Idol Chatter’s Comfort Movies

Posted on November 19, 2008 at 8:00 am

Kris Rasmussen’s comfort movie list from Idol Chatter is filled with great choices, including You’ve Got Mail (and don’t miss the two earlier versions, The Shop Around the Corner with Jimmy Stewart and In the Good Old Summertime with Judy Garland) and the great television series Slings & Arrows and Gilmore Girls, both with great characters and rich and witty scripts. I’m also a big fan of Die Hard, though I think the second one is the weakest of the series and much prefer the third one, with Samuel L. Jackson and Jeremy Irons.

And you can never find a better movie for any audience or any occasion than the magnificent Finding Nemo.

Some movies are like a sunny day. Last year, when I was working very hard on a difficult project, I watched a lot of classics. Cary Grant can always cheer me up and I love the old MGM musicals. But the movie I had going pretty much 24/7 was…..

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