# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/61 "2002-06-20T20:50:07Z")
**Moonstruck** **Always** **The Piano** **Home for the Holidays** Yep, I’m a Holly Hunter fan. ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/62 "2002-06-20T20:53:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by auntie em \* > **Reality Bites** –so does the movie, but come on; can’t you feel the love? Oooh, I love **Reality Bites** and **Singles** has the same vibe for me… How could I forget **High Fidelity**? ---
**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 20, 2002, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/63 "2002-06-20T22:16:05Z")
OH, Swingers is uplifting to me. Second High Fidelity. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2002, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/64 "2002-06-21T00:07:22Z")
**Gorgon Heap** , my pat answer when something’s wrong with me? “Space herpies.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Riqay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Riqay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riqay)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2002, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/65 "2002-06-21T01:23:24Z")
When I’m really down, it’s usually 'cause of a broken heart. At that point, I try to make a point of avoiding any romantic movies. The one big exception is **Shakespeare In Love**. Two reasons: (1) they don’t end up together in the end, and I can relate to that; (2) it’s somehow comforting to know that broken hearts weren’t any easier or any different 400 years ago. As for movies to cure a general malais (i.e., not a heartache situation): **The Princess Bride** – “Ohhh, look who knows so much…” **Singin’ In The Rain** – “Moses supposes his toeses are roses…” **The Sound of Music** – “Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens…” **Die Hard** – “Yippee-ki-ay mother …” **Beautiful Girls** – “Nope, just Marty. A girl named Marty. Named after a grandfather I never knew. It is, I think, the bane of my existence.” And I don’t think I’ve seen this one listed… **The Shawshank Redemption** – “It was as if some beautiful bird had flapped into our drab little cage and made these walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free.” Yup. ---
**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2002, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/66 "2002-06-21T02:58:13Z")
**Shawshank Redemption Stand By Me The Breakfast Club Good Will Hunting Almost Famous My Cousin Vinny** I have many more than these (a lot of them have been mentioned already), but these are the top ones. ---
**Author:** ![tavalla](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tavalla/32/89_2.png) [@tavalla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tavalla)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2002, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/67 "2002-06-21T10:12:56Z")
In no particular order, and for different reasons: **Magnolia Mr Holland’s Opus The Abyss LA Story** - Steve Martin usually irritates me, but not in this one **The Dish Searching For Bobby Fischer Forget Paris** ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2002, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/68 "2002-06-21T12:46:25Z")
**Tuckerfan** [chompchompchompchomp] 😃 Man, I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone else who’s ever seen that film. You just made big points on the Heap-O-Meter, **Tuck**! ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2002, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/69 "2002-06-21T19:29:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gorgon Heap \* > \*\ ***Tuckerfan** [chompchompchompchomp] 😃 Man, I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone else who’s ever seen that film. > > You just made big points on the Heap-O-Meter, **Tuck**! \*\* Hey, I’ve seen it six or eight times too 😛 ---
**Author:** ![jacksen9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@jacksen9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jacksen9)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2002, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/70 "2002-06-21T21:00:55Z")
\*\*Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid \*\* , already mentioned but one of my all time favorites. The Sting The Horse Whisperer Smokey and the Bandit - I can recite most of this movie…“Daddy, daddy, my hat fell off. Well, I hope your Goddamn head was in it” When I get home, Im gonna slap yo momma in the mouth, cuz I know the likes of you didn’t come from these loins". 😃 Not really a movie but I love Richard Pryor Live On Sunset Strip and Divine Madness. No Time For Sergeants, not only funny to me but I can remember watching this with my dad who laughed so hard he cried. Chances Are - but so heart breaking b/c I am sad about Robert Downey. and for old times sake - Love Story ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2002, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/71 "2002-06-22T02:25:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gorgon Heap \* > \*\ ***Tuckerfan** [chompchompchompchomp] 😃 Man, I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone else who’s ever seen that film. > > You just made big points on the Heap-O-Meter, **Tuck**! \*\* [showing my age]Are you kidding? I saw it in the theater on opening weekend![/showing my age] ---
**Author:** ![snermy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@snermy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snermy)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2002, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/72 "2002-06-22T03:25:14Z")
oooh! good choice **Sparrow** definitely \*\*Groundhog Day. \*\* Repetition is so soothing… ---
**Author:** ![TheTailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f0a364/32.png) [@TheTailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheTailor)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2002, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/73 "2002-06-22T04:30:07Z")
Alright, here goes: “Sister Act” and “South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut” because how can you feel down when you’re humming those songs for the next few days? Old “Friends” repeats, “Fools Rush In”, “Three To Tango”, & “The Whole Nine Yards” because I love Matthew Perry, and I will always feel I just might make it through life remaining the snippy, sarcastic, gay-seeming but VERY heterosexual jokester… (But not “Almost Heroes”… dear God, anything but that) “The Mighty Ducks” because it’s just so damn addictive… no joke, I had to buy a new tape, b/c my first one wore out… “The Princess Bride” so I can walk through the mall repeating “I am Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” and “Inconcievable!” and get really weird looks “Spaceballs” because it reminds me I can be my own best friend. “TMNT II: The Secret of the Ooze”, “Back to the Future II”, and “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” becuase they’re all highly entertaining sequels that get me thinking the best could be yet to come… AND FINALLY… Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. Why you ask? Because no matter how bad my life is, it can’t get as bad as sitting through the whole thing. (Except maybe to hear Spock say “Not in front of the Klingons”) ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2002, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/74 "2002-06-22T04:31:16Z")
The Princess Bride 10 Things I Hate About You The Breakfast Club Chasing Amy Four Weddings and a Funeral Any of the MST3K shorts videos The Full Monty I have a hunch Ghost World is going to work its way into the list. ---
**Author:** ![Skerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2002, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/75 "2002-06-22T18:08:49Z")
**If Lucy Fell** is one of my favorite movies of all time! And I don’t know anyone else who has ever even seen it! **The Goonies** **Singles** Any **Kevin Smith** movie **Big Trouble in Little China** - definitely one of the best Saturday-afternoon-viewing movies ever. Any **John Hughes** movie Can you tell I grew up with cable in the '80’s? ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2002, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/76 "2002-06-22T18:22:21Z")
\*\*Legend Poltergeist Office Space Streetcar named Desire Gone with the Wind Spinal Tap Young Frankenstein Clueless Nashville Tumbleweeds Seven Year Itch True Stories\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Pucette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@Pucette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pucette)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2002, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/77 "2002-06-22T19:09:36Z")
Grosse Pointe Blank Run Lola Run Dirty Dancing ---
**Author:** ![ukbanshee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/8e8cbc/32.png) [@ukbanshee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ukbanshee)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2002, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/78 "2002-06-22T19:40:40Z")
Drastic, I completely agree with The Big Lebowski - “8 year olds man” and also on my list: Shawshank Redemption City of Angels What Dreams May Come Se7en Good Will Hunting ---
**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 22, 2002, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/79 "2002-06-22T20:09:04Z")
Se7en is a comfort movie??? I was depressed for days over that movies ending ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-comfort-movies/114636/80 "2002-06-23T05:15:05Z")
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