I forgot about that. In fact, I don’t remember it at all. It’s been years since I watched that movie. Mostly I remember “Those aren’t pillows!”
Okay then. How about some animation? The first Shrek or Toy Story? Those hold up well.
I second* Fly Away Home*. How about Amelie or Roman Holiday (black and white)? How about any John Hughes film? Or Mean Girls?* Little Miss Sunshine *has some profanity and a small glimpse of some raunch porn mags, but it’s a fantastic film about people.
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day? (newly out and great, if mild, fun)
I cannot stand westerns in almost any form, so I’m not much help there. I think the Viggo film you want is* Hidalgo*.
Blow her mind with Spirited Away–a surreal Japanese animated film that is very, very good.
Thanks-
I know for a fact she’s seen and loved Secondhand Lions and a couple of others mentioned. I’m going to go with Stardust, Best in Show, and Parenthood (all of which I enjoyed when I first saw them, so she may as well;)).
What about Holes? Technically a kids’ movie, but I really truly loved it.
I liked the movie Paulie a lot better than I thought I would.
The Sting
Old Yeller—but it ain’t a happy ending.
Really anything old school Disney…The Jungle Book, 101 Dalmations, Cinderella, etc.
Almost anything John Wayne. Especially True Grit.
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid? It has some language…
I hate “family movies” in general, but both Holes and Whale Rider were very good (both mentioned above).
As far as Westerns, I don’t recall any real swearing in Support Your Local Sheriff, although there are a couple of pretty harmless double entendres revolving around the local brothel, Madame Orr’s House. I think two people get shot toward the beginning of the movie, but the shootings are mild by movie standards – no visible blood, no closeups of dying agony, etc. It is also a damned funny movie.
OK, checking my shelves for family-friendly films…
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Beetlejuice
Edward Scissorhands
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Harry Potter series
The Indiana Jones series
The Pirates Of The Caribbean series
1941
The Lost Skeleton Of Cadavra
Men In Black
Arsenic And Old Lace
Bringing Up Baby
Casablanca
To Have And Have Not
The Trouble With Harry
Cutthroat Island
Young Frankenstein
Silverado
Blazing Saddles
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure
Plus a number of classic Hollywood films and bad horror films. Other than that, the majority of my collection tends to have violence, gore, etc.
Bayard: Oh, yeah. Whale Rider. I forgot that one.
Blazing Saddles is “family friendly” now? It was rated R on release…
It has a few vulgar words in it, and quite a bit of sexual innuendo; but it seems pretty tame to me.
Yeah, that 30 seconds of scenes of people having orgasms went by so quickly, the kiddies would hardly notice. 
Was it 30 seconds? Maybe it was 15.
There is sex (wall shaking bathroom sex)and a few scenes in an Adult Bookstore / Peep shows in Amelie, if that’s a concern.
The problem with Blazing Saddles is that a lot of the culture reference is, happily, lost on kids.
Fever Pitch is a great romantic comedy. Implied sex, but nothing graphic at all.
The Bad News Bears? (Original version with Tatum Oneal) It has some language, but not sex or graphic violence…
Farting is the universal language.
Or how about “Howl’s Moving Castle”, another remarkable Studio Ghibli movie.
See if you can find Leaving Normal. Christine Lahti and Meg Tilly running away from themselves, and finding themselves instead.
The Incredibles