I sobbed at the end of West Side Story. Romeo and Juliet too. I cry very easy when watching movies.

Clay Aiken said he liked Whale Rider.

FC, here is Roger Ebert's review. It gives a good summary of the movie. Here's an excerpt from it:

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One day, many years ago, an ancestor of Fiona spied a beautiful creature sunning by the sea. She was both woman and seal. We would call her a mermaid, but on that western coast of Ireland such creatures were well-known as Selkies. The ancestor trapped the creature and married her, and they had children together and lived happily, although she seemed to long for the sea. One day she learned where her husband had hidden her sealskin, up under the roof, and she put it back on, and returned to the sea. Fiona (Jeni Courtney), who is 12 or 13 years old, is told this story by a relative. It is not told as a "fairy tale" but as an account of family history, to be taken quite seriously. And well might Fiona believe it, because ever since there have been dark-haired children in her family who were said to throw back to the Selkie, and whose eyes turned yearningly to the sea. The year is about 1946. Fiona's mother has died, and her father can barely be budged from his mourning in the pub. She is sent to live with her grandparents, on a sea coast across from the island of Roan Inish, where the whole family once lived. There she learns the story of her little brother Jamie, whose cradle was carried off by the waves. And there, with her grandparents and her cousin Eamon (Richard Sheridan), she first explores Roan Inish, which means, in Gaelic, "island of the seals." The secret of John Sayles' "The Secret of Roan Inish" is that it tells of this young girl with perfect seriousness. This is not a children's movie, not a fantasy, not cute, not fanciful. It is the exhilarating account of the way Fiona rediscovers her family's history and reclaims their island. If by any chance you do not believe in Selkies, please at least keep an open mind, because in this film Selkies exist in the real world, just like you and me.

Thanks Badger! Sounds really good!

I really liked Whale Rider.

Some of my other fav movies;
Sweeney Todd
The Constant Gardner
The Queen
Big Fish
Oscar And Lucinda
Elizabeth
Sleepy Hollow
Anerican Gangster
Gladiator
No Country For Old Men
O Brother Where Art Thou
Fargo
Gangs Of New York

Oh, Fargo!! Yes, one of my very fave movies ever!!

Pearl Harbor
Oh gawd - I've mentioned another sad one again! It opened my eyes to the events that happened then though! (I did my usual "oooo I must find out more on the internet") I do enjoy films which portray history with a underlying story - rather than the story taking the main part of the film - errrrrr if that makes sense!!

I enjoyed "The Queen" too. I thought James Cromwell was hilarious as Prince Philip. And could Prince Charles be any more of a passive-aggressive weinie?

Some more favorites:

"Eight Men Out"
"This Boy's Life"
the original "Parent Trap"
"Jason and the Argonauts"
both versions of "Imitation of Life"
both the 1936 and 1951 versions of "Showboat"
"Cabaret"
"Flower Drum Song"
"Chicago"
"Angels with Dirty Faces"
"Dinner at Eight"
"Stage Door"
"The Women" (1939)
"Cavalcade"
"The Heiress"
"Raising Arizona"
"Yankee Doodle Dandy"
"Singin in the Rain"
"The Bandwagon"
"Mary Poppins"
"The Sound of Music"
"The Devil Wears Prada"
"The Green Mile"

I mentioned this movie over on the Mad Men thread but I suppose I should talk about here. Another one of my favorite movies is The Winslow Boy which serendipitously enough for me, was actually on television Saturday morning. So I recorded it on my DVR!

Roger Ebert's review

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The movie is based on a 1940s play by Terence Rattigan, inspired by a true story. It involves the Winslow family of South Kensington, London--the father a retired bank official, wife pleased with their life, adult daughter a suffragette, older son at Oxford, younger son a cadet at the Royal Naval Academy. One day the young cadet, named Ronnie, is found standing terrified in the garden. He has been expelled from school for stealing a five-shilling postal order. In a scene that establishes the moral foundation for the entire story, his father Arthur calls him into the study after dinner and demands the truth, adding, "A lie between us cannot be hidden." Did he steal the money? "No, Father, I didn't." The father is played by Nigel Hawthorne ("The Madness of King George"), who is stern, firm and on the brink of old age. He believes his son and calls in the family solicitor to mount a defense. Soon one of the most famous attorneys in London has been hired: Sir Robert Morton (Jeremy Northam), who led the defense of Oscar Wilde. The father devotes his family's large but finite resources to the expensive legal battle, which eventually leads to the older son being brought home from Oxford, servants being dismissed and possessions being sold. Arthur's wife Grace (Gemma Jones) protests that justice is not worth the price being paid, but Arthur persists in his unwavering obsession. The court case inspires newspaper headlines, popular songs, public demonstrations and debates in Parliament. It proceeds on the surface level of the film. Underneath, hidden in a murk of emotional contradictions, is the buried life of the suffragette daughter, Catherine (Rebecca Pidgeon). She is engaged to the respectable, bloodless John Watherstone (Aden Gillett). She has known for years that Desmond, the family solicitor (Colin Stinton) is in love with her. As the case gains notoriety, John's ardor cools: He fears the name Winslow is becoming a laughingstock. And as John fades, Desmond's hopes grow. But the only interesting tension between Catherine and a man involves her disapproval of the great Sir Robert Morton, who rejects her feelings about women's equality and indeed disagrees with more or less every idea she possesses. It is an interesting law of romance that a truly strong woman will chose a strong man who disagrees with her over a weak one who goes along. Strength demands intelligence, intelligence demands stimulation, and weakness is boring. It is better to find a partner you can contend with for a lifetime than one who accommodates you because he doesn't really care. That is the psychological principle on which Mamet's hidden story is founded, and it all leads up to the famous closing line of Rattigan's play, "How little you know about men." A line innocuous in itself, but electrifying in context.

How cool that you were able to capture the movie!

I love when that happens too, firecracker! I mean, talk about your coincidences. Another movie I mentioned recently, "The Secret of Roan Inish" was also on last week and I was able to DVR that one too.

There's also a 1948 version of "The Winslow Boy". I'd love to see it although I'm guessing it might be hard to find.

That's a great story Adrift! How cool for you both!

I totally knew what "fag" meant!