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Thread #13160   Message #106904
Posted By: Margo
20-Aug-99 - 12:36 PM
Thread Name: Help: Movies for a pregnant wife
Subject: RE: Help: Movies for a pregnant wife
Kat's got some good ideas, Matthew. I suggest films that run the gammut, but no tragedies or scary stuff. Jack insists that I lost my sense of humor when I was pregnant (couldn't laugh at jokes about chopping up babies and such).

I liked "Simon Birch". It is a heartwarming movie, and I both laughed and cried as she surely will. But it is wonderful. (This is difficult for me because I so seldom go to the movies, or even rent them.)

One of my black and white favorites is "Friendly Persuasion", with Gary Cooper and a very young Anthony Perkins. It is about a quaker family during the civil war, and is amusing and sweet, with it's serious side as well.

For baby movies, Three Men and a Baby is always funny. Or look who's talking.

For more Gary Cooper; Sargeant York. Or for some good comedies, Cary Grant movies like My Gal Friday, or Babe (the one with Katherine Hepburn and a tiger) Another old film that's good is I Remember Mama.

I love Jean Cocteau's "Beauty and the Beast", but make sure it has English sub titles. In it's day, the special effects were state of the art, ahead of everyone else.

Hah! You can tell I haven't seen to many modern movies, as I am suggesting old ones! I hope she likes some of them.

Margarita