 In Love in a Movie |
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1. CASABLANCA (1942)
I first saw this film only a few years ago, and I think it deserves to be at the top of this list. Or any list for that matter. It's so funny, it's so moving, it's so romantic, it's so inspiring (the singing of the dueling German and French songs KILLS ME), it's so well-acted and well-shot, and it still moves so many people so much who will never, ever agree on whom she should have ended up with in the end. It's an amazing movie and shame on me before seeing it for ever assuming that it is overrated, because it's impossible to overrate this movie. 2. GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) I watched this movie approximately ten thousand times when I was little. I still own it on VHS. I'd agree that it's pretty damn passionate, alright. I always thought that Ashley was grossly uninteresting and a total drip and could never understand why Scarlett would be remotely interested in him, though, and Melanie was so boringly good that I wanted to strangle her. 3. WEST SIDE STORY (1961) We had this record when I was little, and I would put it on and borrow my mom's scarves and lock the door and dance around my room waving them around while singing along with "America" at the top of my lungs. Having viewed this many times as a child and as an adult, I can say that it's really one of the perfect musicals, and I say that even though I loathe the casting choice of the guy who played Tony. Everyone else? Perfect. I don't care that it's not Natalie Wood's voice. She is beautiful and perfect. And Rita Moreno is amazing. And Riff is now Dog Walking God. The music and the story are both beautiful, and the cinematography and choreography are dazzling. DAZZLING. LOVE IT. 4. ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953) Its giant movie poster adorns my living room wall. I really do not understand how it's possible for a person not to love and adore this movie. It's so funny, it's so romantic, it's so beautiful, and it's so damn sad. I was so excited when it came out on DVD that I purchased it immediately. How anyone can watch this and not fall instantly in love with Audrey Hepburn or Gregory Peck is beyond me. I think they have amazing chemistry in this, and it's one of those movies where I just bite my nails and pray inwardly that they will go ahead and throw themselves at each other. It's a definite favorite of mine. 5. AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER (1957) My mother had been talking about this one my entire life. I never saw it until a few years ago, though, when we watched it together. And I cried at the end. Of course I did. I also loved all of the witty banter between the two leads when they were first meeting on the ship and falling in love even though they knew they shouldn't be. I can never think of this movie without thinking of all of the references to it in Sleepless in Seattle. 6. THE WAY WE WERE (1973) This might be kind of blasphemous, but this movie never really did it for me. 7. DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965) Weirdly, I don't think I've ever seen this, even though it's one of my mom's favorite movies. "Somewhere My Love" was a song I grew up knowing because she sang it a lot and played it on the piano. I think maybe I had a music box that played that song. I feel like maybe I saw it years ago. Does it involve a carriage and a lot of snow? Isn't it about Russia? 8. IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) Ho, hum. 9. LOVE STORY (1970) I read this book long before I saw the movie. It was one of my favorites when I was a little girl. I have no idea why. I guess because it's really spare and simple prose and because I thought it was terribly romantic and tragic, which it is, but I never ever bought the "love means never having to say you're sorry" line. Even as a little kid, I knew that was total bullshit. I like the movie okay, and God help me, I love the music, but I've got to say, Ali McGraw kind of bugs. I mean, I always thought the most moving part of the book was the very end when Oliver cries in his father's arms. I wasn't even that sad when Jenny died. I loved all of the Ivy League, hockey playing, snow falling, lawyer/musician, rich family/poor family stuff, though, when I was little. I thought all of that was super cool, and I loved the name Oliver so much that I sincerely thought I might one day name my future son that until it was RUINED by Oliver on The O.C. 10. CITY LIGHTS (1931) I have not seen nor heard of this. 11. ANNIE HALL (1977) I have never seen this! Maybe there is something wrong with me. 12. MY FAIR LADY (1964) My mother always would tell me the story of how terrible it was when Julie Andrews, who had originated this role on Broadway, was passed over for the film in favor of Audrey Hepburn, who couldn't even sing. My mom acknowledged that Audrey Hepburn was wonderful, but she had this whole theory about how Julie Andrews won the Oscar for Mary Poppins (over Audrey Hepburn, who wasn't even nominated for My