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Have you seen Pleasantville? One of my all-time favorite movies and seems in line with what you've mentioned. Another sweet, quirky, and very underrated film is Lars and the Real Girl (no cursing or sex).
The Shawshank Redemption is a great movie that seems to appeal to almost everyone and that I could re-watch forever. Does your dad like music? A recent fun film was Yesterday, about a world without Beatles music. Just a heads up, BlackKklansman has a lot of swearing that is not necessarily central to the plot (good movie though).
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And while I'm on Brad Pitt, if your dad likes sports/baseball, Moneyball is a very engaging film. Another of my own personal favorites is a sweet, fairy-tale like under-rated M. Night Shyamalan film, Lady in the Water. And randomly, here are a couple of favorite movies of my in-laws, who are in their mid-70s: While You Were Sleeping American Grafitti
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01-25-20, 04:56 PM | |
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Are the PBS series likely to interest him?
They don't ALL appeal to me, but I do find most of their mystery series to be good. Lately I've really liked Endeavor (Inspector Morse as a young man in the sixties) Plus, they have programming on all sorts of other subjects, cooking, documentaries, etc. One thing I do like about vintage movies (black and white, mostly) is that they have actual scripts and you can follow the story just by the words they say, you aren't trapped staring at the screen so you don't miss some visual detail. Well, most of the time. I'm a fan of All about Eve. Network-wise, I do like the dramas on CBS. Blue Bloods is reliable. Oh, and maybe double check the library for dvds. They've got a lot of documentaries, too. Late in his life my dad got in the habit of watching the David Attenborough programs at night when he couldn't sleep.
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01-25-20, 05:01 PM | |
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Thanks for the heads up on Black Klansman. I don't watch a lot of movies so I'm not familiar with many of these (but I do like the awards shows and I remember that winning or being nominated for something)
I would like to see Yesterday - I will put it on the list and see what he says. I wanted to see A Star is Born and he vetoed that one for whatever reason. |
01-25-20, 05:07 PM | |
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Secondhand Lions (Robert Duvall, Haley Joel Osment) Open Range (Kevin Costner) Range War so there is violence Lonesome Dove (Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones) 12 hour mini series The Sixth Sense Maudie- Story of folk artist Maud Lewis I loved the series China Beach but I'm not sure if it's on streaming, we don't do streaming. Father Brown Mysteries |
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