Feel Good Films
/Hello there - I think everyone and their mother knows I’ve been battling a sinus infection for well over a week and have spent much time laying about in bed. So many friends asked what I’ve been watching that I decided I’d share here! Enjoy!
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House - this film is one of my and my husbands favorites. I mean it’s Cary Grant - it’s so enjoyable watching he and Myrna Loy building their dream home in Connecticut.
I also watched The Philadelphia Story - I love this film with Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and Jimmy Stewart. When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
Suspicion - another Cary Grant film this time he’s with Joan Fontaine. A shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her in this Alfred Hitchcock film.
Rebecca - Joan Fontaine as a young woman trying to adjust to her role as an aristocrat's new wife in this Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece - it’s hard to find I have it through You Tube. “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderlay again seemed to me I stood by the Iron gate leading to the drive…” and the Franz Waxman music takes you away.
Now Voyager - Who doesn’t love Bette Davis as a woman trying to build a life for herself away from her overbearing mother.
All About Eve - An ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an established but aging stage actress Bette Davis and her circle of friends - at first Eve Harrington seems to be so sweet and helpful but we’ll soon see the real Eve.
Jezebel - The film tells the story of a headstrong young Southern Bette Davis during the antebellum period whose actions cost her the man she loves.
The Old Maid - Set during the Civil War, Bette Davis comforts her cousin Miriam Hopkins old beau Clem, who enlists and is later killed. Shortly after his death, she discovers she is pregnant with his child.
Dark Passage - Humphrey Bogart is marvelous as a man convicted of murdering his wife who escapes prison and works with Lauren Becall to prove his innocence.
Mildred Pierce - Mildred separated from her husband, takes a job waitressing to support her daughters which she hides from her pretentious elder daughter Veda, who thinks it demeaning. Mildred opens three successful restaurants and Veda enjoys Mildred’s financial success but increasingly turns ungrateful and openly condemns Mildred and anyone else who must work for a living.
Now onto to some modern films.
Brideshead Revisited the 2008 version - Matthew Goode is magnificent.
Sleepless in Seattle - This Meg Ryan Tom Hanks romance has become a classic. It makes you believe in love and the ability to find it again.
You’ve Got Mail - this loosely based remake of The Shop Around the Corner has Tom Hanks as a Book superstore magnate and Meg Ryan the owner of a small independent book shop who fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet both blissfully unaware of who the other is.
The Da Vinci Code - not my usual fair but, I was looking for Tom Hanks and I found this very interesting and lays claim to ideas I had read of previously about the relationship between Mary Magdalene and Jesus Christ.
Love Actually - Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London. A bunch of British accents and romance - most enjoyable and I’ve been told a Christmas classic.
Notting Hill - Hugh Grant as a bookshop owner who’s life changes when he meets the most famous film star in the world - Julia Roberts. I loved this film in 1999 and I still love it today.
The Holiday - Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz as two gals with guy-troubles who swap their British cottage and LA mansion homes over the Christmas holidays.
This is Where I Leave You - I’m a big Jason Bateman fan and this film shares complicated and funny family relationships. After their father passes away four grown siblings return to their childhood home and live under the same roof for a week, along with their over-sharing mother and an assortment of spouses, exes and might-have-beens.
Sixteen Candles - This film opened spring of my senior year in High School and I still agree with Molly Ringwald ’s character thoughts on Porsche driving dreamy Jake - “Jake is a senior, and he's beautiful and perfect. I like him a real lot…” I’m always happy to watch this!
I hope you found a movie or two or more - please let me know your favorites in the comments below and sign up for the Newsletter in the sidebar while you’re here! Til next time be well friends!
