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Old 04-02-03, 09:35 PM
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What movies really put you in a good mood?
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Old 04-02-03, 09:54 PM
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Old 04-02-03, 10:50 PM
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Dead Poets Society.

I remember coming out of the movie theatre and going "YEAH!! Seize the day!! I'm gonna reach the top and make something out of my life!!"

2 days later I was still working at my stupid job and sitting on my sofa at home channel surfing
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Bring It On was tons-o-fun.

"In cheerleading we throw people into the air, and fat people don't go as high!"
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Old 04-02-03, 11:15 PM
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Good Will Hunting
As Good As It Gets
Amelie
There's Something About Mary
Billy Elliot
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Old 04-02-03, 11:22 PM
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I second Amelie
I also secondBring it On (a guilty pleasure)
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Old 04-02-03, 11:28 PM
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About a Boy
Spiderman
Jerry Maguire
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Old 04-02-03, 11:48 PM
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Another for Bring It On
That Thing You Do! is a personal favorite of mine
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I agree with Bring It On.

Also:
The Graduate
High Fidelity
About a Boy
Grosse Pointe Blank

They don't necessarily have me happy all the way through, but leave me happy at the end.
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Blue Crush
Big Lebowski
Kiki's Delivery Service
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I second Amelie and Blue Crush.
Also, Driving Miss Daisy, Forrest Gump, Rain Man, Groundhog Day and Almost Famous.
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Most Cameron Crowe movies, for me anyway:

Jerry Maguire
Almost Famous
Say Anything
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Most Cameron Crowe movies, for me anyway:

Jerry Maguire
Almost Famous
Say Anything
Agreed. Especially Almost Famous
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The rarely mentioned Creator with Peter O'Toole.
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Any Ernst Lubitsch film will do, specifically my favorites: Trouble in Paradise (1932), Heaven Can Wait (1943), Cluny Brown (1946), and even the black comedy To Be or Not to Be (1942) set in Nazi occupied Poland.

Last year though, I saw Abbas Kiarostami's Where is the Friend's House? (1987) and the film's final shot was just so perfect, encompassing everything that came before without bogged down symbolism. I guess I can say it was effortless. I left the theater in a damned glad mood.

And a few more recent ones:
Read My Lips (2001)
Eureka (2000)
Lakeboat (2001)
Secretary (2002)
What Time is it There? (2001)
Diamond Men (2000)
The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
The American Astronaut (2000)
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Forrest Gump
Field of Dreams
Shawshank Redemption
The Majestic
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8 Mile
Wild Style
Krush Groove
Beat Street
Breakin'



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Anal Destroyers 9

Feels sooooo good
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I second Amelie, and add a semi-guilty pleasure, Field of Dreams.

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Amelie, Shawshank Redemptiom, and Forrest Gump all do it for me.
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American Pie 1 and 2
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