Name a schmaltzy (excessively sentimental) movie/film you like anyway

[RockRaven]

I can think of several, but I will start with:

Seabiscuit -- I thought the film was very well cast and/or the actors in the main roles really nailed their performances, and I especially liked that they used David McCullough for narration.


So what do you like -- guilty pleasure/embarrassing or totally unrepentant -- in the sappy/schmaltzy/sentimental arena?

[MaryMagdaline]

1. While You Were Sleeping

[smirkymonkey]

2. It's a Wonderful Life

w/ Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed. A Christmas Classic.

[dchill]

7. My favorite Schmaltz movie.

[redwitch]

27. Mine too!

George Bailey was quite a wonderful guy!

[TexasBushwhacker]

13. That's the first one I thought of n/t

[RLC1]

45. Yes!

For sure. I didn't know it was on the internet until a couple of years ago. I used to watch the NBC commercial -fest with clips from the movie sprinkled in!

[NanceGreggs]

3. "Kate & Leopold"

Romance, chivalry, old-money royalty, and a snobbish duke falling hopelessly in love with an outspoken modern woman.

What schmaltz is there NOT to love?

[TlalocW]

30. A friend of mine made me watch that, and I enjoyed it

What's funny is that she has borrowed all the X-Men and Avenger/Solo Avenger movies from me partly because she actually enjoys them and partly because every year she works at a costume store during the Halloween season and wants to be knowledgeable. So after watching it, I told her, "It's good, but I'm not calling it, 'Kate & Leopold.' To me it will always be, 'When Wolverine and Sabretooth Met Sally.'"

She wasn't too pleased with that association with one of the Wolverine movies.

TlalocW

[NanceGreggs]

33. I've watched it ...

... at least five times. I don't know why I am so charmed by it - maybe because I'm a sucker for a good time-travel yarn.

I think 'When Wolverine and Sabretooth Met Sally'" is hysterical!!!

[Tree-Hugger]

80. When Wolverine and Sabertooth Met Sally

That made my day.

[Tree-Hugger]

81. Same

I can't count how many times I have watched it.

[WhiteTara]

4. Beaches

[Yavin4]

5. The Natural

Totally unrealistic, but great.

[RGinNJ]

6. The Princess Bride

[RainCaster]

8. Groundhog Day

[Control-Z]

9. Love Seabiscuit!

And, wait for it......Ever After with Drew Barrymore. Now, do we have an embarrassment smilie?

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

10. Love Story

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

11. Heart and Souls

[NanceGreggs]

35. LOVE that move! n/t

[mainstreetonce]

78. That was my choice

Love it.

[PJMcK]

12. Summer of '42 (n/t)

[zanana1]

49. That was a great movie!

I only watched it once, but now I think I'll watch it again.

[PJMcK]

50. I saw it when I was 15

That’s the same age as Hermie, the film’s protagonist. Of course, I identified with him!

ETA: The sequel, “Summer of ‘44” was no where near as good.

[WiffenPoof]

88. I think it was called...

The Class of '44

[PJMcK]

90. Right you are!

It wasn't bad, it's just that the central concept was covered in the first story. Sequels often fall short because the main conflict has been resolved and it's pretty hard to reach a higher goal in the sequel.

[NNadir]

14. Family Man.

[MissMillie]

15. The Natural

and I agree with you on Seabiscuit. (I have to add that it was filmed beautifully.)

[Dave Starsky]

16. The Sound of Music

One of my all-time favorites.

[smirkymonkey]

18. I love that one too!

I thought the love scene in that movie was so romantic.

[tanyev]

25. Yes! Don't ever need to see the stage production again,

but I can’t resist the movie shot on location in Salzburg and Christopher Plummer as Captain Von Trapp.

[Dave Starsky]

64. Even Christopher Plummer thought the movie was schmaltzy.

He's always jokingly referred to it as the "Sound of Mucus".

I got to see a pristine 70-mm print of it in Los Angeles, once. It was nearly a religious experience. It's a beautiful movie in just about every way.

[TuxedoKat]

17. Somewhere in Time

I like the time travel aspect of it too.

[Tikki]

40. I own the movie and watch it once a year.

It is very romantic in some ways, even though.


