisters](http://imdb.com/title/tt0318411/)”? It is in no wise light, but it’s a really good movie. The opening scene where the priest is singing at the wedding is _amazing_.

You might also like “Billy Elliot.” Boy ballet dancer, father disapproves. Funny, heart-touching. (Really.) “The Secret of Roan Inish” might be up your alley, too. And “Saving Grace,” which is about an English gardener who grows pot in her greenhouse to save herself from financial ruin. If you like that, you might like “Little Voice” and “Brassed Off,” early offerings from Ewan McGregor. There’s also “Down with Love,” which I found very entertaining and very cheesy. You also might like “The Dish,” which is the story about the satellite dish in Australia that received the video feed from the first moonwalk.

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**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2007, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-help-for-movie-recommendations-needed/401535/24 "2007-04-26T12:48:13Z")

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[QUOTE=Vision of Love]  
Have you seen **Leon: The Professional**?  
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Couldn’t find this on [Blockbuster.com](http://Blockbuster.com). Can you maybe give me a brief overview so that, if I stumble across it somewhere, I’ll know if it’s something I may like?

**Miss Purl** , I’ve not seen Ever After. Might add that one. I have seen Down With Love (after reading the book, which was literary Cool Whip, but _good_ Cool Whip, y’know?). I agree with you completely about the movie, too.

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