Friday, December 30, 2016

Thursday Movie Picks #129: Coming Home



Hello there and welcome to Thursday Movie Picks a weekly series where you share three movie picks each Thursday. The rules are simple simple: Each week there is a topic for you to create a list of three movies. Your picks can either be favourites/best, worst, hidden gems, or if you're up to it one of each.For further details visit the series main page here.


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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Coming Home

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Just a little reminder, I posted the 2017 schedule last Monday. The are 7 dates open for theme suggestions. So this is the last call for themes, keep them coming if you still have some more ideas (comment on last Monday's post). I'll make my picks and post the final updated schedule late Saturday.

I'll Be Home for Christmas (1998)
I don't even remember much of this, but hey it fits the theme and if you're nostalgic for the 90's take a trip back to the late 90's with teen star Jonathan Taylor Thomas (or JTT as his called on all those teen magazines) as a college student trying to make his way home for Christmas.

Wind Chill (2007)
Two college students share a ride home for the holidays but their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere and they are trapped in the cold. Apparently there's a supernatural element to this which I somehow have totally forgot.

Beautiful Girls (1996)
The best out of the three: a guy goes back to his hometown to contemplate about his career and if he should get married.

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10 comments:

  1. I'll Be Home for Christmas! Perfect and seasonally appropriate! It was lightweight and flyaway but went down easy. I thought Beautiful Girls was okay but didn't love it, excellent cast though. Haven't seen Wind Chill but sounds worth giving a shot.

    My three came easy to me this week with my first being one of my favorite films. I had intended to stop there but decided to add an extra because of the week's events.

    The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)-Three members of the armed forces strike up a friendship on a return flight to their home town at the end of WWII. The film follows their three stories, Al (Fredric March) an upper middle class banker, Fred (Dana Andrews) a poor but hardworking clerk and Homer (Harold Russell) who has lost his arms during the war, and their difficult readjustment to a life that now seems foreign to them. This is loaded with brilliant performances by the entire cast, especially Myrna Loy as March’s patient wife and was the winner of multiple Oscars including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Russell-he only made a few film appearances but he’ll tear your heart out) and Best Actor (March-though Andrews is the standout male performance). A great film.

    The Myth of Fingerprints (1997)-After a three year estrangement four adult children, including Julianne Moore & Noah Wyle, return to the Maine home of their parents for Thanksgiving. Their mother Lena (Blythe Danner) is a gentle soul hoping for a pleasant holiday but their remote, stern father Hal (Roy Scheider) remains closed off and the gathering is fraught with tensions.

    Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael (1990)-Quirky comedy/drama of a small town preparing for the return of hometown movie star Roxy Carmichael. The person who is most anxious for her return is young orphan Dinky Bossetti (Winona Ryder) who is sure that Roxy is her birth mother and is secretly planning to claim her as her own on her arrival.

    Tribute Bonus: With the incredibly sad passing of mother & daughter legends Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher within the last two days I wanted to include at least one of their films in memoriam, I wanted to do Bundle of Joy since Debbie was expecting Carrie when she made it (the ultimate costarring vehicle!) but the subject matter wasn’t right for the theme. This is the only one that really fit…happily it’s both a good film and a charming comedy.

    The Pleasure of His Company (1961)-“Pogo” Poole (Fred Astaire), a continental gadabout returns unannounced to San Francisco, his original home, for the wedding of his daughter Jessica (Debbie Reynolds) to cattle rancher Roger Henderson (Tab Hunter). Arriving at the palatial home of his ex-wife Kate (Lilli Palmer) and her present husband Jim Dougherty (Gary Merrill) when no one is home. He basically takes over the joint ensconcing himself in the best room and overtaking their servant Toy (Harold Fong). Kate, knowing what Pogo is like is leery or his return at first but eventually is lulled into letting him stay since Jessica wants him at the wedding so much. Kate’s sly father (Charlie Ruggles-in a highly enjoyable performance) who sees right through Pogo as well as Jim and Roger are less yielding especially when Pogo turns up the charm on Jessica and tries to convince her to take off with him to see the world rather than marry. Many humorous complications ensue capped by a mad dash to the airport. Breezy comedy played by experts.

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  2. Oh man, I remember the JTT phenomenon. Lol

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    1. Haha...yeah...He usually appeared on a cover of Tigerbeat or Bop with Devon Sawa, Andrew Keegan...and I think Leonardo Dicarpio too.

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  3. I haven't seen any of these but I've meaning to watch Beautiful Girls for a long time because of Natalie Portman.

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    1. Yes yes...she is excellent in it...she had the whole precocious child thing going for her.

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  4. I haven't seen any of these films but would like to see the Christmas flick even though it sounds hokey. Beautiful girls...not too sure about but ya never know

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    1. Beautiful Girls is great. It's mostly about the main guy reconnecting with his high school friends as he tries to figure out his future. It's funny and pretty bittersweet too.

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  5. Aha! Windchill rings a bell but I haven't seen it. Beautiful Girls came up quite a bit for reunions a while back, I was looking up reunion films that is. Not heard of the first one.

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    1. Yep, Beautiful Girls makes a perfect reunion movie.

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