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(68,400 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)Thank you
Aristus
(68,400 posts)Wonderful film...
cwydro
(51,308 posts)I just know its a film I will like.
Wish my mom was around to watch it with me.
Siwsan
(27,300 posts)I love Bill Forsyth's take on life. His humor and slightly quirky style reminds me of Richard Lester.
Aristus
(68,400 posts)It's so life-affirming.
I love the scene where Mac and Rev. MacMurdo are watching the RAF practice bomb runs.
MacMurdo says: "As long as they are bombing the beach, they can't be bombing anywhere else. It's kind of comforting."
Siwsan
(27,300 posts)And everyone goes 'sheepish'.
A suggested film that I love is called 'Very Annie Mary' with Rachel Griffiths, Jonathan Pryce, Ioan Gryffudd and Matthew Rhys. It is a delightful Welsh film, full of wonderful humor, pathos, and (of course) singing. And it is a rare Welsh themed film, in that the actors are actually Welsh! The ending is, for me, pure delight. This is the IMDB synopsis:
When Annie Mary was 16, she was offered a scholarship to sing in Milan, but was never allowed to go because her mother was dying. Now Annie Mary is 33 and no longer sings. She lives under the shadow of her chapel-strict father, known to all as The Voice of the Valleys, who sees himself as a budding Pavarotti. She wants to break free, but her father has a stroke and demands even more of her. When she finally rebels, the whole village becomes involved in a competition to raise money and get Annie's terminally ill best friend, 16-year-old, Bethan Bevan to Disneyland. Unfortunately Annie loses all the money they win betting on horses! She is now the most unpopular person in the village until she is asked to sing again... and Annie Mary realises that she can, at last, move on.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)The opposite of rain.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Great idea, thank you.
Eliot Rosewater
(32,537 posts)Dont laugh, or do when you see it.
It is actually considered to be a very good movie.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/abbott_and_costello/
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Thank you!
PJMcK
(22,898 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)Good idea.
PJMcK
(22,898 posts)Joan Crawford!
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Thanks.
Irish_Dem
(57,920 posts)If you like British drama like I do.
Thanks!
Irish_Dem
(57,920 posts)Since you like British made film and TV.
JustAnotherGen
(33,650 posts)Miracle In the Rain
Ghost and Mrs Muir
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Havent thought of that in years...
JustAnotherGen
(33,650 posts)She looked like my mom's mother only with blue instead of very dark eyes. No joking.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Kind of a tragic life.
But it made me buy a Monkey Puzzle tree!
Now...where to plant it...
Great movie...watched it twice. Reckon Ill have to name this tree Gen lol.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Thank you. Made my day.
Chipper Chat
(10,037 posts)What's Eating Gilbert Grape.
Friendly Persuasion.
Wind Across the Everglades
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Spent many years camping there. Will check it out.
Chipper Chat
(10,037 posts)About poaching in early 1900s. Christopher plummer and Burl Ives star. Lots of snakes & critters of course.
Action_Patrol
(845 posts)world wide wally
(21,831 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)Thanks for the suggestion.
louis-t
(23,727 posts)Wayne Knight, John Cleese, Seth Green, Jon Lovitz, Cuba Gooding Jr, Kathy Bates and Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) ...funny stuff. Watched it in 2001 in Orlando on a rainy Sunday and had to leave the room several times because I was laughing so hard.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Thank you. Gonna check it out.
I actually live five miles from where the Color Purple was filmed.