Fair Lady) because she had been so wronged in not getting this part. Anyway, all of the music from this movie is music I grew up knowing, because my dad would sing the songs on our Singing Machine (waaaay before the term "karaoke" was ever uttered in America and back when the only thing it played was 8 tracks), especially "On The Street Where You Live." And I sang "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" (changing the pronoun) in a festival my senior year like a dork and bawled my brains out afterwards because I thought it was just the saddest song of all time. 13. OUT OF AFRICA (1985) I have never seen this. I have the book, though, and I keep meaning to read it. 14. THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951) I've never seen this. I've only heard of it because it's one of the movies playing at the White House in White House Autumn, and I think Meg invites Josh over to watch it. 15. WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939) I've never seen it. 16. SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952) After seeing the stage adaptation in London this summer, I finally watched the actual movie for the first time a few weeks ago. And it was great! I certainly wouldn't put it in the same spectrum of passion as the top five on this list as far as the romance goes, but I definitely appreciate the passion of the dancing. Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor dance so incredibly together. That's the best part of this movie to me. 17. MOONSTRUCK (1987) This is a pretty good movie. 18. VERTIGO (1958) I've never seen this. 19. GHOST (1990) Oh, Lord. I am sure I sobbed my sweet eyes out when I saw this in ninth grade. Now it's just kind of embarrassing to watch. 20. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953) I've never seen this. 21. PRETTY WOMAN (1990) Well, I don't really care what this movie's message is. There is no way on God's green earth that my little ninth grade heart wasn't going to think this was the best thing ever. And my family's entire visit to Beverly Hills a few years later involved stalking certain locations in this film, and that's a really happy memory of mine. 22. ON GOLDEN POND (1981) Never seen it. 23. NOW, VOYAGER (1942) Never seen it. 24. KING KONG (1933) Never seen it. 25. WHEN HARRY MET SALLY... (1989) Come on. I have loved this movie since the first time I saw it and in every of the hundreds if not thousands of viewings since. This movie started my teenage love affair with Harry Connick, Jr. I think this movie needs to be a lot higher on this list. If I had to pick the perfect modern romantic comedy, this would be it, no question, no contest, end of story. 26. THE LADY EVE (1941) Never seen it, never heard of it. 27. THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) How can you just stick this in the middle of some list as #27? I mean, please. This movie is just in a class by itself. It is such an integral part of what my very first memory of movies even was (along with Grease) and such a vital part of the collective memory of my entire family that I can't even talk about it reasonably or objectively. If you're ever in Austria, please do the tour. It's so dorky, but it's so, so fun. 28. THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940) I've never seen this, but isn't You've Got Mail kind of based on it? I did not care for You've Got Mail when I first saw it, and I still think the ending is really, really lame and poorly constructed, but as I've caught the movie numerous times on TNT since it seems to be on practically every week, it's grown on me somewhat. 29. AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN (1982) This movie has never done it for me. 30. SWING TIME (1936) I've never seen this, but Christian Bale is very hot in Swing Kids. 31. THE KING AND I (1956) My love for this movie is so tied up in my mother. It's one of her all time favorites. I remember when I was little she explained that we knew that the king died because his hand slipped down from the bed, and from that point on, I was terrified to let my hand drop off the side of the bed when I was falling asleep. The "Shall We Dance" scene is stunning, and the new studio cast recording is wonderful. 32. DARK VICTORY (1939) Nope. 33. CAMILLE (1937) The only thing I know about this one is that it was the one that Annie, Daddy Warbucks, and Grace went to see after singing "Let's Go to the Movies" and that it looked really melodramatic and sad. 34. