What's a wholesome but not tacky film i can watch this week?

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Princess Bride, of course.

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And Pride and Prejudice.

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Have you seen Amélie? Not at all my usual kind of film, but I watched it because I heard good things about it. It’s a very quirky and endearing film and I really enjoyed it.

It’s French though so you’ll need subtitles. Unless you are a French speaker lol

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Pretty general description but a few movies come to mind. I Swear The Holdovers The Peanut butter falcon Little Miss sunshine

Not sure if any of those are exactly what you’re looking for but hope that helps

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I am going to assume you know all the main ones such as The Princess Bride, Stardust, A League of Their Own and various romcoms, When Harry Met Sally, You Got Mail.

Here are some others that may have what you are looking for.

  • Flow. It is about a cat leading a group of animals to safety during a flood.
  • Good Night Oppy. It is the story of the Mars Lunar Landers and the amazing way they were used. It is incredibly inspiring, as is so much that NASA does.
  • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On: It is a stop motion movie about a shell and damn it is so good.
  • The Florida Project. This is an odd one, but it does have a lot of tackiness too it, but not in an overt way.
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Mate I would never have picked Good Night Oppy but I’m watching it now and really enjoying it! Thanks so much

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It is so excellent! Glad you are enjoying it!

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Seconding Marcel the Shell with Shoes on!

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Secondhand lions.

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I fucking love that movie, and a few years later I realized the kid is Sora in Kingdom Hearts!

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It’s probably the most “feel-good movie” I can think of

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  • Napoleon Dynamite
  • Brassed Off
  • October Sky
  • Fighting With My Family
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“Fighting With My Family” is so ridiculously good.

The most violent Hallmark movie ever.

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Normally I’m a bit of a movie snob and would never have picked up s title called Napoleon Dynamite but I’m glad I was convinced, one of my favourite movies!

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Moonrise Kingdom is always worth a (re)watch.

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Probably whole Wes Anderson filmography up until he went off the rails with the formula (Grand Budapest Hotel and later) would fit.

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Wrong. It went to shit starting with Isle of the Dogs. GBH was peak

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Grand Budapest Hotel is a very good movie (and so is Isle of Dogs) but it’s around that time when Wes Anderson became too much style over substance imo and OP wanted to avoid „tacky” which I would say those are.

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Beetlejuice

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I rewatched it for the first time since childhood with my partner and we were both shocked at how little screen time and lines a Beetlejuice had compared to our memories of the movie! Still one of my favorites, though. Mega holds up. …also we were on acid.

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NICE FUCKIN’ MODEL! …honk honk!

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yeah it’s always risky watching beloved childhood movies. With you be flooded with nostalgia or ruin a special memory?
Beetlejuice was a family classic for me growing up… we only had a few VHS’s and that was one so we rewatched it 1,000,000 times.

Bettlejuice 2 sucked but it did manage to milk a couple drops out of my nostalgia gland.

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I really enjoyed this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_(2014_film)

Might be a little tacky, but its literal history and AFAIK they did a good job with it.

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As a rainbow person I approve

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The hunt for the wilder people - Taika Waititi directed Sam Neill and the kid from Deadpool 2, fun and heartwarming

Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams adapted book, towels and bypasses

The blues brothers - a little old but I think it’s pretty good, plenty of good music

Duck soup - Marx brothers comedy that mostly hold up, very old so a couple things mentioned that were cultural references at the time are no longer known but that’s pretty rare overall

Some other worth mentioning: animated Robin hood, o brother where art thou, free solo

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The Hunt for the Wilderpeople…

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Happy Birthday Ricky Baker randomly plays in my head ALL THE TIME and I’ve only seen the movie once and I was blasted out of my mind on sass and remember NOTHING ELSE about the movie

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I recently watched Garden State for the first time and quite liked it.

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The Way Way Back.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1727388/

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@LadyButterfly you’ll enjoy this one.

Edit: #LadyButterfly

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That’s a solid cast in that movie. I’ll add it to my list.

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Thanks. Haven’t seen this before so will watch it tonight.

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That looks lovely thanks

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I watched it today with my kids and it was great :)

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is chef considered tacky? thats an ultimate feel good movie

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Old gold.

“Sullivan’s Travels.”

Big shot Hollywood boy genius director decides he’s going to make a movie about the poor and downtrodden. His boss points out that the director grew up well off and has been making $10,000 a week since he graduated college.

So he decides to hit the road and see what poverty is really like…

Classic Hollywood screwball comedy

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The foundation of the Coen brothers career ❤️

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The old Alan Rickman movie Truly madly deeply is great. Definitely not tacky. Probably wholesome? I definitely felt more happy than sad when credits rolled, and better for having watched it.

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If you are in a “what is love / would anyone love me / would I love anyone” type of period, I recommend you watch Before Sunrise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_Sunrise

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I couldn’t believe this movie was downloaded when I set Radarr to download IMDb top250. The premise of the movie is that two relatively wealthy people smell each others farts for an hour and a half.

Character 1: I have this incredibly popular worldview which makes me sound cool.

Character 2: I can’t believe it! I’m also a very smart free thinker! I thought I was the only one :O

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Wow, the other comments are amazing.

My partner and I love this genre in particular and y’all took most of my answers!

Some that I did not see mentioned yet:

  • Paddington / Paddington 2: so so so so good. The second might be better than the first

  • Rushmore: Wes Anderson before he was a meme. A bit crass but quite fun.

  • Ponyo: Myazaki movie, lovely animation, brings us to tears and is suitable for many moods

  • Polyester: Devine-starred comedy that is over the top, full of love, and so funny

  • Lars and the Real Girl: Ryan Gosling is a hermit and falls in love with a sex doll. The entire small town rallies together to try and reintegrate him into society.

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“Bicentennial Man” with Robin Williams and Sam Neill. It’s about a robot who gains consciousness.

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Stranger than fiction.

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Wonder Boys is one of my all time favourites

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If you get Australian humour, The Castle is fantastic. Very wholesome and very funny, although I have known non-Australians to watch it and have most of it go over their head.

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If you want to watch a film about “gays and coal miners” I’d recommend Pride

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Second this one, love that movie.

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Local Hero (1983) would definitely fit the bill. It’s a little quirky but I wouldn’t call it tacky at all.

“An American oil company has plans for a new refinery and sends someone to Scotland to buy up an entire village, but things don’t go as expected.”

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Not sure what you consider tacky, but I thought Lady in the Water fit that description.

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My neighbor totoro

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