Movies That Make You Smile

[happyfilmluvguy]

Movies bring many emotions and facial expression to us. We sometimes cry, we sometimes are angry, we sometimes are feeling a whole array of emotion. But what movie just makes you smile?

 

[ShooShooBaby]

here's a few...

harold and maude
that certain age (with deanna durbin and all that 1930s sportswear, who wouldn't smile?)
the parent trap
the bachelor and the bobbysoxer
moon over miami

 

[Diamondback]

US Marshals. Gerard gets his man, fugitive gets his name cleared and gets the girl, Robert Downey Jr.'s character gets blown away. Other than the hideous torture of a perfectly good Boeing 727 airliner, what's not to smile about? (Well, smirk, which is the best I can manage.)

 

[jake_fink]

Palm Beach Story.

Especially when the Weenie King is on screen:

 

[Mike1939]

Love Crazy (1941)
You Can't Take It With You (1938)
Libeled Lady (1936)
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
Any of the Andy Hardy movies (1937-1946)

 

[vonwotan]

You Can't Take It With You is definitely up there. Cabin in The Sky and Ziegfeld Folies. Porgie and Bess always makes me smile, whether its the movie, the UK or Lincoln Center broadcasts, or just the recordings.

 

[Fleagirl]

In no particular order:

Harvey
The Major and the Minor
My Favorite Wife
Holiday Inn
The Lady Eve

 

[jazzzbaby]

Doris Day & Audrey Hepburn Movies
Any of the "Thin Man" movies
"Singin In the Rain"
"There's No Business Like Show Business"
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"

 

[RetroModelSari]

"Big Fish"
"How to marry a millionaire"
"The Pink Panther" - all of them
"The fearless Vampire Killers"

 

[Chanfan]

Mr. North.

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

Tucker is the movie that first came to mind when I read this thread. I was beaming for hours afterward when I first saw this movie.

 

[WH1]

Oceans Eleven, the original not that disaster with George Clooney and the Blah pack. I love watching Dean Martin, he is so smooth and steals every scene he is in. Particular favorite is the scene when Peter Lawford calls his mother for money. Also the suits are amazing. One of these days I am going to have Deans grey suit he wears in his first scenes and Cesar Romeros double breasted suit in his first scenes recreated. Besides that movie is fun not making any great statements or anything and the ending is one of the all time greats.:cool2:

 

[RetroModelSari]

Oceans Eleven, the original not that disaster with George Clooney and the Blah pack. I love watching Dean Martin, he is so smooth and steals every scene he is in. Particular favorite is the scene when Peter Lawford calls his mother for money. Also the suits are amazing. One of these days I am going to have Deans grey suit he wears in his first scenes and Cesar Romeros double breasted suit in his first scenes recreated. Besides that movie is fun not making any great statements or anything and the ending is one of the all time greats.:cool2:

Yeah!!! I love the ending! After all this work and tricks they end up with nothing. Poor guys.

 

[WH1]

The other movie I always enjoy is Gross Pointe Blank. Some of the best dialogue intelligent and satirical always makes me laugh out loud, especially the stuff between John Cusack and Alan Arkin.

 

[LadyStardust]

Top Hat
Chocolat
Ever After
Love Crazy
I Love You Again
Bachelor Mother
Sunrise (It makes me cry more than any other movie, I'm a goner from about 10 minutes onwards, but it's the most wonderful, sweetest happy ending, and that makes me smile. )
Ninotchka

 

[Absinthe_1900]

W.C. Fields "It's A Gift".

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Smiles galore from the three funniest films to come out of the '80s: REPO MAN, RE-ANIMATOR, and SOMETHING WILD.



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[BillTyre]

Mr. Smith

Mr. Smith goes to Washington. Just that kind of hope that something could actually work out... gets me every time.

 

[Lady Day]

Three that come to mind:

Twelfth Night (1996)

The Wedding Singer (1999)

Stewart Saves His Family (1995)

I watch these often.


LD

 

[Miss Neecerie]

Stewart Saves His Family (1995)

Stewart Saves His Family is great! Even funnier if you have ever had a family member go through AA....My mom and I watch it and laugh...and laugh.