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991) I wish I could write intelligently about movies like Jette instead of just remembering how I felt when I first saw them. I think it was junior year of high school, and I think I was with Shelley and Maryelizabeth and J. And I know I ripped an ad for it out of a magazine and taped it up to my bedroom wall and that it pictured them dancing under a caption that read, "The Greatest Love Story Ever Told." And I think at the time I really believed that. I loved this movie. I still do. 35. GIGI (1958) To me, this movie is my dad singing "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" to my sister and me. 36. RANDOM HARVEST (1942) Never heard of it. 37. TITANIC (1997) Okay. I have never been one of the haters of this movie. I totally went to see it like three times, and I totally bawled every time, and I was totally mad at the time that Leo wasn't nominated for an Oscar. Okay? Okay! I admit it! I loved him in that movie right along with every other teenage girl on earth (except that I was 22). I mean, I found this movie perfectly enjoyable. It's over the top and overwrought and ridiculous at times, but it's pretty. The clothes are pretty, the ship is pretty, the people are pretty, and I really thought that it was sad when Jack died. I didn't really care for the present day stuff and could have lived without the entire Heart of the Ocean subplot, but I really love Kate Winslet so much that I love her in anything, and I just don't see how anyone can't find Leo at least somewhat likeable in this. And Jack Bristow saying telling Rose he was sorry for not building her a stronger ship? Come on! I totally will watch it if it comes on TV. So, sorry. If that makes me the dumbest person who ever lived, so be it. 38. IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934) I haven't seen this. 39. AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951) Or this. 40. NINOTCHKA (1939) Huh? 41. FUNNY GIRL (1968) I've only seen this once, and it was really good, but I think since I didn't grow up with it, I'll never love it like people who did do. 42. ANNA KARENINA (1935) Nope. 43. A STAR IS BORN (1954) I've never seen this. 44. THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940) To Elizabeth's GREAT chagrin, I have never seen this, but I swear that it is in my Netflix queue. 45. SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE (1993) This movie makes me think of both my mother and my sister. I have since seen it millions of times, and I love it without shame or reservation. I think it's perfectly cast, and it's so weird now to know that Jack Bristow is Tom Hanks's brother-in-law and they go off on that whole spiel while making fun of Rita Wilson's (totally hilarious and wonderful) breakdown while describing the number five movie on this list. The kids are perfect, pre-plastic-surgery-ruination Meg Ryan was still so pretty even though I never really liked her with long hair, and it's just funny and sweet and sappy and wonderful and on my list, it would definitely be higher than this. 46. TO CATCH A THIEF (1955) Nope. 47. SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS (1961) I thought this was kind of weird and boring even though I LOVE the work the title comes from. 48. LAST TANGO IN PARIS (1972) I've never seen this, but I know when my mom told me I wasn't allowed to see Hard to Hold (because we totally just wanted to see Rick Springfield's shlong, because we heard he got naked in it) or Sixteen Candles at a fourth grade birthday party, she would always say something like, "If I let you see this, I might as well let you see Last Tango in Paris!" Whatever the hell that meant. Frankly, I think this means I probably need to see this movie as soon as possible. And damn it, I never did see Hard to Hold. 49. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946) Never seen it. 50. SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE (1998) There is not a false note in this entire film for me. It makes me laugh and is brilliant and breaks my heart every single time. I would have this in the top ten of this list. My love for this movie will never age, nor fade, nor die. 51. BRINGING UP BABY (1938) No. 52. THE GRADUATE (1967) This is probably the movie on this list that I haven't seen that I would most like to see. 53. A PLACE IN THE SUN (1951) I haven't seen this. 54. SABRINA (1954) I've seen both versions of this, and I don't really think either of them is all that great, but I definitely preferred this one. Julia Ormond is perfectly lovely, but how can she compete with Audrey Hepburn? She cannot. 55. REDS (1981) Haven't seen it. Let me say that Red Dawn scared the hell out of me, though. 56. THE ENGLISH PATIENT (1996) I was one of those freaks who saw this in the theater four times. I think that you either love or hate this movie, and I loved it from the get go. I thought it was so deep and profound and didn't care if it lasted nearly three hours or eight. After reading the book later, I realized that the movie doesn't even begin to touch on the complexities or depth or beauty of the novel, but I still love it. And to this day I am overcome with a feeling of justice and rightness that Juliette Binoche won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, even though she could have won Best Lead Actress for the same role, because she was so wonderful and owned the movie. I love it to this day, but I understand why some people hate it a whole lot. I mean, either it grabs you or it doesn't, and it certainly grabbed me. 57. TWO FOR THE ROAD (1967) For some reason until I noticed the date I thought this was the movie with Charlie