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Need a good movie for a rainy afternoon. (Original Post) cwydro Oct 2017 OP
Local Hero. Aristus Oct 2017 #1
Oh I love this! cwydro Oct 2017 #2
You've seen it before? Aristus Oct 2017 #3
No, I have not. cwydro Oct 2017 #6
That is one of my all time favorite movies! Siwsan Oct 2017 #26
Mine, too. Aristus Oct 2017 #28
Or the scene when the young woman is asked about the father of her child Siwsan Oct 2017 #29
"Lawrence of Arabia!" yallerdawg Oct 2017 #4
My fathers favorite movie... cwydro Oct 2017 #7
Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein Eliot Rosewater Oct 2017 #5
Lol, I will add that to the list. cwydro Oct 2017 #8
Purple Rain (n/t) PJMcK Oct 2017 #9
Wow. Saw that years ago. cwydro Oct 2017 #10
How about Rain (1932) PJMcK Oct 2017 #11
Never heard of that. cwydro Oct 2017 #12
I just saw Howard's End for the first time. Really enjoyed it. Irish_Dem Oct 2017 #13
I do. cwydro Oct 2017 #14
1980 mini series, Pride and Prejudice. The BEST. Irish_Dem Oct 2017 #15
Arsenic and Old Lace JustAnotherGen Oct 2017 #16
Ghost and Mrs Muir! cwydro Oct 2017 #22
Love Gene Tierney JustAnotherGen Oct 2017 #24
I googled her after watching the movie. cwydro Oct 2017 #31
Watched the Ghost and Mrs. Muir today. cwydro Oct 2017 #25
Hoosiers Chipper Chat Oct 2017 #17
Never heard of that Everglades movie. cwydro Oct 2017 #20
excellent movie. Chipper Chat Oct 2017 #23
Blade Runner Action_Patrol Oct 2017 #18
The original "Bedazzled" with Dudley Moore if you want to laugh world wide wally Oct 2017 #19
Ive never seen that. cwydro Oct 2017 #21
Wanna laugh? Rat Race with Whoopi Goldberg louis-t Oct 2017 #27
Im a huge Whoopi fan cwydro Oct 2017 #32
Dave Laura PourMeADrink Oct 2017 #30
Is that Kevin Kline? cwydro Oct 2017 #33
yes...you may have seen...but great mix of politics and pathos. Laura PourMeADrink Oct 2017 #34
 

cwydro

(51,308 posts)
6. No, I have not.
Mon Oct 23, 2017, 12:55 PM
Oct 2017

I just know it’s a film I will like.

Wish my mom was around to watch it with me.

Siwsan

(26,250 posts)
26. That is one of my all time favorite movies!
Tue Oct 24, 2017, 12:27 PM
Oct 2017

I love Bill Forsyth's take on life. His humor and slightly quirky style reminds me of Richard Lester.

Aristus

(66,286 posts)
28. Mine, too.
Tue Oct 24, 2017, 01:44 PM
Oct 2017

It's so life-affirming.

I love the scene where Mac and Rev. MacMurdo are watching the RAF practice bomb runs.

MacMurdo says: "As long as they are bombing the beach, they can't be bombing anywhere else. It's kind of comforting."

Siwsan

(26,250 posts)
29. Or the scene when the young woman is asked about the father of her child
Tue Oct 24, 2017, 01:59 PM
Oct 2017

And everyone goes 'sheepish'.

A suggested film that I love is called 'Very Annie Mary' with Rachel Griffiths, Jonathan Pryce, Ioan Gryffudd and Matthew Rhys. It is a delightful Welsh film, full of wonderful humor, pathos, and (of course) singing. And it is a rare Welsh themed film, in that the actors are actually Welsh! The ending is, for me, pure delight. This is the IMDB synopsis:

When Annie Mary was 16, she was offered a scholarship to sing in Milan, but was never allowed to go because her mother was dying. Now Annie Mary is 33 and no longer sings. She lives under the shadow of her chapel-strict father, known to all as The Voice of the Valleys, who sees himself as a budding Pavarotti. She wants to break free, but her father has a stroke and demands even more of her. When she finally rebels, the whole village becomes involved in a competition to raise money and get Annie's terminally ill best friend, 16-year-old, Bethan Bevan to Disneyland. Unfortunately Annie loses all the money they win betting on horses! She is now the most unpopular person in the village until she is asked to sing again... and Annie Mary realises that she can, at last, move on.



JustAnotherGen

(31,781 posts)
24. Love Gene Tierney
Tue Oct 24, 2017, 10:48 AM
Oct 2017

She looked like my mom's mother only with blue instead of very dark eyes. No joking.

 

cwydro

(51,308 posts)
31. I googled her after watching the movie.
Sat Oct 28, 2017, 12:33 AM
Oct 2017

Kind of a tragic life.

But it made me buy a Monkey Puzzle tree!

Now...where to plant it...

Great movie...watched it twice. Reckon I’ll have to name this tree Gen lol.

Chipper Chat

(9,673 posts)
23. excellent movie.
Tue Oct 24, 2017, 08:39 AM
Oct 2017

About poaching in early 1900s. Christopher plummer and Burl Ives star. Lots of snakes & critters of course.

louis-t

(23,267 posts)
27. Wanna laugh? Rat Race with Whoopi Goldberg
Tue Oct 24, 2017, 01:19 PM
Oct 2017

Wayne Knight, John Cleese, Seth Green, Jon Lovitz, Cuba Gooding Jr, Kathy Bates and Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) ...funny stuff. Watched it in 2001 in Orlando on a rainy Sunday and had to leave the room several times because I was laughing so hard.

 

cwydro

(51,308 posts)
32. Im a huge Whoopi fan
Sat Oct 28, 2017, 12:35 AM
Oct 2017

Thank you. Gonna check it out.

I actually live five miles from where the Color Purple was filmed.

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