# What are your "Perfect" movies?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 30, 2005, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-perfect-movies/328546 "2005-10-30T03:10:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![krahkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/db5fbb/32.png) [@krahkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/krahkin)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-perfect-movies/328546/61 "2005-11-22T15:51:48Z")

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These movies are those which I can watch anytime, and if seen on the tv guide, will be played on the television. These are not to be considered the ‘best produced, directed or filmed’ movies of all time.

A Christmas Story  
As Good As it Gets  
Groundhog Day  
Shallow Hal

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-perfect-movies/328546/62 "2005-11-22T16:04:03Z")

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Dang, how could I forget:

\*\*Casablanca

What’s Up, Doc?

The Hidden

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-perfect-movies/328546/63 "2005-11-22T16:31:28Z")

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Amelie - this movie is just a feast for the senses.  
O Brother, where art thou? - pure, undiluted entertainment.

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**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-perfect-movies/328546/64 "2005-11-22T16:47:50Z")

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Good grief no-one’s mentioned **Nashville**? I recon you have to see it three or four times before it fits together. More characters than you can shake a stick at, a dozen or more major characters and loads more minor ones who keep popping up (like Frog and the bumper sticker girl). It has a bunch of plots that interweave all the way through and only pauses for some songs though even then there’s usually something else going on at the same time.

It has none of the proper movie requisites: spacecraft, aliens, insane robots, super powers, guns

well, just the one gun

and has lots of _country music_ :eek: and still I’ve watched it way too many times. It must have something special going for it.  
Also: **Dumbo**. I don’t have to explain this do I?

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