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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI am for happy movies.So what is the happiest movie you ever have seen ..please name them..& share
I need to think..Maybe.."Taming of the Shrew.." Wonderful fun, Taylor & Burton are great..
I will add others as I think about it. (If you don't know it, above is a comedy from a well known author)
One of my favorites...: Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 ..directed by Frank Capra.
................................. Around the World in 80 Days, 1959
................................. Some Like it Hot, Jack Lemon, Tony Curtis, & Marilyn Monroe (also Joe E. Brown) 1959
................................. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World ..Spencer Tracey., and a host of others..
................................. Animated...The Iron Giant.
................................. Favorite musical ... Singin' in the Rain, Gene Kelly, Donald O Connor, Debbie Renolds
elleng
(130,895 posts)NBachers
(17,108 posts)global1
(25,243 posts)Over the holiday season I got to watching the Hallmark Channel instead of watching the depressing news shows.
The stories are pretty much have all similar themes. It seems like they have a template that they use to put these movies together. Pretty much cookie cutter.
But if you a bordering on being demoralized by our news these days or depressed because of Covid - these movies can pick you up out of that funk.
cbabe
(3,541 posts)Stuart G
(38,421 posts)cbabe
(3,541 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I LOVE Dirty Rotten Scoundrels!
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Are you a big Michael Caine fan also?
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)And I especially loved him in that film! I am kind of an Anglophile, so I love most British actors and films (although I don't think that was a Brit film).
Ponietz
(2,968 posts)Ponietz
(2,968 posts)We are fortunate to have these works of art from the genius Miyazaki. The films lift me up and I share in the worldview they depict characters with character.
I just watched two newer ones made after his retirement
When Marnie Was There and Hedwig and the Witch and highly recommend them. Hedwig is as great a character as Chihiro in Spirited Away.
Upthevibe
(8,043 posts)I'm down for the night so I'm half asleep but I'll post my happy movies when I'm coherent.
I have "Arsenic and Old Lace" on my DVR and it's one of the three movies I fall asleep to almost every night. IMHO, it's a brilliant film. The casting is perfection.....one of my favorite movies of all time.
Stuart G
(38,421 posts)It is a "cartoon" staring my hero ....Wilie E. Coyote..who never gives up...
........................................................the other star is a fast critter called ..The Road Runner
happybird
(4,606 posts)Dont know if its the happiest movie Ive ever seen, but was the first that came to mind.
Cartoonist
(7,316 posts)A few good songs too.
Twoflower
(1,020 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,655 posts)TygrBright
(20,759 posts)My favorite movie!
Bayard
(22,063 posts)Galaxy Quest
The Princess Bride
Ferris Bueller
Babe
Laffy Kat
(16,377 posts)I laughed until I cried.
Trueblue1968
(17,217 posts)AND I LOVE THIS SONG ...... Stephen Bishop - It Might Be You (Tootsie) (1982)
Rhiannon12866
(205,320 posts)I actually saw it performed live somewhere with my parents as a little kid - starring Van Johnson as Professor Harold Hill. My cousin and I had the record so we knew all the songs - and we both thought Shirley Jones was so beautiful! I still can't help watching whenever it's on.
TygrBright
(20,759 posts)You just KNOW they sweated the rehearsals to get all those intricate call-and-response and interwoven melody numbers down.
"CASH for the merchandise, CASH for the buttonhooks"
"And when the man dances, certainly boys, what else? The piper pays him!"
So many wonderful numbers.
Thanks for bringing it up, I'm gonna go dig out the DVD and treat myself.
happily,
Bright
Ziggysmom
(3,407 posts)jrandom421
(1,003 posts)Marty-1955
It was the picture that launched Ernest Borgnine to fame. if a poor schlub like Marty could find a girl that liked him. maybe there was some hope for me. Married for 25 years now, I'm gkad I was inspired to stay open to the possiblity,
electric_blue68
(14,891 posts)🤔
I think we'd gone through something medically scary in our family...
I went to see it, and it was so cathartic I saw it 2 more times.
I have the DVD, too.
