From my video cabinet:
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Chocolat
Harvey
Moonstruck, although I’m not 100% certain on this one
Cujo. Wait…damnit.
Carrie…no…
Firestarter…no…
The Shinning…no…
I guess the kid will never expirence the horror of Stephen King.
Other movies are:
Revenge of the Nerds. Does have like a 5 minute scene full of boobies, but he is a boy, right?
Down with Love is good. No bad things in that. Unless he can’t see kissing. Or femals dominating males in a 60s work place.
I see somebody beat me to Almost Famous and About a Boy. Both flicks are so good it’s almost criminal.
Excellent choice. I think it would appeal to all age groups even.
My first instinct was to say Nobody’s Fool but there is a bit where the old, old lady dies of natural causes and Paul Newman gets to leave jail to attend the funeral. If Sheldon is already hip to the fact that people die EVENTUALLY it might not traumatise him too much. I will note that there are a couple exposed breasts (I can’t explain why, but they are in an extremely non-offensive context) so if he’s very young you might want to give it a pass. I recommend it to all the adults though!
Does it say something that most of my favorite movies–including the comedies–include people dying?
How about Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory?
Or Mary Poppins?
Hey, I don’t thing Spirited Away or Kiki’s Delivery Service have anyone dying.
:smack:
Wrong Eddie Murphy movie, goober.
Try Trading Places.
About A Boy doesn’t have anyone dying, but a character does attempt to shuffle off this old mortal coil.
Actually, they weren’t sure whose vomit it was. After all, you can’t dust for vomit.
I’m pretty sure that nobody dies in Waiting for Gufman. Also, I’m not sure but I think that Blazing Saddles is corpse free.
Nope. Hedly Lamar is killed. “Wow, you shot the bad guy.”
How about On the Beach? No wait, bad idea.
Since someone has already given my fave for 2003 (“Lost in Translation”), let me think about my #2: “American Splendor”. Can’t recall anyone dying in that. But maybe I’ll just watch it again to make sure…
(Hey, he survived the cancer, that’s not dying, at least for now. Okay?)
No one officially died in “Being John Malkovich,” right? Nor do I recall a death in “Eternal Sunshine…”.
Hm. Mrs. Doubtfire is good, but there’s the subject of divorce.
Hook…rats. Well, Cpt. Hook gets swallowed by the crocodile at the end, but I doubt he’d be too upset about that.
Sandlot. Perfect. Nobody dies, it’s about kids, and it’s a fun movie for everyone.
Matilda’s good too.
My Favorite Year has some crude sexual humour and comical violence, but not death.
In the last scene, the very elderly banker is said to have died laughing.
But on that note, ha ha, I don’t believe anyone dies in Sound of Music.
Peter Pan (Disney version)
Robin Hood (Disney Version)
I’m pretty sure no one dies in either.
Attack of the Flesh Devouring Space Worms From Outer Space
Chris J. Nanney (Nobody) dies during it.
If you want to simultaneously teach him about irony you could show Life is Beautiful
Uhh…unless I’m being whooshed…no. There’s a huge pile of human bones, a huge pile of clothes in a gas chamber, mention of buttons and soap made from the prisoners, and Roberto Benigne’s character dies (albeit off screen…).
Disney’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks?
No deaths, even though it takes place in WWII. (So…apparently, it’s not “OK” to kill even Nazi commandos who are invading your homeland? But it IS OK to use witchcraft.)
When Harry Met Sally didn’t have any death in it, I don’t think. They DISCUSS death at one point, but there’s no actual body count.
Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas doesn’t really have killing in it. (All the undead characters are “alive,” for all intents and purposes.)
How about Mr. Hobbs takes a Vacation, or Dear Bridgette? No death in those, as I remember.
Maybe an old Doris Day movie, or two?
American Graffiti, Annie Hall, The Apartment, The Best Years of Our Lives, Chariots of Fire, Dodsworth, Driving Miss Daisy, The Enchanted Cottage, Gentlemen’s Agreement, Gigi, Going My Way, Kramer vs. Kramer, The Last Picture Show, The Lost Weekend, Marty, Meet Me in St. Louis, National Velvet, Raging Bull, Rocky, Sunrise, Shadows, The Shop Around the Corner, The Sound of Music, A Streetcar Named Desire, Sweet Smell of Success.
The Breakfast Club!
The Game
Bed of Roses
Sleepless in Seattle
When Harry met Sally
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation?
I know I’m forgetting somethin’