Tikki

[PennyK]

20. Amelie!

Charming, funny, sweet, and lovely.

[frogmarch]

22. Love that movie!

Maybe Amellie was schmaltzy, but I'd never thought of it as such. Just charming, funny, sweet, and lovely, as you said.

[wishstar]

21. Cinema Paradiso

Especially love the theme music and intense nostalgic emotion

[empedocles]

77. yes

[RockRaven]

23. I'll add another -- The Majestic (w/ Jim Carrey, Martin Landau, Laurie Holden, et al)

There are some great answers here. I used to love watching The Sound of Music when I was a kid. Those were the VHS days and it was divided between 2 separate cassettes, b/c it's about 3 hrs long.

[TexasBushwhacker]

24. Love Actually and Sense and Sensibility

Both with Emma Thompson, one of my favorite actresses.

[Zoonart]

28. Me too.

It does not hurt that the casts somewhat overlap. Especially love the incomparable Alan Rickman.

[smirkymonkey]

46. I love that film as well!

Especially when Elinor and Edward and Marianne and Colonel Brandon all end up together at the end. I am such a sucker for happy endings. It's embarrassing.

[Glorfindel]

26. Sleepless in Seattle - I love that movie

[FM123]

29. Bridget Jones' Diary

[Bluepinky]

38. Love that!

[smirkymonkey]

47. I actually love that movie as well.

Such a great cast and I love happy endings!

[dewsgirl]

60. My very favorite.

[HeiressofBickworth]

31. Random Harvest (1942)

Ronald Coleman and Greer Garson. Wounded soldier, WW I, loses memory of real identity. He finds a girl, gets married and then a fall restores his memory but wipes out the intervening years. He becomes a successful businessman, in a platonic marriage. Ultimately his memory of the time he lost comes back to him. He discovers that his dutiful and patient wife is in fact his lost wife. And they lived happily ever after. (pass the tissues).

[TlalocW]

32. Pixar's, "Coco"

I felt the tears coming when I watched that. One of my undergrad degrees is Spanish so I liked the Mexican-ness of it. The end really got me though. So did the last Toy Story when Andy gave away all his toys to a little girl before he headed to college.

TlalocW

[Zorro]

42. It is a remarkably touching movie

I was surprised at just how powerful it was for an animated feature.

[TlalocW]

34. Another one, and it is extremely schmaltzy with wonderful overacting

Made all the better because it's Shakespeare. "Much Ado About Nothing," made in 1993 starring Kenneth Branagh, Kate Beckinsale (fell in love with her character), Emma Thompson, and many more great actors (and also Keanu Reeves).

TlalocW

[Wounded Bear]

55. IIRC, it also had Denzel as an Italian count...

I suspect that the plot line, like many of Shakespeare's plays, is a bit misogynistic for today's crowds.

Great flick, though.

[Tucker08087]

36. Dead Poet's Society

[Bluepinky]

37. Serendipity, Jerry Maguire and Top Gun

[Bluepinky]

39. The original Rocky, it's a great love story.

[Pachamama]

41. Meet Joe Black....my favorite

"I want you to get swept away out there. I want you to levitate. I want you to sing with rapture and dance like a dirvish...Yeah be deliriously happy or at least leave yourself open to be. I know it's a cornball thing, but love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. I say, fall head over heels, find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. How do you find him? Well, you forget your head and you listen to your heart. The truth is, there's no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love, well, you haven't lived a life at all. But you have to try, because if you haven't tried, you haven't lived."

Anthony Hopkins - Lightning could strike:

[NBachers]

43. The Bishop's Wife- Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven- I can't pass Christmas without it.

And, of course, there will always be Casablanca

[Upthevibe]

44. I have a few that have already been mentioned here:

It's a Wonderful Life, The Family Man, Groundhog Day, and I'm sure there are others but I'm tired and these came off the top of my head...

[smirkymonkey]

48. Persuasion

Based on a Jane Austen novel w/ Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds. Kind of a sleeper film but so beautiful and romantic.

