Posted on 07/31/2016 11:14:58 AM PDT by gigster
What sleeper movies of the last ten years or so would you recommend to family or a friend.
One of my favorite movies is Mrs. Henderson Presents. It is a true story that takes place during WWII. You will laugh, you will cry, and you will be glad you saw it.
Don’t watch it with children. It contains elegant nudity. The nude female entertainers are like beautiful statues.
A recently widowed eccentric with money to burn and no intentions of settling down enlists the aide of a showbiz professional to transform a run-down theater in Soho into London’s most innovative entertainment hot spot in director Stephen Frears’ cinematic account of the groundbreaking Windmill Theater. The year is 1937 and, despite having recently lost her husband, 69-year-old Laura Henderson (Judy Dench) remains as ambitious and vital as ever. Aghast at her friend Lady Conway’s (Thelma Barlow) suggestion that she take up a mundane hobby such as diamond collecting to pass the time, Mrs. Henderson instead shocks her well-to-do social circle by purchasing the ramshackle Windmill Theater in the heart of downtown Soho. Unafraid to take a risk in the venture, yet lacking the experience needed to run the theater, Mrs. Henderson brings in showbiz veteran Vivian Van Damm (Bob Hoskins) to line up an opening act that will set the stage ablaze. When the ever-curious Mrs. Henderson’s intrusive spying begins to impede on Mr. Van Damm’s creative progress, the frustrated theater manager has her banished from rehearsals. Though Van Damm’s innovative idea to stage an unending stream of entertainment dubbed “Revudeville” proves a wild and profitable success, the Windmill begins to suffer when other local theaters quickly follow suit. Now faced with the prospect of seeing her once-lucrative endeavor fall by the wayside due to the unoriginality of the copycats who surround her, Mrs. Henderson decides to show audiences something they’ve never seen before by making the Windmill the first theater to feature nude female entertainers live on-stage. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Secondhand Lions.
Dude....
Britt Eckland........”Hey there...How Do?”
Of course, I'm about to the point where I'd watch Eva Green read a phone book for 90 minutes.
“Isn’t that just marvy?”
‘Waking Ned Devine’
LOL that is a cute movie.
One of my favorite movies is Mrs. Henderson Presents. It’s a true story that takes place during WWII.
You will laugh, you will cry, and you will be glad you saw it.
Don’t watch it with children. It has elegant nudity. The nude female entertainers on stage are like beautiful statues.
Those sound fascinating. They’re real, right? You didn’t just make them up did you?
A couple of good ones that might otherwise get missed....
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
A very funny movie that also gives a bit of insight into the types of characters you’d come across in the underworld of London. Great example of Brits with guns ;p
Green Street Hooligans
Insight into the strange world of organized hooliganism in English football.
Safety Not Guaranteed.
I’ll Follow You Down.
The Man from Earth.
No particular order, but they’re on my watch list and they’re films I’ll watch again and again.
BELLA along with OCTOBER BABY were two great pro-life films. AMERICAN SNIPER is the most recent memorable conservative film that I’ve caught.
I dunno...
I guess it had its moments, but sure struggled to find them. Jerry Reed was not the most believable hitman.
I liked Sicario a lot but not for children under 12
Trogs
A bizarre movie
I never win the right side of the pully bone do you?
My wife freaked the freak out..
My youngest slept in our room on a pallet with the Rott two nights after that film
One of the most violent movies I’ve ever seen
“Candy”
Just recently watched (or rather fast forwarded most of it) that movie. For some reason I had flashback to being a kid outside the movie theaters when that one was playing. The poster was intriguing, so my pals and I went to the side door and watched parts of it through the crack.
After seeing it I’m glad I never saw the whole thing when I was young or I would have been more warped in life than I already am.
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