Conversations: Favorite Movies
What Movie(s) have you seen multiple times? What are your favorites?
We polled our contributors, and these were the results. It resulted in a lively conversation and folks chiming in to celebrate a particular choice film. What we’ve learned? Our ladies love movies! Fall and winter seem to be a great time to cuddle up with a favorite old flick and settle into the few moments of downtime our busy contributors can steal away. Maybe these conversations will inspire you to revisit an old favorite.
Erin Ellison There are a few that I watch almost every time they are on or if I am looking for something easy to watch: Men in Black, O Brother Where Art Though, Funny Face, The Tender Trap, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince, Sunset Boulevard, The Women (1939)...
Jena Dunham Funny Face, lord yes!
Meredith Stone The Bird Cage, Steel Magnolias, Grease, Chicago, Failure to Launch, Grownups, Bridesmaids, Moulin Rouge, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Clueless, Kindergarten Cop.
Jena Dunham I FREAKIN' LOVE Kindergarten Cop.
Erin Ellison The Bird Cage! I love that movie so much — Robin Williams’ choreographer reference moment is a favorite moment on film. Gentleman Prefer Blondes viewing always ramps up the sequins in my life!
April Basler Grease, Dirty Dancing, The Breakfast Club, The Hangover, Bridesmaids, Stepmom, Napolian Dynomite, Office Space, The Wizard of Oz, 27 Dresses, The Notebook, Forrest Gump, Back to the Future Trilogy, Titanic, The Matrix...mine seem to be all over the place, but these are the movies I have watched the most times in my life (not necessarily ones I would watch now)
Erin Ellison Mine are all over the place too! I think that’s part of the fun!
Alicia Jones YES to Office Space and Titanic!
Jena Dunham I had somehow managed to go through a Southern life having never seen Forrest Gump until about 3 years ago, and now I've easily watched it 10 times since.
Erin Ellison I saw it the weekend it opened. My sister and I met at a theater by Gwinnett mall that was in between us — to just laugh and cry
Sally Watts Four Weddings and a Funeral, Stealing Beauty, Before Sunrise (any of the three movies, really), Daddy’s Home, The Big Chill, The Best Man, Patton. And any of the 80’s brat pack type movies. I’ve been meaning to watch St. Elmo’s Fire, for nostalgia’s sake. I doubt it’s held up that well. 😄
Jena Dunham Four Weddings and a Funeral - classic floppy-haired Hugh Grant days.
Erin Ellison St. Elmo's fire doesn’t hold up, sadly. The Breakfast Club does ok.
Marielle Stair National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Elf, A Christmas Story, Home Alone, It's a Wonderful Life, The Holiday, Love Actually, Christmas with the Kranks, Planes Trains and Automobiles, The Family Stone, The Fifth Element, Groundhog Day, One Magic Christmas, Last of the Mohicans, A River Runs Through It, Legends of the Falls, The Man in the Moon, Joe Black.
Sally Watts I need to watch The Family Stone again soon!
Ginger Miller I second the family stone! I would add In Her Shoes.
Jena Dunham You have some great ones. Family Stone and A River Runs Through it - watched both on repeat.
Erin Ellison You love a holiday movie — love that!
Ginger Miller It’s a wonderful life, Steel Magnolias, Young Frankenstein, Center Stage, The American President, The Music Man, and Gone with the Wind. There are so many more, but I’m having a serious brain poop right now
Sally Watts Yes, The American President! One of my faves. It’s just so iconic and elegant and cute.
Jena Dunham The Music Man! Shipoopi!
Alicia Jones Gone With the Wind, Grease, When Harry Met Sally and most 80s brat pack/John Hughes movies, Princess Bride, Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Molly’s Game, Bridesmaids, Trainwreck, Wine Country, It’s A Wonderful Life
Jena Dunham When Harry Met Sally... I love a movie with so many seasons highlighted like that.
Erin Ellison The Princess Bride. So much love for that movie
Jena Dunham The Long Long Trailer, Philadelphia Story, The Patriot, Driving Miss Daisy, The Help, You've Got Mail, Pete's Dragon, A River Runs Through It, Little Women (1994), Easter Parade, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Out of Africa, Mame, Sister Act, Coal Miner's Daughter, North Avenue Irregulars.
Ginger Miller And not let us forget the happiest millionaire!
Erin Ellison I’m still going to vote High Society over The Philadelphia Story, but You’ve Got Mail, The Help, Easter Parade also make my list. I adore Out of Africa but I have to plan for that level of emotion
Ginger Miller Why can’t they peacefully coexist? Both are a classic – I adore the library scene where Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra sang together in High Society.
Erin Ellison oh they do! I just have a preference if I was forced to choose
Elizabeth Austin The Devil Wears Prada. Every single time it’s on. 👠
Angela Howerter My Fair Lady and any Audrey Hepburn movie, Urban Cowboy, Life is Beautiful, Schindler’s List, Django Unchained, Saving Private Ryan, Weird Science, The Goonies, Office Space, Hotel Rwanda, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Notebook, The Legend of Billie Jean, Taken.
Jeanie Dizon Sabrina, all the Star Wars, Spaceballs, While You Were Sleeping, basically anything with Bill Pullman in it, The Princess Bride, Clueless, Emma, every version of Pride & Prejudice, every John Hughes movie, all the Indiana Jones, Memento & Inception but mainly to reassemble my brain, all the Matrices… Oh and now that I have a kid, every Disney movie and its live-action version, and of course Harry Potter. I could recite all of Frozen in my sleep.
Molly McCafferty Pride & Prejudice and When Harry Met Sally