# Supernatural redemption
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supernatural-redemption/555860
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 2, 2010, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supernatural-redemption/555860 "2010-10-02T18:35:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2010, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supernatural-redemption/555860/1 "2010-10-02T18:35:02Z")
Looking to create a list of movies where a person is redeemed via supernatural intervention. To get a feel for what I mean:
Its a Wonderful Life
Michael
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### Author:  [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2010, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supernatural-redemption/555860/2 "2010-10-03T22:13:57Z")
Any of the zillion versions of A Christmas Carol
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2010, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supernatural-redemption/555860/3 "2010-10-04T12:52:40Z")
> [@TBG](#):
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> Any of the zillion versions of A Christmas Carol
Good one. I thought of it after I saw _Ghosts of Girlfriends Past._ Which isn’t nearly as bad as I feared it would be.
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### Author:  [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2010, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supernatural-redemption/555860/4 "2010-10-04T15:51:24Z")
Do we include Biblical or pseudo-Biblical movies?
In the latter, I’d name _The Robe_ and _Demetrius and the Gladiators_.
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2010, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supernatural-redemption/555860/5 "2010-10-04T16:13:39Z")
Yeah, why not? No need to limit - especially since we aren’t getting flooded with hits anyway.
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### Author:  [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2010, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supernatural-redemption/555860/6 "2010-10-04T17:19:43Z")
I suppose you could make a case for Bruce Willis’ character in The Sixth Sense.
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2010, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supernatural-redemption/555860/7 "2010-10-08T22:30:17Z")
I just thought of one: _The Family Man_ with _Téa Leoni_ and Nick Cage.
Are there really so few? I would have thought it was a common theme.
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### Author:  [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2010, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supernatural-redemption/555860/8 "2010-10-08T22:54:48Z")
Ugh. I hate those.
Let’s see… Bruce Almighty, of course… Dogma, at the end… Groundhog Day… The Kid (that Bruce Willis movie)… Ghost town… Pleasantville… I’ll try to think of some more later-
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### Author:  [@Gil-Martin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gil-Martin)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supernatural-redemption/555860/9 "2010-10-08T23:38:21Z")
_The List_ might interest you. It’s basically a a supernatural suspense movie involving curses and conspiracies told from a decidedly Christian point-of-view, though one needs not adhere to any particular creed to enjoy it. As I recall, one or two characters find some form of redemption by the end, and otherworldly forces have a hand in that . . . I think. I’ve never seen _It’s a Wonderful Life_, so I have no idea what you really desire in terms of recommendations, but \*The List \*is a fun little movie involving salvation and the supernatural. Here’s the link:
> **[The List (2007) ⭐ 3.8 | Thriller](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0762115/)**
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> 1h 45m | PG
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2010, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supernatural-redemption/555860/10 "2010-10-09T02:43:30Z")
**The Hudsucker Proxy
Miracle on 34th Street**