Sheen and the redhead from The Goonies and Lucas and Cameron Frye. But obviously, it is not. 58. GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER (1967) I know I've seen this, but it's been ages and ages. 59. PICNIC (1955) No. 60. TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1944) No. 61. BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (1961) I've got to tell you. I love Audrey Hepburn as much as the next person. I really do. But I just don't think this is a good movie. I don't understand the whole thing with Mickey Rooney playing the Asian neighbor. I don't understand her relationship with George Peppard. And I just could not ever forgive her for dumping that cat out in the rain. And when I did a Google search to make sure that I remembered that correctly, sure enough, mo's review turned up in the search list. And she didn't like that part either. Because it sucked! 62. THE APARTMENT (1960) Nope. 63. SUNRISE (1927) No idea. But let me take this chance to recommend the similarly named Before Sunrise. 64. MARTY (1955) Nope. 65. BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967) I saw this a few years ago and was blown away. (Ha ha.) (For real, though.) I wasn't really familiar with the story. I think that this is a pretty flawless film, and it's so interesting to me that it was pretty much the most violent thing ever and really changed the way movies are made. The actors are all wonderful. 66. MANHATTAN (1979) Maryelizabeth and I were friends with a girl in high school who put this on one night when we had a sleepover, and I fell asleep. But that didn't stop me from having the movie poster up in my room for years, because I thought it was beautiful. 67. A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951) I feel certain that I watched this in a class, and really, what self-respecting person from this state hasn't seen this? I should probably see it again. 68. WHAT'S UP, DOC? (1972) I've only seen this once, but I thought it was totally hilarious. I mostly remember a scene under a table. 69. HAROLD AND MAUDE (1971) I've never seen this, but I feel like celebrities always say that this is their favorite movie. 70. SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1995) One of my favorite romantic movies. I don't know why I don't own this. I know I've rented it many, many times. It was the first time I saw Kate Winslet, I guess, and I loved her from the start, and of course, Emma Thompson is incredible, and Hugh Grant is fetching and Greg Wise is, forget about it, hot like fire. When I first saw it, I could not understand how Marianne could end up with Colonel Brandon, but now I do. My favorite part of this movie is probably everyone's favorite part, and that's when Elinor realizes that Edward isn't married and absolutely unwinds and falls into pieces, and he tells her that his heart is and always has been hers. GOD. JUST FORGET ABOUT IT. I love this movie. And I love that Emma Thompson and Super Hot Willoughby ended up together in real life and have now procreated. 71. WAY DOWN EAST (1920) Never seen it or heard of it. 72. ROXANNE (1987) I haven't seen this since around the time it first came out. I've never really cared for Darryl Hannah, but I remember thinking that Steve Martin was great. 73. THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR (1947) Never seen it. 74. WOMAN OF THE YEAR (1942) Nope. 75. THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT (1995) Who hasn't seen this movie a million times? It's another one that is on all the time. I like this movie for a lot of reasons, like Aaron Sorkin and how it basically inspired him to do The West Wing, which I once really loved with all my heart. And Annette Bening is so good that she makes me believe that she could really be in love with Michael Douglas, and he's so great that he makes me want Andrew Shepherd to be our president. All the supporting cast is great, too, even though it's kind of weird now to see Jed Bartlet as Leo McGarry. 76. THE QUIET MAN (1952) Nope. 77. THE AWFUL TRUTH (1937) And ... no. I can't even think about this title without thinking of Ted Casablanca. 78. COMING HOME (1978) I've never seen it, but I recently suggested to Maryelizabeth that she screen it before moving back here soon. Clearly her return can be no more traumatic than this! 79. JEZEBEL (1939) Nope. 80. THE SHEIK (1921) No. 81. THE GOODBYE GIRL (1977) No, but wasn't this remade recently as a TV movie with Debra Barone? 82. WITNESS (1985) I've only seen clips of this, such as the one of Harrison Ford and Kelly McGillis in the barn. I've always wanted to see it, because it's supposed to be really smouldering, so maybe I'll check it out. 83. MOROCCO (1930) No. 84. DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) Sigh. No. 85. LOVE IS A MANY-SPLENDORED THING (1955) No, but I know that the song plays at the beginning of Grease segues into the Grease theme song right after Danny promises Sandy that this is only the beginning and it is AWESOME. 