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What is your favorite family movie, by that I mean one that depicts family values, especially good parenting and parent-child relationships, good marriages in the face of challenge and difficulty. I realize this list will be long, so try not to be repetitious.
All time favorite-every version of Little Women, especially the Winona Ryder version.

Does anyone out there as old as me remember a movie with Rosalind Russell, and I think Jack Carter, about a mother with several small children, who survived a polio epidemic. The father left the family due to the problems, and Jack Carter was the new love interest.
 
*I Remember Mama *both the movie and the TV series that ran in the 50s.
 
Return to Me!

Carroll O’coners last movie… also has bonnie hunt, jim bilushi, robery logia… among others… only movie in my life that i have watched more times than i can remember…

you’ll love it 👍
 
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Return to Me!

Carroll O’coners last movie… also has bonnie hunt, jim bilushi, robery logia… among others… only movie in my life that i have watched more times than i can remember…

you’ll love it 👍
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That is my all-time favorite movie! It such a nice movie. 🙂 🙂 🙂

I actually forgot about it for a while, thanks for reminding me.
 
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That is my all-time favorite movie! It such a nice movie. 🙂 🙂 🙂

I actually forgot about it for a while, thanks for reminding me.
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it was on tv last night… but it was cut to pieces to make room for commercials and to fit the time slot… watch the tape or DVD, get the uncut version…

my all time favorite pick… 👍 👍 👍
 
Driving Miss Daisy
Wonderful on so many levels. I cry every time I watch it! :yup:
 
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Hilarious movie…but family movie?
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Yes, and one that beats the heck out of gooshy stuff like “It’s a Wonderful Life” or that horrible movie I can’t remember the name of they showed us in grade school where the parents die and the kids try to raise themselves and the last scene is the oldest boy dropping his brothers and sisters off at people’s homes before trudging up the hill in the snow to the orphanage.

Yuck.

Raising Arizona’'s about two deeply flawed people struggling with what it means to be married and what it means to be parents and ultimately, after a series of horrendous mistakes, making a family.

I always laugh at the beginning and cry at the end, that dream sequence where two old people (maybe it’s them) are waiting for their grandchildren to visit:

And it seemed real… it seemed like us… it seemed like our home. If not Arizona, then a land not too far away, where all parents are strong and wise and capable, and all children are happy and beloved.

I don’t know. Maybe it was Utah.

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I don’t think it gets a whole lot more family than that.
 
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I Remember Mama both the movie and the TV series that ran in the 50s.
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I like the movie Rudy…

I had a copy of the movie ‘I remember Mama’ think I gave it to prison :hmmm:
 
cheaper by the dozen (clifton webb & myrna loy NOT steve martin)
 
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Yes, and one that beats the heck out of gooshy stuff like “It’s a Wonderful Life”
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I Love “It’s A Wonderful Life”. That is one of the best movies ever made. They don’t write screenplays like that anymore. Back then, you had to be witty and clever to write a decent movie. They were funny without being mean and vulgar. That took real talent. Not that stuff they so often put out today-when they’re only funny when they’re making fun of someone or swearing every-other-word.

Scout :tiphat:
 
Some of my favorite DVDs,

read reviews at www.imdb.com to see if you would like them.
Bend it like Beckham

Braveheart

Breaker Morant

Chariots of Fire

Dances With Wolves

Dish, The

Gallipoli

Groundhog Day

Gunga Din

Hunt for Red October

Lawrence of Arabia

Life Is Beautiful

Lorenzo’s Oil

Man for All Seasons, A

Man from Snowy River, The

Master & Commander

Moby Dick

Music Man, The

My Family

Old Yeller

Phar Lap

Quiet Man, The

Schindler’s List

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Secondhand Lions

Secret of Roan Inish, The

Shadowlands

Sleepless in Seattle

Smoke Signals

Whale Rider

Welcome to Sarajevo

We Were Soldiers

Walk in the Clouds, A

Truman Show

Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The

Strictly Ballroom

Station Agent, the

Spartacus
 
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What is your favorite family movie, by that I mean one that depicts family values, especially good parenting and parent-child relationships, good marriages in the face of challenge and difficulty.
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An underrated movie that depicts love overcoming obstacles, and the completeness of having a family, is Corrina, Corrina. It’s about a newly widowded father, his devestated small daughter, and the housekeeper who comes into their lives. The father and daughter are Jewish and the housekeeper is Christian, although religion is a minor part of the movie. Also, the father (Ray Liotta) and daughter are white and the housekeeper (Whoopi Goldberg) is black, so they have to overcome some social obstacles.

I just really like this movie and could relate to the pain and the hope in it.
 
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Buford:
Some of my favorite DVDs,

read reviews at www.imdb.com to see if you would like them.
Bend it like Beckham

Braveheart

Breaker Morant

Chariots of Fire

Dances With Wolves

Dish, The

Gallipoli

Groundhog Day

Gunga Din

Hunt for Red October

Lawrence of Arabia

Life Is Beautiful

Lorenzo’s Oil

Man for All Seasons, A

Man from Snowy River, The

Master & Commander

Moby Dick

Music Man, The

My Family

Old Yeller

Phar Lap

Quiet Man, The

Schindler’s List

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Secondhand Lions

Secret of Roan Inish, The

Shadowlands

Sleepless in Seattle

Smoke Signals

Whale Rider

Welcome to Sarajevo

We Were Soldiers

Walk in the Clouds, A

Truman Show

Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The

Strictly Ballroom

Station Agent, the

Spartacus
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I haven’t seen all the movies on your list, Buford, but I would offer some caution on Schindler’s List, Lawrence of Arabia, We Were Soldiers, as they deal in adult themes and include some graphic scenes of violence.
 
Life is Beautiful (La Vita e Bella) I think it won an academy award in 1998 and if it didn’t it should have. I think it was in Italian with English subtitles. It is a wonderful story of hope during the holocaust. Marvelous!
 
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