Got a "feel good" movie recommendation?

Billy Elliot

How about Juno? I saw it recently and it was both funny and had a feel good gist to it.

The Princess Bride

@Bluefreedom That was supposed to be a “feel good” movie??

Grandma’s Boy is hysterical. Strange Wilderness, Role Models. All funny movies. The Rocker, if you like Rainn Wilson.

if you want a chick flick type movie, watch House Bunny. I thought it was cute.

Almost Famous…I guess it’s kind of intense, but I love it.

Knocked Up?

WALL-E! or some other Pixar movie.

I just saw I Love You Man in theaters last night and it was pretty hilarious, so if you can find it online already or pull yourself out of bed to go see it, I would recommend it.

Lars and the Real Girl, Juno or Be Kind Rewind are all feel goodish imo.

Little Miss Sunshine

My husband and I watched Made of Honor with Patrick Dempsey and were surprised that it was quite good and funny, because it had gotten such bad reviews.

Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist

@shadling21 That was going to be my suggestion. Great movie. :)

Notting Hill.
Stardust.
The Princess Bride.
When Harry Met Sally.
Casablanca (okay, so it’s my feel-good movie)
Wall-E
Beauty and the Beast
Finding Nemo
Shaun of the Dead
Clue

I put my strongest recommendations in bold.

Singin’ In the Rain is my “go-to” feel good picture. Also, any Gene Kelly movie, or any screwball comedy starring Cary Grant. Or a Preston Sturges-directed screwball comedy. Ooh, or Auntie Mame. “Life’s a banquet and some poor suckers are starving to death!”

I like the old pictures. And Cary Grant, Gene Kelly and Joel McCrea (who was in a number of Sturges movies) are very nice to look at!

The child in me says WALL-E

The Karate Kid
The Shawshank Redemption
Picture Perfect
Keeping the Faith

@Marina – I watched Made of Honor last night. I thought it had some great moments in it (like the potpourri thing). It was enjoyable. Definitely a feel-good movie.

@SuperMouse

Lurve for Shawshank!!!!

Why do they call you Red? Maybe it’s because I’m Irish. . .

Priceless

Little Miss Sunshine? A brilliantly caustic comedy about a young girl’s unlikely journey to a beauty pageant and her dysfunctional family going along with her. Incredibly witty and human and not in that drippy, braindead way that I find hard to stomach but still touches the cackles of my robot heart.

i just watched there will be blood for the first time, AWESOME movie, not so much feel good, but still worth it.

The African Queen or Night at the Opera
It Happened One Night
The Thin Man
The Gods Must be Crazy
Love, Actually
The Full Monty
Waking Ned Devine

Knocked Up.

just reading the question, my first answer would have been je t’aime paris, but then i read that you specifically don’t want to read subtitles, so that’s out of the question.

my next recommendation: house bunny. no deep meaning, no subtitles, light hearted, and i think it’s cute. is that a ridiculous recommendation? maybe. but it’s my new favourite chick flick.

Requiem for a Dream

Kids & Happiness are real gems too. Fun for the whole family!

Role Models- I expected it to be stupid but it was really funny.

@shockvalue, living up to your screen name I see!

okay, real answers… Babe, Amélie, Kiki’s Delivery Service. Finding Neverland. Benny & Joon.

@tiffyandthewall I sat down to House Bunny expecting a vaguely entertaining distraction but thought it was a gem! It’s the completely weird non sequiturs that just pop it out of a conventional, bland story that one would expect. Great suggestion.

Elizabethtown

Napoleon Dynamite

Hairspray 2007 – In my opinion, Edna is John Travoltas best role ever!

Jumping Jack Flash