Your Comfort Movies

Moonstruck

Always

The Piano

Home for the Holidays

Yep, I’m a Holly Hunter fan.

Oooh, I love Reality Bites and Singles has the same vibe for me…

How could I forget High Fidelity?

OH,
Swingers is uplifting to me.

Second High Fidelity.

Gorgon Heap, my pat answer when something’s wrong with me? “Space herpies.” :smiley:

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.

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.

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

Tuckerfan [chompchompchompchomp] :smiley: 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 :stuck_out_tongue:

**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".

:smiley:
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

[showing my age]Are you kidding? I saw it in the theater on opening weekend![/showing my age]

oooh!
good choice Sparrow
definitely **Groundhog Day. ** Repetition is so soothing…

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”)

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.

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?

**Legend

Poltergeist

Office Space

Streetcar named Desire

Gone with the Wind

Spinal Tap

Young Frankenstein

Clueless

Nashville

Tumbleweeds

Seven Year Itch

True Stories**

Grosse Pointe Blank
Run Lola Run
Dirty Dancing

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

Se7en is a comfort movie???

I was depressed for days over that movies ending

My Favorite Year
Broadway Danny Rose
The Stunt Man