Recommend a movie my mother would like!

[Hello.there]

She's a very hard woman to please! I've rented her 79,372 movies (roughly ) and she's probably loved five or six of them -

eg

On Golden Pond
Chocolat
Amelie
Babette's Feast
My Life as a Dog

She hates anything too 'drippy', but loves 'sweet' movies with a good story, maybe with a touch of romance. Violence and heart-breaking ends (eg Pay it Forward) are a complete no-no.

Help?

 

[skunk]

Best In Show. Brilliant effort from the team that brought you This Is Spinal Tap.

 

[McGiord]

This is a have it all kind of movie:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0292542/

Life is Beautiful:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118799/

Le Placard:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243493/
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[liketom]

Little Miss Sunshine or March of the Penguins

 

[Leareth]

Volver
not happy but good.

 

[TEG]

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (The One With the Whales)
Beethoven
Beethoven's 2nd
Babe

An iffy movie, with no violence, lots of humor, and some romance.... Super Troopers.

TEG

 

[yellow]

An iffy movie, with no violence, lots of humor, and some romance.... Super Troopers.

No movie that features VT and Maple Syrup chugging could be iffy!

 

[jb60606]

Hard to say without knowing your mother, but...

Never met anyone that didn't thoroughly enjoy:

Kind of a "feel-good" movie, but touching nonetheless:

The story is a little rough on the squeamish (a little violence and some sensitive topics), but my mother loved:

 

[Kamera RAWr]

Best In Show. Brilliant effort from the team that brought you This Is Spinal Tap.

I was soooo going to suggest that

 

[GoCubsGo]

You've rented 80k movies? hmmm

+2 on About a Boy
Also, Land of Women.

 

[sushi]

Maybe one of these:

The Dish

Miracle

Something's Gotta Give

 

[princealfie]

Funny Games directed by Michael Haneke. Both the 1997 German and the 2008 English versions.

 

[velocityg4]

Oldies but great

The Philadelphia Story

Bringing Up Baby

Mildred Pierce

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

Man I can drive my roommates up the wall sometimes with these old movies.

 

[Stampyhead]

Life is Beautiful:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118799/

I was going to suggest that one too, but it's very sad at the end, thus breaking the OP's 'no heart-breaking endings' rule.

I thought 'Music and Lyrics' was a good movie.

 

[SoldOutMatinee]

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. or maybe she's seen it already since you've rented over a million movies for her.

 

[freeny]

Harold & Maude
Garden State
About a Boy
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
A Perfect World

 

[true777]

I second "Harold and Maude". Beautiful, touching, interesting and clever -- a classic.

I also second "Life is Beautiful"

- The Pillow Book (Peter Greenaway)

- Memoirs of a Geisha

 

[faust]

Pi

The Fountain

They are both very good films.

 

[Hello.there]

You people are legends, thank you!

Okay, I'll have a look through that list.....surely there's one in there that she'll like?!

But forgot to mention......she thinks Hugh Grant is a "drip".

 

[Hello.there]

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (The One With the Whales)

Best In Show. Brilliant effort from the team that brought you This Is Spinal Tap.

O.......kay.

 

[freeny]

But forgot to mention......she thinks Hugh Grant is a "drip".

That leaves out "About a Boy"

 

[FleurDuMal]

Fisting Firemen.

 

[3nm]

big fish?

 

[faust]

La Vie En Rose is another good movie.

EDIT: Big Fish is another kick ass movie, so I'm seconding BiTurboMunkie's recommendation of it.

 

[Hello.there]

Fisting Firemen.

Right. Is it, um, romantic? **cough**