Any adaptation of a Jane Austen book, e.g., Pride and Prejudice. These are the ultimate chick-flicks. Guaranteed...

Kung Fu Panda

Here's the list (from Jason's wife--he gave me permission to post it.)
While You Were Sleeping, A Walk To Remember, A Walk in the Clouds, Maid in Manhattan, Never Been Kissed, Sabrina (the Harrison Ford one), The Cutting Edge. Ummmmm, I would choose these over the Panda one. :)

Todd,

Michele and I usually pick something to watch each night after the kids are in bed (this past winter was the entire Northern Exposure series - wow even before Sarah Palin made the scene - Alaska was cooool! - a few shows are "out there" so use descretion).

We watched the entire Little House & Walton's as a family the past 2 years with great memories and even visited Walton's Mountain in Virginia this past summer.

This year for the family (kids 10 and older probably) we've started "7th Heaven" and we're in season #2 and lovin' the great life lessons it teaches. Suggest to start with Season #1 (episode #3).

We get all of our stuff though Netflix which makes it easy. We love series movies/shows because it like watching a movie that is 200 hours long! Hey we even watched the first 3 seasons of The Partridge Family...stop laughing...

Have a blessed Christmas season...our first show in is Michigan in March!

Zavatsky Family
KidsLoveTravel.com

My favorite movie of all time...Luther, the new one with Joseph Feinnes, great story and great acting! My favorite movie this year, "Into The Wild" (not for kids). Great series to order on Netflix, the documentary "Long Way Round and Long Way Down" featuring Ewan McGregor traveling the world on a motorcycyle with his friend. Other good documentary: "The Spirit of the Marathon".

Okay, so here's one my husband and I love... we watch it about once a year - and it's still our favorite husband/wife movie. It's the classic adventure of Passion, Honor and Intrigue so it covers both of our needs in a movie!! :-) The name is: "The Scarlet Pimpernel" - there are a few versions out there but the best one is with: Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour and Ian McKellen 1982 version... I sure hope you get to watch it with your wife -it'll become a favorite - guaranteed!!!!

... Another good is "Return to Me".

"Return to Me" starring David Duchovny, Minnie Driver, Jim Belushi and Bonnie Hunt.
This is an excellent movie. No food or drink though. Too much laughing and crying...
"Only You" is also a good one.

I would definitely reccomend Fireproof. It addresses the 'drift' factor in a powerful way. It is encouraging, yet shows how truly ugly things can get when left to our own selfishness.

One video my wife & I love to watch in November / December is Christmas in Connecticut - it is a oldie in B/W. Each time we watch it it gets funnier. We were introduced to it by a couple who are friends of ours & have been laughing annually. (Barbara Stanwick is about 20 in this film....)

Well a really great movie my wife watches over and over is "Perfect Stranger".

Please do not mistake this for "The Perfect Stranger". The latter is a secular movie.

But the former is a Wonderful fiction about Jesus coming to visit a mom/wife at a restaurant. This is a captivating, fully christian theme movie. Actor Jefferson Moore, Actress Pamela Brumley

There is a second movie out it is called Another Perfect Stranger. I think you'll find both are Wonderful.

Have any of you seen "Click" with Adam Sandler? It's a pretty silly movie, and definitely funny, but I couldn't believe how powerful the story was. I couldn't believe I was actually crying while watching an Adam Sandler movie. Definitely a good movie for a husband and wife to refocus their priorities back onto what is truly important in life. Check it out!

Posted By: CRBMoAPlease tell us about "I Am David"?

MY wife and I just watched this one. We really liked it. It's the story of a young boy's journey running away from a concentration camp post WW2. Great story and intrigue. It keeps your attention even though it is well named a drama type movie. It even has a surprise at the end to make you want to see it again.

Jeremy

Groundhog Day!! Bill Murry "Well what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn`t one today!"
Funny, charming and romantic.

my wife and I have recently borrowed the A&E Literary Classics Romance Collection. It has about 8 different movies including The Scarlet Pimpernel (very good), Ivanhoe (very good), Lorna Doone, Jane Eyer, Victoria & Albert, and others. Most of them I would put in the "chick flick" catagory but some are very much adventure films. Other movies I would recomend, some already mentioned but I'll confirm them: Princess bride, Fireproof, manfrom snowy river, love comes softly (surprizingly good), sense & sensibility, Scarlet pimpernel (1982 & 1934), sabrina, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, 27 dresses.