86. NOTORIOUS (1946) No. 87. THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING (1988) No, but I've started this book and I have vowed to finish it. Okay, I just looked it up? Juliette Binoche and Lena Olin are in this? And Daniel Day Lewis? I think I will probably be renting it before I finish the book. Shit! 88. THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) I first saw this at a slumber party in the seventh grade. I was genuinely confused and surprised when Buttercup said, "I died that day, and you can die too for all I care!" and shoved the Dread Pirate Roberts down the hill and he shouted and bounced, "As you wiiiiiish...." and she said, "Oh, my sweet Westley, what have I done?" and jumps after him. Like, I think I was just too young or dumb for it to fully register that it was actually Westley. Which just shows that I was a truly unsophisticated and dumb seventh grader. But I loved it then, and I love it now, and I've owned it since I was old enough to figure out how, and I even have the soundtrack on cassette. 89. WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1966) This movie scared the shit out of me and made me never want to get married. I remember that there were some really funny parts, but I mostly just remember the fighting and screaming. I've only seen it once. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are awesome in it. I think I watched this in a class in high school, though I can't remember for the life of me what class or why. Perhaps I should watch it again as an adult. I love Richard Burton if only because his King Arthur is the one on the album I grew up with and the one my parents still talk about seeing perform the role onstage. I love Richard Harris's Arthur in the movie completely, but I think Richard Burton probably brought a whole different feeling to the role, a darker and more tortured Arthur. 90. THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY (1995) I don't think I have ever sat down and watched this movie in its entirety. I've seen bits and pieces. I think you probably have to see it all the way through to really be able to commit to it, and I think that had two lesser actors played these roles that it would have been laughably horrible. But I know even people who thought the book was a barf fest really loved the movie, so I think I need to give it a chance. 91. WORKING GIRL (1988) Well, despite the fact that Melanie Griffith is unrecognizable today based on how she looked in this movie, I remember liking it. I haven't seen it in forever. I really just love "Let the River Run" so much that I can't help but feel a little affectionate toward whatever movie inspired it. 92. PORGY AND BESS (1959) I've never seen it. 93. DIRTY DANCING (1987) This list is so random that I love it. Sure, I guess this is a passionate movie. I mean, again, another one that came out when I was in the seventh grade. I remember going to the theater at one point and being the only ones in there with my friend and her mom who had her when she was sixteen so she must have been all of, well, my age now at the time. We all went up to the floor space between the first row and the screen at the end and danced around, and that was really fun. I think I was forbidden to see this movie, but, unsurprisingly, it didn't stop me. It also didn't stop my mother from ERASING it when I got it on videotape. Little did she know that I would proceed to see it approximately one thousand times in subsequent years thanks to the USA Network. 94. BODY HEAT (1981)
I've never seen it. 95. LADY AND THE TRAMP (1955) Good Lord. Sure, who doesn't love this movie and who doesn't think of the spaghetti scene when they think of it? 96. BAREFOOT IN THE PARK (1967) No. 97. GREASE (1978) Okay, Grease. I really could write an entire treatise on the role that this movie played in my early years. I had a friend whose family got a Betamax before I could even conceive of such a thing, and they had this on tape, and I played with this girl all the time, and we would just dance around the room singing Grease songs for hours on end. (That and Xanadu, actually.) Along with The Sound of Music, I think it was the first movie we had on videotape when we had our very first VCR. And the lore is that I just wanted to watch it every single day of my life, and apparently, my parents let me, assuming that references to Rizzo's bun in the oven and other sexual stuff would fly right over my head, which they totally did. I don't think I figured out that Rizzo was going through a pregnancy scare until I had been watching the movie daily for about ten years. And I certainly didn't understand what "the chicks will cream" meant or what a "pussy wagon" was supposed to be. We had the records, of course, and I would stare at the group picture of the shot after "Summer Nights" constantly because it looked like John Travolta was holding an apple in his hand but you couldn't quite tell. For some reason, this intrigued me. I mean, what can I even say? I wore jeans and a black leotard constantly and pranced around in one of my mother's old costume wigs (no idea why she had those, now that I think about it) because