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**‘Avanti’ – 1971 w/Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills (she is still alive) – absolutely special and great music !
‘The Big Short’ – making profits on stock prices falling – the mortgage debacle
‘Margin Call’ – the destruction of a brokerage with too much outstanding (it happened to several) – real
‘Snowden’ – hacking everything (the NSA sure does)
‘The Judge’ – Downey and Duval
‘To catch a thief’ – Cary Grant and Princess Grace
‘Jet Lag’ – (in English, not French) – Jean Reno, Juliette is beautiful
‘Passengers’ – togetherness and…… enjoying where you live rather than looking for some other place
‘The Apartment’ -- Jack Lemmon
‘The Quiet Man’ – John Wayne
‘Kinky Boots’ – Chiwetal ……
‘Irma la Deuce’ – Jack Lemmon and Shirley Mac Laine
‘Love is all you need’ – a special connection
‘The Sure Thing’ – John Cusack
‘No strings attached – sex first, love later
‘How to Murder your wife’ – Jack Lemmon, Terry Thomas
‘The Hundred Foot Journey’ – exceptional
‘Serendipity’ – John Cusack
‘A Good Year’ – good wine and a good decision
‘The Man from U.N.C.L.E.’ – good fun
‘The Family’ – Dinero
‘Dave’ -- Kevin Kline
‘Waking Ned Devine’ – winning the Irish lottery
‘Donovan’s Reef’ – John Wayne
‘An Affair to remember’ – Cary Grant
‘Roman Holiday’ – Audrey Hepburn’s first movie of note
‘Doc Hollywood’ – Michael J Fox
‘The Girl Next door’ – a scholarship to college
‘Notting Hill’ – a particular place in London
‘Kelly’s Heroes’ – Clint Eastwood
‘Wind’ – a boat race
‘Wimbledon’ – that summer tennis tournament
‘The Commitments’ -- great music, the lead singer, was only 16 when they made that film
‘Bandits’ – Bruce Willis
‘Leap Year’ – Amy Adams and Matthew Goode
**‘Let It Ride’ – Richard Dreyfus
‘Victor/Victoria’
‘Stalag 17’ – William Holden
‘In Harms Way’
‘They Were Expendable’ – John Wayne
‘We’re No Angels’ – Aldo Ray and Humphrey Bogart (not the remake)
‘Father Goose’ – Cary Grant
*‘Life as a House’ -- ….. Legacy !
‘Now you see me’ – magic
‘That thing you do’ – one hit wonders w/ Tom Hanks
‘The Cutting Edge’ – performance questioned
‘Chariots of Fire’ -- ‘the race’
‘Dances with wolves’ – Costner
‘Definitely Maybe’ – of course it is in time
‘Fools rush in’ – Vegas sort of
‘French Kiss’ – special
‘Lawrence of Arabia’ – true story
‘She’s out of my league’ – no she is not, keep trying for (Alice Eve)
‘Mannequin’ – Wannamaker’s in Philadelphia (a wonderful store)
‘Operation Petticoat’ – Cary Grant and Tony Curtis
‘Sahara’ – McConaghey
‘Six Days Seven Nights’ – Good scenery
‘Christmas Eve’ – story line is uneven, but …. It does say something’
‘Fury’ – war does terrible things to all
‘Random Hearts’ – career or love
‘The Next Three Days’ – is right wrong?
‘The Wedding Guest’ – Dev Patel – listen and look carefully
*‘The First Time’ – Britt and Dylan became real, personal and lasted from (2012)
‘The Family Stone’ – good cast – really?
‘Captain Newman, MD’ – true to past events – all star cast!
