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What are your comfort movies when you're sick?

43 replies

RamseyGordon · 08/11/2023 14:01

I'm ill at the moment and need inspiration

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SecondUsername4me · 08/11/2023 15:41

Jack and Sarah
The Martian

Darklane · 08/11/2023 15:43

Some Like it Hot
The Commitments
Brassed Off
You’ve Got Mail
Four Weddings & a Funeral
Hello Dolly

Yirk · 08/11/2023 15:58

Forest Gump
Billy Elliot
Any Disney film.

dontforgetme · 08/11/2023 16:37

@DisingenuousBatshittery LOVE this film! Absolutely laugh out loud hilarious! Ricky Baker !! Grin

grayhairdontcare · 08/11/2023 16:38

The Marvel films
Notting Hill
Indian jones

Letsnotargue · 08/11/2023 16:45

Crazy Rich Asians

GentlemansRelish · 08/11/2023 16:50

His Girl Friday
Key Largo
Trop Belle Pour Toi
Un coeur en hiver
High Society
Une liaison pornographique
Annie Hall

If DS (11)and I are ill together, we watch Twister and Christmas films. If DH and I are ill together, we watch the 1990 Cyrano de Bergerac with Gerard Depardieu, and episodes of Spooks or The West Wing.

Littlelucas · 08/11/2023 16:58

Many of the ones mentioned but my absolute favourite comfort films are:

Peter's Friends
Practical Magic
You've Got Mail
Circle of Friends
Grosse Point Blank
Pretty in Pink
Weird Science
Sixteen Candles
Romancing the Stone
The Man with Two Brains

I must have seen all of them 50 times!

Ifulikepinacoladas · 08/11/2023 17:03

ET
My Cousin Vinny.
Dr Seuss films, especially Cat in the Hat.

haribosmarties · 08/11/2023 17:07

The 90s version of Little Women
Ever After
Never Been Kissed
The Wedding Singer
Sliding Doors
Pretty Woman
Stardust
The TV series Lost in Austen
The TV series of North and South... the one with Richard Armitage
The first two seasons of Jonathan Creek!

quivers · 08/11/2023 17:52

Hairspray
The Full Monty
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Local Hero
Calamity Jane

lyingonthebeach · 08/11/2023 17:55

Anything with Cary Grant :)

GoodnightJude1 · 08/11/2023 17:55

Hmmm….my comfort movies aren’t probably your typical comfort movies.

Football Factory
Green Street
Con Air
Darkest Hour
American History X

Darkandstormynite · 08/11/2023 18:03

Moonstruck
Last Holiday
Julie/Julia
Gosford Park

SpeculatingRooks · 08/11/2023 18:05

Desperately Seeking Susan
Beaches
Ghost

SpeculatingRooks · 08/11/2023 18:06

And Witches of Eastwick!

wlv12 · 08/11/2023 18:07

On the sofa with a torn meniscus unable to weight bear so good to read this!

Look who’s talking 1 and 2
Father of the bride 1 and 2
Three men and a baby/little lady
Mrs Doubtfire
The Wedding Singer

Perimama · 08/11/2023 18:08

Bridget Jones,
Coming to America
Bridesmaids
Bad Moms

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