[Diddle E. Squat]

OMGosh, how can anyone choose just one, or even just a dozen? So many good films, here's a few that I don't think have been mentioned yet:

Heaven Can Wait(Beatty version)
The Philadelphia Story
Oklahoma(surely somebody has already mentioned it?)
The World According to Garp
Fantasia(but only at a big, classic theater with an excellent sound system)
Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World(I dunno how many Mads there are)

Big Night(the soundtrack is stupendous, I can't tell you how many parties that I've used most of the tracks(50's Italian/Big Band)
The Preacher's Wife(90's version, a Penny Marshal gem, mature subject handled in a most un-Hollywood way, its as if an evangelical wrote the script, and another must have soundtrack.)

[Diddle E. Squat]

Oh yeah, don't forget Tin Men.

[B-Chan]

Wow! You're the only person besides my wife I've ever heard talk about The Big Night!

For the uninitiated: Stanley Tucci and talented (but unfortunately liberal) Tony Shalhoub shine in this pictire, one of the few truly great "foodie" movies. If you want a well-crafted flick about cooking, family, the immigrant experience, and love -- but don't want all the syrup -- The Big Night is the film to get. Warning to those who haven't seen it: do not watch while hungry!

And The World According to Garp? In many ways, Garp is the definitive Preppie movie (and, as a Preppie myself, that counts), and remains the only Robin Williams flick I can stand. For those who haven't seen it, Garp is based on the 1982 novel by talented (but unfortunately pro-abortion) John Irving, and is sensitively performed and beautifully filmed, with an outré sense of humor that was controversial in its time. It's a film that gives real meaning to the term "bittersweet."