‘Griffin and Phoenix’ – appreciating life
‘Freedom Writers’ – something to think about
*‘Five Feet Apart’ – a loving touch is everything – love and sacrifice – being alone
‘Racing in the Rain’ – love the dog
‘The Hot Spot’ – what you wish for
‘Made in Italy’ – Father and Son (real father and son)
‘Blackhat’ – computers, codes and money
‘News of the World’ – Tom Hanks / settlers moving West after the Civil War
‘Salmon Fishing in the Yemen’ – an idea come to life w/non believing partners
‘Bullitt’ – how could I forget Steve McQueen
‘Love with the Proper Stranger’ – McQueen and Natalie Wood
‘My Blue Heaven’ – Steve Martin extraordinaire
‘Spy Game’ – Redford
‘Casablanca’ – Bogart and Bergman
‘The Best Years of our Lives’ – returning home
‘Schindler’s List’ – unforgettable – unfortunately
‘Getting to Know You’ – honest or honorable decisions ?
‘The Way Back’ – recovery is long and hard
‘Man Up’ – delicious British light comedy
‘The Fighter’ – true story
‘The Way, Way Back’ – how can you say that to a child
‘What If’ – from the first time we met …
‘This is Where I Leave You’ – complications
‘Presumed Innocent’ – Raul Julia and Harrison Ford
‘The Verdict’ – Paul Newman and James Mason -at their best
‘A Royal Night Out’ – entertaining
‘Love Story’ – heartbreaking (1970)
‘12 O’clock High’ – Gregory Peck
‘The Searchers’ – John Wayne
*‘Violets are Blue’ – Sissy Spacek and Kevin Kline
‘Star Wars’ – star’s when they were young
‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ – Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed
‘Man on Fire’ – Denzel
‘Dirty Dancing’- Jennifer Grey, Patrick
‘Pretty Woman’ – Julia Roberts
‘Shawshank Redemption’ – Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman
‘Jaws’ – the fake fish
‘Gladiator’ – Russell Crowe
‘Vertigo’ – Kim Novak, Jimmy Stewart
‘Forrest Gump’ – Tom Hanks
‘Godfather I and II’ – Brando and Pacino
‘Some Like It Hot’ – Jack Lemon and Tony Curtis
‘Doctor Zhivago’ – Julie Christy
‘It Happened One Night’ – Clark Gable
‘Mr. Roberts’ – Henry Fonda
‘Going My Way’ – Bing Crosby
‘Kramer vs Kramer’ – Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep
‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’ – Stewart again
‘Clean and Sober’ – Michael Keaton
‘Patton’ – George C. Scott
‘The Great Escape’ – they escaped, captured, shot
‘The African Queen’ – a classic
‘Zero Dark Thirty’ - true
‘Gone With the Wind’ – the South
‘Saving Private Ryan’ – sacrifice
‘The Bourne Identity’ – *the books are great
‘The Bourne Supremacy’ – *the movies are good enough
‘The Bourne Ultimatum’ –
*‘Falling in Love’ – DeNiro and Streep
‘Infinite Storm’ – true story
‘Land’ – Robin Wright – hopeful triumph over despair, hopelessness
‘Night Owls’ – a football coach theme (?)
‘Something Borrowed’ – make a decision – sometime, right ?
**‘It Was Always You’ – should have this Romantic statement in your life ! Always….
*’The Choice’ – faith, love, determination, decisions
**’Before We Go’ – Wonderful – Chris Evans and Alice Eve - where is that special Love we can struggle through life with
‘Cousins’ – Ted Danson, Isabella Rossellini – decisions to find or be - ‘Happy’
*‘A Paris Proposal’- endearing understanding of someone who could be the one to Love, forever
‘A Picture of Her’ – what type of life do you want to live/what kind of person do you want to be?
‘The Birdcage’ – Robin Williams and Nathan Lane – oh boy!
‘The Young Philadelphians’ – Paul Newman
**‘Sabrina’ – poignant savior Sabrina Fair! – Julia Ormond is a wonderful delight!
‘The Bridge over the River Kwai’
’12 Angry Men’ – Henry Fonda
1939...one heck of a year for good movies.
- gone with the wind
- The wizard of oz
- Stagecoach
- Mr. Smith goes to Washington
- Wuthering Heights
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips
- Of Mice and Men
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Gunga Din
- The Little Princess (Shirley Temple)
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Gulliver's Travels
- Midnight
