# Your Comfort Movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 18, 2002, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636 "2002-06-18T02:38:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/1 "2002-06-18T02:38:26Z")
While comfort food gets a big notice, I think there’s such a thing as a comfort movie too. You know, the movies you stick in the vcr/dvd when you’re sick or blue or otherwise upset…the type of movies that lifts you out of your misery for a little while. Mine for the longest time have been: \*\* Empire Records\*\*- which until recently would be the movie I’ve seen the most times. There’s something very appealing about the chacters and the dialogue. \*\* If Lucy Fell\*\*- I’m not much of a romantic, but this movie makes even me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. \*\* The Professional\*\*- I don’t know why, so don’t ask. And more recently: \*\* The X-Files: Fight The Future\*\*- I’ve watched this six or seven times already, and it’s been less than a year since I first saw it… \*\* I’ve Been Waiting For You\*\*- which is the best B horror movie I’ve ever watched. \*\* Drive Me Crazy\*\*- Yet another of the romantic comedies I pretend to have no interest in… So, what are yours? ---
**Author:** ![Roadwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/2 "2002-06-18T03:33:21Z")
Any of the Mad Max films. I don’t know, perhaps I think of myself a the road warrior tough type. ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/3 "2002-06-18T03:41:45Z")
**The Princess Bride** **Real Genius** **Ferris Bueller’s Day Off** **Raising Arizona** **The Neverending Story** – (I know, the dark themes shouldn’t really help with the blues, so sue me.) After typing out this list, I noticed that they’re all from a fairly narrow time period: 1984-1987. Odd. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/4 "2002-06-18T03:49:46Z")
_Casablanca_ _The Court Jester_ _Animal House_ _The Princess Bride_ _Ghostbusters_ ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/5 "2002-06-18T04:08:27Z")
**Sense and Sensability** - Yes, I’m a guy - and a straight one. (I catch $h1t for this one) **Loser** - don’t know really? **Romy and Michele’s high school reunion** - funny stuff **Mallrats** - Jason Lee, best performance in a comedy, by anyone ever?? Okay, a little exageration but not much. **You’ve got Mail, Joe Versus the Volcano, and Sleepless in Seattle** - Tom and Meg ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/6 "2002-06-18T04:29:57Z")
**The Iron Giant** – wonderful and cathartic. “Suuuuperman.” **The Big Lebowski** – can bring me out of any foul mood. (“That some sort of Eastern thing?” “Far from it.”) ---
**Author:** ![rackensack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/7 "2002-06-18T04:36:52Z")
_Local Hero_, of course, both because it’s that sort of movie and because I first saw it during one of my favorite periods of my life, when things were damn close to perfect, and watching lets me recapture a little of that. _The Princess Bride_. A popular choice already, I see. _Sullivan’s Travels_. Gotta have at least one Sturges film on a list like this. Besides, I have this thing for Veronica Lake (despite my usual preference for dark hair/eyes). _Bull Durham_. I love minor league baseball. It’s obvious that Ron Shelton played the game. Annie Savoy is beginning to wear on my nerves the more times I see it, but I can deal with it. Shelton’s commentary on the DVD is the best director’s commentary I’ve encountered so far . _The Cocoanuts_. Not most people’s favorite among the Marx Brothers’ films, but I sort of like that there’s even less story here than in the later films – less plot = more lunacy. It’s also probably the closest you can get to seeing what the Marx Brothers’ vaudeville act was like. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/8 "2002-06-18T05:39:21Z")
Wow… I would go with **The TRUMAN SHOW** - Not only was it one of my favorite movies, I first saw it during the best period of my life (The day it came out in theaters). And I would have to go with **The X-Files** movie as well… - That came out in the summer of 1998 too. Great times. I wish the show kept up with the quality. I was a HUGE fan. ---