I wanted to be dressed up like Sandy at the end of the movie. I think one of the first feminist moments I had was realizing how much it sucked that Sandy was the one who had totally change for Danny in the end, and it bothered me so much for a long time that I almost stopped loving the movie entirely. But eventually I decided that I was overthinking it, and my love resumed. Now please allow me to say a thing or two about Grease 2. This came out in second grade, and I firmly believe that it was one of the first things that bonded Shelley and me together for life. Of course, she and her neighbor (my friend with the Betamax) somehow ended up getting actual PINK LADY JACKETS, and I was so jealous that I think I almost had to stop being friends with them, but I worked through that and somehow we all managed to soldier on as friends in Shelley's treehouse which we graffitied with things like "Stephanie + Michael" and "Paulette + Johnny" with paint marker. I think Shelley was more obsessed, if that was even possible, with Grease 2 than I was with Grease. My mother got one look at Paulette shaking her butt at the bowling alley in her gold lamŽ pants and forbade me to ever rent it again (and this was before she got to hear a single line of "Reproduction," which probably would have sent her into cardiac arrest), but luckily, there was no such rule at Shelley's house, and we wore that movie out, along with the record, of course. She had the choreography of Back to School memorized, and sadly, I could never quite keep up, but this movie was basically the foundation upon we built our house of friendship. A new work friend had a crush on a guy named Brad recently, and I immediately launched into, "His loafers were Weejuns, his chinos were black ..." and she continued with, "With a cute little buckle that fastened in back," and we united in chorus, "And my heart shook with fear, as I prayed that I'd hear from Brad .... hear from Brad." And with that, another friendship was born. So, thank you, Grease 2! 98. THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (1939) I've never seen this version, but I have a special place in my heart for the animated feature released in the summer of 1996 because it was the one that came out when I worked at Disney World, so my environment was 100% Hunchback, 100% of the time. It didn't really stand out as one of the best movies ever, but I still love the music a lot and thought that Tom Hulce did a great job in voicing Quasimodo and I totally thought of it when I was in Notre Dame this summer even though that is probably very lame. 99. PILLOW TALK (1959) I've never seen it, but oddly, I was thinking about pillow talk just this morning when removing my splint and wondered how in the hell I'm expected to start making out with someone in the middle of the night with my splint in my mouth. Well, I guess I will just have to cross that bridge when I come to it. 100. JERRY MAGUIRE (1996) My older brother loved this movie so much when it came out that he brought a tape recorder into the theater and would listen to it in his car. He flew up to Michigan to take the girl he had just fallen for to see it on a Saturday night, and then he flew home. I can't really think about this movie without associating it with my brother. I have mixed feelings about it. I know that it's a pretty good movie if I can still watch it in spite of my increasing loathing of Tom Cruise, and before it became so overdone that it was a joke, Cuba Gooding, Jr.'s performance really was so winning and endearing and wonderful, and who didn't love the kid back then, asking Jerry if he knew that dogs and birds could smell fear? It's really weird to think that this was Renee Zellweger's breakout role. Of course, I first knew her as Gina in Empire Records and already loved her for busting out with "Sugar High" at the end of that movie, but even then, I couldn't really reconcile that it was the same person. I remember that Bonnie Hunt appeared on "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" to promote it, and she made a comment that Renee Zellweger was so thin that she couldn't even get wet in the shower unless she ran around, and I thought that was really funny at the time even though she wasn't nearly the skeleton she is now. Wasn't this nominated for Best Picture? I think it was. Oh, I don't know. My friend's Italian husband always says to me, "I have to get in touch with my ANGER," because that woman in Bonnie Hunt's women's group reminds him of me (which makes me happy because it's Winnie Holzman and I love her, or maybe it's Winnie who says the thing about the constant chocolate eating, but either way, I love her) for some reason. There are parts of this movie that I really love. I love Bonnie Hunt. I love when Renee says something like, "Let's not tell all our sad stories yet." I love Rod Tidwell's entire family. I love how it's really about a bunch of fucked up people trying to figure out who in the hell they are and what they want out of life. About this time in ...
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