After seeing Little Miss Sunshine and Knocked Up, I think I've discovered that feel good comedies are one of my favorite types of movie. Can anyone recommend some other goodies of this kind?

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Some of my picks:

The Devil Wears Prada
The Emperor's New Clothes (Ian Holm)
Benny and Joon
The Dish
Cool Runnings
Secondhand Lions
Smoke Signals
Wide Awake
With Honors

You need to check out some of Albert Brooks films. He make good comedies.

Defending Your Life
Lost in America
Modern Romance
Mother

Do Trading Places and Coming to America count?

Also, check out Brewster's Millions. So many...worthwhile charities!!!

nothing gives me that warm and fuzzy goodness like the end of Planes, Trains and Automobiles...

Requiem for a Dream

Excellent call with M. Night Shyamalan's Wide Awake. It's a rarely talked about gem that will make you look at Shyamalan in a completely different light.

Edit:

I hope you weren't referring to the insomnia doc.

Definitely the Shyamalan film. I haven't seen the insomnia documentary, but I am not sure how funny insomnia can be. :-). Actually Wide Awake may be more drama than comedy, but it has its humor too. I really like this movie and am glad to see there are others who liked it as well.

Almost Famous always does it for me.

I might be nuts, but a "feel good" film that I love and every one else seems to hate is "Joe Versus the Volcano." I'm a cynical person opposed to optimism, as a rule, but watching that movie - which is very funny too, by the way - is like a jolt of seratonin. If you can find it really cheap somewhere, give it a shot.

Billy Elliot
Real Genius
Skin Deep
True Romance

I thought The Full Monty was a good "feel good" movie.

If you can stomach animation in this category, then give My Neighbor Totoro a spin. It's a very solid go-to for pleasant cinematic vibes.

Thanks everyone for your recommendations.

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Here's a few more that wife enjoys quite a bit(and so do I):
About a Boy
Chocolat
Waking Ned Devine
Bridget Jones's Diary and its sequel

Loved "Waking Ned Devine" !

Love, Actually
Midnight Run
Amelie
Big
The Goonies
S1m0ne
Time bandits
Catch Me If You CAn
Garden State


These make me feel good at least.

I just watched Mother Ghost, and loved it. It is about a man working through the death of his mother, which doesn't sound "feel good" but it is. While not a comedy there is plenty of humor too.

Psycho & the Friday the 13th movies are feel good movies too me but If your looking for what most people would define as feel good movies I would say...

Men with Brooms starring Paul Gross (Due south), Molly Parker & the ever loveable Canadian Leslie Neilsen.

Babe

I would say Midnight Run as well but I don't know If it would be considered a "Feel good" movie or just a fun movie.

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