**Author:** ![Corixidae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@Corixidae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corixidae)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/9 "2002-06-18T08:02:59Z")
**10 Things I Hate About You** – third movie I ever owned on DVD. **The Princess Bride** – one of my all-time favorites. **The American President** – big fan of Aaron Sorkin’s writing style. **Silverado** – the best Western ever. **Four Weddings and a Funeral** – charming flick, but Andie MacDowell annoys me. **A Fish Called Wanda** – fantastic ensemble cast. ---
**Author:** ![Dieter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@Dieter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dieter)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/10 "2002-06-18T10:14:10Z")
**Toys** - I just put that movie on and think how I want to live there. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![QueenAl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/d26b3c/32.png) [@QueenAl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QueenAl)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/11 "2002-06-18T12:42:01Z")
Another vote for _The Truman Show_. I also saw it at a memorable time, (took my four-week old daughter in with me and breast-fed her through the entire film), but even without that I’d love it. It doesn’t explore all the issues it could, but in a way that makes it a better, more focussed movie. Jim Carey is perfect, and usually I can’t stand him. My best comfort movie is _Terminator 1_. I know, doesn’t sound as if it would be comforting, does it? But to me they’re not comfort movies as such, but reset movies - to remind you of who you really are when your life is going through a change. ---
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/12 "2002-06-18T12:42:12Z")
**Local Hero** - love the setting, characters, quirky story,soundtrack “We have an injured rabbit.” **Little Women** (Winona Ryder version) a favorite story from childhood, brought to life, with hunky Christian Bale playing hunky Laurie. I never had sisters, the March sisters are my pretend ones. “Oh Jo, your one beauty.” **Dazed and Confused** the story and soundtrack of my teen years; takes me right back. “Just keep on livin.’” There are others, but those three are faves. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/13 "2002-06-18T12:42:47Z")
**Singin’ in the Rain** – There is no film more joyous or more fun. **The Wrong Trousers** – except maybe this. ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/14 "2002-06-18T12:47:53Z")
**A Christmas Story** - When things were innocent. **Priscilla, Queen of the Desert** - When things were sequined. **Tron** - All of a sudden it’s 1982 again. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/15 "2002-06-18T12:58:49Z")
When I worked third shift, I had a lot of conflicts with my boss and co-workers because I wanted to do the (somewhat technical) work neatly and correctly, and they just didn’t care. Many mornings I’d come home, pop **Tootsie** in the VCR, and fast-forward to the scene in his agent’s office: “They can’t all be idiots, Michael, you argue with EVERYBODY!” That movie is about so much more than a man in a dress. I totally idenify with Michael Dorsey the perfectionist. Also **The Court Jester, Raising Arizona,** and perhaps my favorite move ever, **The Apartment**. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/16 "2002-06-18T13:20:59Z")
**Scarlett** , I will forevermore envision you in that red sequined dress. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/17 "2002-06-18T13:54:31Z")
**Election** - the only movie where the American Pie guy isn’t a distraction. **Primary Colors** - I like political movies. **Get Shorty** - Never fails to make me laugh. **Shawshank Redemption** - Truly one of the modern clasics. **Clerks** - In my top 37! ---
**Author:** ![MachV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@MachV](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MachV)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/18 "2002-06-18T14:24:14Z")
The **Airplane** movies, **Clue** , any Mel Brooks - especially **Blazing Saddles**. And **Office Space**. Movies that can make me laugh out loud every time. My **Simpsons - Season One** is another dvd I throw in for therapy purposes, too. ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/19 "2002-06-18T14:35:21Z")
**Dazed and Confused** –the soundtrack, Matthew McConaghey (sp?) and the little long-haired stoner guy make the whole movie. Plus I secretly love Wiley Wiggins. 😉 **Tootsie** –one of the best movies ever, IMO. **Baby Boom** –I harbor the fantasy of moving to a rambling old house in the country, so this movie is very satisfying to me. **Reality Bites** –so does the movie, but come on; can’t you feel the love? More as I think of them… ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/20 "2002-06-18T14:36:29Z")
**The Castle of Cagliostro** or **El Porco Rosso.** - Bright cheery, animated happiness… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636.md?page=2)