Sooo funny and clever. The visuals are a delight, all ngv with one major jaw dropping scene!
electric_blue68
(14,891 posts)I was in a crisis, and watching it on DVD made me pretty much forget my situation I was so absorbed, and laughing SO much!
DFW
(54,370 posts)"Fame" tops my list for feel-good films. Not EVERYTHING ends well, but most of it does and the sheer joy of making music makes it burst with positive energy.
A friend of mine had a minor/major role in The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming, so it remains a sentimental favorite. Unlike Alan Arkin, who had to learn every syllable of his lines, as he spoke no Russian, my friend did speak it, even had participated in the recording of albums of Russian folk songs (once with the legendary Sasha Polinoff!).
Talitha
(6,585 posts)Also, We Bought a Zoo.
Both make me smile.
NNadir
(33,516 posts)Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn.
rurallib
(62,411 posts)Or just about any Mel Brooks movie
Marthe48
(16,949 posts)Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn If you like Arsenic and Old Lace, you'll love this one
Might be hard to find, but another one is You Can't Take It With You The original movie 1938 (Lionel Barrymore, Jimmy Stewart and Jean Arthur) is wonderful but there was a taped live performance starring Jason Robards that was hilarious.
yellowdogintexas
(22,252 posts)It was wonderful. Coleen Dewhurst was hysterical, hamming it up as the Grand Duchess Olga Tatiana.
One of my favorite plays; I have seen it 3 times live.
Marthe48
(16,949 posts)I got it for him years ago. I probably still have it, but where? I should look around and find it
nolabear
(41,960 posts)Stuart G
(38,421 posts)yardwork
(61,599 posts)avebury
(10,952 posts)That Touch of Mink - Doris Day and Cary Grant
Just about any Doris Day and Rock Hudson or Hepburn & TrAcy movies
Original Yours Mine and Ours movie with Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda
Auntie Mame with Rosalind Russell
The original Cheaper by the Dozen
The Bachelor and the Bobby Boxer with Myrna Loy and Cary Grant
The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir
Father Goose with Ellie Caron and Cary Grant
Operation Petticoat with Cary Grant Tony Curtis etc
Gigi
Keeping Up With the Jonses
Both Mamma Mia movies
Monster-in-Law with Jennifer Lopez taking on Jane Fonda
The Pentagon Wars is pretty funny as is Down Peridcope, both with Kelsey Grammar
Sitting Pretty with Clifton Webb
yellowdogintexas
(22,252 posts)both movies make me happy.
Tracer
(2,769 posts)Such a wonderful movie. Happy, sad, comical, upbeat. Just great.
Glorfindel
(9,729 posts)My Fair Lady (the Ascot Gavotte may be my favorite scene of all time)
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
kairos12
(12,859 posts)radicalleft
(478 posts)Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men...takes us to our happy place!
tanyev
(42,553 posts)wnylib
(21,447 posts)tragic - West Side Story and Into the Woods.
But, for happy movies, I like:
It's Complicated (Mery Streep, Alex Baldwin, Steve Martin)
Meet the Fockers (Ben Stiller, Barbara Streisand, Dustin Hoffman)
Matilda
The Indiana Jones films
One of the funniest films, IMO, is Steel Magnolias. It has a couple really tragic scenes guaranteed to make you cry, but humor helps the characters through the sadness, so that it ends on an upbeat tone. It's a treasure trove of some of the funniest comedy lines I have ever heard. Great cast, too - Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine,
wnylib
(21,447 posts)tragic - West Side Story and Into the Woods.
But, for happy movies, I like:
It's Complicated (Mery Streep, Alex Baldwin, Steve Martin)
Meet the Fockers (Ben Stiller, Barbara Streisand, Dustin Hoffman)
Matilda
The Indiana Jones films
One of the funniest films, IMO, is Steel Magnolias. It has a couple really tragic scenes guaranteed to make you cry, but humor helps the characters through the sadness, so that it ends on an upbeat tone. It's a treasure trove of some of the funniest comedy lines I have ever heard. Great cast, too - Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Sally Fields, Julia Roberts, Olympia Dukakis. Daryl Hannah, Sam Shepard, and Tom Skerritt.