[blur256]

51. Big Fish

I'm not a crier but the ending gets me every single time. Reminds me of my grandpa

[patricia92243]

58. Great, unusual movie - and I love Ewan McGregor (sp).

[blur256]

61. Me too

Great actor

[nolabear]

67. I love that movie but have a really sad connection.

I absolutely adored the actor/monologist Spaulding Grey. Saw him several times. His ability to entrance with a story was a talent I envy. But he was inclined to depression, and after a terrible car wreck he had all kinds of difficulties.

He’d thought of suicide before, but apparently watching Big Fish allowed him to let go. He jumped off the Staten Island ferry soon after. It breaks my heart. I don’t begrudge him, and I love that movie, but they’re linked forever for me.

[blur256]

69. Oh my

I love this movie for so many different reasons but that is so sad.

[MontanaMama]

52. Sleepless In Seattle.

Under The Tuscan Sun. You’ve Got Mail. The Natural.

*edited to add Field Of Dreams. 😏

[AJT]

53. 13 Going on 30, You've Got Mail, High Fidelity, Pump Up the Volume

I am sure there are more....I enjoy a schmaltzy movie.

[lark]

54. Ghost

Old Yeller

[Bluepinky]

56. Oh yes, Ghost. Excellent film and love story.

[patricia92243]

57. The English Patient.

[pnwest]

62. I LOOOOOVE this movie!

Haven’t seen it in years, may have to see if it’s available on Prime this weekend...

[Atman]

59. What Dreams May Come

Amazing movie.

[pnwest]

63. When Harry Met Sally.

[Submariner]

65. Never Cry Wolf

[Zorro]

66. Forrest Gump

Its Oscar wins were well-deserved.

[nolabear]

68. Steel Magnolias.

Makes me ugly cry. I love it.

[blur256]

70. Oh so good

I told wifey the other night we need to watch that even though...

[nolabear]

71. "Malin! Not Malin!"

[MicaelS]

72. Titanic. n/t

[Totally Tunsie]

73. An Affair to Remember

with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. They meet on a transatlantic liner sailing, fall in love, and agree to meet 6 months later at the top of the Empire State Building if their feelings don't change. Her husband and his fiancée are waiting at the dock to greet them upon their return. She never makes it to the ESB, leaving him to wonder why. After time passes, they cross paths while out in public, each with another, which leads him to search for her address. He pays a surprise visit to her on Christmas Eve and learns why she didn't show up at their appointed time. He brings her a shawl that belonged to his grandmother, who they visited together during a stopover on their voyage. During this visit, he realizes why she hadn't shown up...and then my sobbing starts.

Sleepless in Seattle was actually based upon this movie.

I've probably seen this movie at least two dozen times or more, and it still tears me apart.

[jrandom421]

74. Marty (1955)

A seemingly ordinary slice of life movie, but with unexpected depth and feeling. An ordinary working guy, taking care of his widowed mother, hanging out with his friends, finds a girl who actually likes him.

It won an Academy Award for Ernest Borgnine as Marty


For me, it was ono of the most touching films, and gave me hope at a time in my life where I was resigning myself to living alone for the rest of my life. If Marty could find a girl who liked him for who he was, maybe I could, too.

[red dog 1]

75. + 1

"What do you want to do tonight, Angie?"

[jrandom421]

87. Hey Marty

"We're back to that, huh? I say to you, 'Whaddya feel like doin' tonight?' And you say back to me, 'I dunno. Whaddya feel like doin' tonight?' Then we wind up sittin' around your house with a couple of cans of beer watchin' the Hit Parade on television."

[WiffenPoof]

89. More noteworthy...

"Marty" won Best Picture

[red dog 1]

76. As Good As It Gets

"Ghost" too.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

79. You've Got Mail

...and most Pixar movies

[ghostsinthemachine]

82. Pretty Woman

I have watched a 1000 times.

[Tree-Hugger]

83. Ever After...and more...

Ever After
Kate and Leopold
Steel Magnolias
Clueless
Bridget Jones Diary
Legally Blonde
13 Going On 30
27 Dresses

[miyazaki]

84. My Girl.

I practically lived it. Though I obviously wasn't stung to death by bees, but had a few scrapes.

[wishstar]

86. My Dog Skip and Under the Tuscan Sun