<p>There are quite a few but some that come to mind are Shawshank Redemption, Alive, A Time To Kill, and Fried Green Tomatoes</p>
<p>Jaws, Rocky, and my guilty pleasure, Bring It On.</p>
<p>I forgot all about Jaws!!! See, I said there were a lot. I think I’ve seen that movie at least 20 times.</p>
<p>My all time favorite book and movie, To Kill A Mockingbird. I never tire of it. At Christmas time, I watch A White Christmas and A Christmas Story. Other than those movies, I don’t enjoy watching anything more than once.</p>
<p>ETA:
I’m jealous! I plan to go to Munroeville, AL (Harper Lee’s birthplace) in April or May to see their yearly production of To Kill A Mockingbird. I was so disappointed last year when I missed out on the special performance where I could have met Mary Badham. My husband had purchased a first edition book for me several years ago for Christmas and I would love to meet her and have her sign it.</p>
<p>My Cousin Vinnie, Back to the Future (all three), Fantasia</p>
<p>I agree that Goodfellas and National Lampoon’s Vacation are great for re-watching.</p>
<p>What about movies (or movie scenes) that move you to tears every single time? For me some of them are: the liftoff in Apollo 13; the end of *Shadowlands<a href=“Anthony%20Hopkins”>/I</a>; a certain scene in Terms of Endearment; the ending of Places in the Heart…</p>
<p>Groundhog Day, GWTW, All about Eve, Charade, On the Town, The Gay Divorce, The Letter, Holiday Inn, Double Indemnity. #10 is To Kill a Mockingbird, which we’re going to see on the big screen on November 15th! So excited.</p>
<p>If any of the above movies happen to be on when I’m channel surfing, I have to stop and see it through the end. I can make any day better by putting one of them in the DVD player.</p>
<p>I love the CC movie threads - thanks for starting this one, MommaJ.</p>
<p>Interesting.</p>
<p>I just realized how few movies I’ve seen compared to many of you and how seldom I watch even my favorites over a time or two. </p>
<p>I’m thinking I’ll use this thread to up my movie cred.</p>
<p>Annie Hall (and most Woody Allen films up through Manhattan)
The Producers (the original, with Zero Mostel)
The Apartment
Some Like it Hot
Casablanca
The Philadelphia Story
To Kill a Mockingbird
M<em>A</em>S*H
Shawshank
The Godfather I & II
Goodfellas
And for a guilty pleasure: You’ve Got Mail</p>
<p>There are some movies that I love to watch again depending on my mood, like Taxi Driver and The Deer Hunter, but I have to be in the right frame of mind.</p>
<p>I like to watch Donnie Brasco once in awhile maybe because of the Florida connections.</p>
<p>Ruthless People. I had to own it. It makes me laugh out loud EVERY time I watch it.</p>
<p>Inglorious Basterds and The English Patient</p>
<p>I enjoy watching over and over movies directed by Quentin Tarantino, including: Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill, and Jackie Brown.</p>
<p>NJTheatreMOM:
I’m an easy movie crier. I’ll cry because a dance number was so great, because the actor or actress in an old film is so young and beautiful, because the writer thought up just exactly the right line. But the scene I can’t even think about without tearing up is running through security at the airport in Love Actually. Runners-up: Ashley coming home in Gone with the Wind; the ending of To Kill a Mockingbird. Also the music.</p>
<p>So many of mine are repeats especially To Kill A Mocking Bird, but I also love A Few Good Men, Gone With The Wind, Hoosiers, Friday Night Lights and the guilty pleasure Legally Blonde.</p>
<p>Breakfast at Tiffany’s with Audrey Hepburn. Giant with Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean. East of Eden.</p>
<p>Lord of the Rings trilogy, Pride & Prejudice (the long BBC version), and You’ve Got Mail.</p>
<ol>
<li>The Best Years of Our Lives. Best movie ever. Tremendous depth.</li>
<li>What’s Up, Doc? The great modern screwball comedy with perhaps the best comic chase scene ever. And it’s ancestor:</li>
<li>Bringing Up Baby. </li>
<li>I Married A Witch. </li>
</ol>
<p>Just below this group I’d put:</p>
<ol>
<li>Full Metal Jacket - PFC Joker: “I wanted to be the first kid on my block to get a confirmed kill!”</li>
<li>The Big Lebowski</li>
<li>The Lady Eve - really a place-holder for all Preston Sturges movies; I watch them in a sort of rotation to keep them fresh.</li>
<li>My Cousin Vinnie</li>
<li>Animal House</li>
<li>Days of Heaven</li>
</ol>
<p>And then there are movies I own and watch bits of repeatedly:</p>
<ol>
<li>The Court Jester. “The vessel with the pestle has the pellet with the poison. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.” That scene kills me.</li>
<li>The Manchurian Candidate (original). The brainwashing presentation set in a garden party.</li>
<li>Any dancing from Astaire & Rogers. I have all the movies. The plots wear on you.</li>
<li>The Blue Brothers. The getting the band together scenes, particularly the Ray Charles, John Lee Hooker and Aretha scenes.</li>
</ol>
<p>My wife would add Imitation of Life and October Sky. My youngest would add the BBC miniseries of Pride & Prejudice.</p>
<p>Several times, last night, she mentioned about being back in Monroeville last year, and how much she enjoyed their production, and how wonderful it was. It was interesting listening to her talk about all of the scenes that were cut out of the movie–many of them involving the character Mrs. Dubose–and also those involving her relationship with Calpurnia–wouldn’t it be great if, somehow, we could see those deleted scenes?!</p>
<p>Lergnom, I agree that The Best Years if Our Lives is superb. Anybody who hasn’t seen it, should…in my opinion.</p>
<p>Another wonderful older classic is the French film Children of Paradise.</p>
<p>Back in the years when it was harder to get hold of films, I had to go for quite a while without being able to see either of those again, and I felt deprived.</p>