Movie recomendations

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Comment by Kayleigh on November 26, 2011 at 7:03pm

Make sure we are starting discussions vs. Comments when requesting movie genre recommendations :-) thanks - Kayleigh

Comment by Kayleigh on November 26, 2011 at 4:46pm

Carl, thank you for your recomendations and your complements! -kayleigh

Comment by Carl on November 26, 2011 at 11:22am

I would like to thank you for creating this group and another thank you for allowing me be a part of it.  Unfortunately I am not much onto romantic comedies but I have seen a few  and I would like to recommend these.  Being that your selection is mostly present day American I would like to go back to yesteryear (the classics) and then later across the "pond" to recommend a few foreign.

I have always been a diehard fan of Walter Brennan, William Powell, among others and almost every movie they are in, it's definitely comedy or if it's real drama I am sure their presence will provide some comedic moments,  In "Banjo on my Knee" (1936) we have a bridegroom who runs away from his own wedding, thinking he has killed one of his guests.  His father (Walter Brennan) and his new bride finds him, tells him everything is OK, and then tries and get him back into the fold.  Also in 1936 we have "My Man Godfrey."  Godfrey (Powell) is a derelict who was hired by a rich socialite to become their butler.  Soon the socilite falls in love with this derelict-turned-butler.  In those days such a relationship between a servant and an employer usually gets frowned upon.  Then decades later we have Patty Duke in "Billie" (1965) a 16-yr old tomboy enjoys beating the boys in THEIR sports.  The problem here is her father.  Opposing women's rights and running for mayor may soon prove difficult if you have a tomboy for a daughter.

Across the "pond" its "Castaway on the Moon" (2009 S Korea) about a man who attempted suicide by jumping off a bridge; it failed and is washed up on a deserted island instead.  Across the water in a high-rise lives a reclusive woman who does nothing but takes pictures of the moon.  One day she looks out at this island some distance away and sees this man, thinking it is her alien friend that she had been taking pictures of coming down from the moon to visit her.  In "Heartbreaker" (2010 France) a brother and sister jointly owns this business involving human relationships.  They are hired by a rich man who wants them to stop his daughter from marrying this English millionaire.  The problem here-- they are given only a week to do it.  Speaking of stopped marriages and the best for last is "Marriage Italian Style" (1964 Italy) about a man having an affair with a 17-yr old who becomes a prostitute and then his mistrees who without his knowledge secretly bore three children.  Later when the mistress learns about him going to marry, she stops it by pretending she is "dying" and while "dying" she tells the man about these children and that he is the father of one of them.  Talk about a sticky situation.

 

These are a few that I am recommending.  I am sure there are plenty more out there, but this is a start.