Many people have been mentioning the "Love Comes Sofly" series so I thought I would put them in order of production seeings they are better watched this way. We did watch them and loved them all. Although my wife has since read some of the books and has proclaimed the books are better.

Love Comes Softly, 2003
Love's Enduring Promise, 2004
Love's Long Journey, 2005
Love's Abiding Joy, 2006
Love's Unending Legacy, 2007
Love's Unfolding Dream, 2008
And the new one should be released next year.

Hi Todd,
Great idea--I am always adding to the list in my adenda book of decent films for our family. I would have to agree with those above that Galaxy Quest and Princess Bride are comedy classics. Another lesser known comedy is "The gods must be crazy I" It starts out slowly like a documentary, but we love it. I would skip its sequel, however. If you are looking for good portrayals of fatherhood (you bein' da dad and all), I would suggest:

Martian Child--an adoption story of a needy boy by a widower
Cry the Beloved Country--best selling book made into a movie a couple times. James Earl Jones stars in latest.
The Power of One --also set in S. Africa has some violence, but a powerful story. (NOt for young kids)
Spy Kids I and II and the Incredibles are great kid fare and fun for parents too.
Hope you get some good ideas. Thanks for your constant encouragement.

Hi Todd, Hi fellas (aka you da dads!)

my wife and I happened across a one season run of a top show that ended up as a movie which turned out to be the grand finale of the TV series.

the Tv series was call FireFly and the movie was called Serenity

Note you MUST!!! watch the TV series first!

It had just the right balance of Chick and Guy candy with good morals and no Cussing !

Blessings

Why did this thread stop? It must continue.......!!

Have now watched most of the movies listed above & need more.

There have to be additional suggestions out there.

Here in Buffalo we still have 2 more solid months of snow & cold-

Must have more movies...................


Keep 'em coming-
Randy

Horton Hears a Who is now out on DVD. Not really a Husband/Wife thing, but your kids should like it. Plus it has some good messages re: faith in what we can't actually *see*, the value of life (contrast: abortion) "A Person's a Person No Matter How Small", the loyalty of friends, etc.

Plus it's funny.

FIREPROOF! FIREPROOF! FIREPROOF! period.

Fireproof is by far THE BEST MOVIE on marriage and for marriage TO DATE. It lifts up the holiness of marriage in a creative, non-predictable, REAL life struggles, while at the same time being REALLY entertaining.

What other movie (mentioned above or not) tackles the conflict of marriage, the parasite of pornography, the covenant of marriage, a rock solid gospel presentation AND the most powerful scene of a husband humbling himself before his wife and asking her to forgive him.

BEWARE ladies, if this movie doesn't make a tear come to your man's eye, you may be married to a dead man (or at least one without a sensitive bone in his body.)

Posted By: tkruegerWe have a very short list of movies that we recommend - any of the Sherwood Church films: Flywheel, Facing the Giants, and Fireproof.

We have just bought all three of these. They are going to go down in history as the best christian movies of all time. (in my book anyway)

The Flywheel movie put out by the guys who did Facing the Giants and Fireproof is one of our favorites.

Part of loving your wife is learning her special little idiosyncrasies and catering to them. My wife likes science fiction and British Humour (but not the naughty British Humour). So, when I check a video out of the library for us to watch after the kids go to bed, it's usually an old Dr. Who episode. Last night was Star Trek - First Contact, which she had never seen. We also have recorded some older BBC tv series such as To the Manor Born and Good Neighbors. The Agatha Christie Poirot mysteries are pretty good too. But you have to be careful with some of those. Tom in Good Neighbors does some mighty irritating guy things and if I'm sitting too close to my wife I'll come away with a bruised shoulder as she takes out her frustration with him on me.

On the other hand, my wife enjoys watching me enjoy something. So, while it may not be her thing, she enjoys watching the campy kind of humor that sets me to chortling, like Princess Bride or The God's Must Be Crazy. I recently discovered Rumpole of the Bailey, a 1980 BBC series about a curmudgeonly old defense attorney who refers to his wife as, "She Who Must Be Obeyed." (based on the books by John Mortimer.) It's a bit worldly with lots of smoking and drinking, but little overt sex and violence.

Bottom line: You aren't necessarily demonstrating love for your wife by sitting through a chick flick. That may not be her thing. you demonstrate love for your wife by observing her peculiar personality and catering to it.