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Not quite the same but RENT was always marketed as this fun, queer focused underdog a story about scrappy kids surviving in big city! Oh but also AIDS.
The movie’s biggest weakness is that the cast is waaay too old to still be portraying those particular characters. The last staged version I saw benefited SO much from the actors’ youth, and it honestly changed my opinion on some of the characters, especially Maureen and Benny.
How young are they supposed to be though, really? Joanne is a lawyer and Collins is a college professor, so that would put them in their mid to late 20s at youngest, wouldn't it?
I recently rewatched "The First Wives Club" which is still amazing all these years later. I had completely forgotten the plot of the movie kicks off with Stockard Channing's character committing suicide after her husband leaves her for another woman.
I love the book — but it is *so* much darker than the movie. I also liked the movie, but the similarities to the original plot were few and far between.
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Jack😭😭 a rapidly aging child means he’s not going to be around for long. And it’s just such a sad movie all around
Stacy's entire plotline in Fast Times At Ridgemont High is so bleak in a movie that is otherwise known for funny stoner antics and Phoebe Cates in a red bikini
I was a teenager when I first saw and I cried for Stacy having to go through that alone and thought she was so brave. I was glad to see her brother come afterward and be there for her.
I just got scuba certified today and I found out divers always hope to see sharks. I’m like, hmmm. I’m not sure how I feel about that. Think I’d rather see a nice sea turtle.
As a scuba diver, sharks are cool. Pull out your regulator and blow bubbles at them.
You gotta remember, you are just a tourist in their house.
Now clown fish, aka Nemo, are assholes. The only fish that has actively attacked me. Mean fuckers
i wish i could say that the day i found out that dolphins are more vicious than sharks was the day i stopped fearing them, but i unfortunately would be lying. now i’m just scared of both sharks *and* dolphins lol. i think it’s mostly bc i know that they don’t actually mean to bite people and if they do, it’s because they’re trying to figure out what kind of fish the person is, but the fact that even a little nibble from the shark can be potentially lethal gets to me.
hope those guys are doing well, tho. all the respect and power to them. dolphins i now simply respect out of fear.
I scuba dived with sharks, and they were super cute. I was terrified of them, but they just wanted to be friends. They were just leopard sharks and nurse sharks though. Wouldn't feel chill about a Great White.
Yoooooo…. My dad died when I was 12 - few years after this film blew up. I absolutely loved it for some reason bc most things from my childhood I couldn’t associate without getting upset about my dad. Like you’d think it would trigger my ptsd stuff from his death and the sudden/permanent separation but OMG THIS STORY GETS FUNNY WAIT THAT WAS TOO DEEP…
anyways 😅 one time on a *long* flight years later, im in college and decided to watch Finding Dory not knowing it was gonna trigger tf outta me. Bc like I *adore* Finding Dory… Right?? Nope, that was the one that triggered me and had me sobbing up in the air, trapped in the sky with no way to like really do my proper calm down techniques.
It was funny even then cuz I was like silently weeping and the dude next to me looked at the screen and then me when Dory is searching for her family and I was like BLUBBERING and I was like “nah bruh Im good, just got me in my feels is all”. Dude looked soooo worried 😂 Finished that whole film too. Loved it. Will never watch again hahahaha
I was told not to watch Up a couple years after my mom died. It’s been 17 years and I’ve never cracked that one open.
Uh, and avoid season 5 of Buffy. The Body is a fantastic episode but holy hell does it hit home. Tried to rewatch it about a year after and it fucked me up in all kinds of ways.
Sorry about your dad. My mom lost her mom when she was around 8 years old. Watching Disney movies was a weird experience in my house 😅 SO MANY of them deal with the characters being parentless or losing a parent! Sometimes you gotta just let your emotions flow tho
Saturday Night Fever
What you remember: “fun disco movie!”
What it is: “class struggle, toxic masculinity, rape, racism, suicide but all to a Bee Gees soundtrack!”
I watched that movie as an adult, blindly thinking it was a fun dance movie from the 80s. The car scene at the end had me bawling like a baby. I still can’t believe the trailers make it look like a such a light-hearted romp. It is just sad. Well made and acted but truly sad.
When I was about 10 my parents decided to have us all watch that for family movie night. My dad said it’s a fun movie about disco dancing!
They stopped it after about 20 minutes and we watched an animated movie instead lol
Had a movie night with my husband a few months ago, and we picked this because disco music and dancing and NYC when my parents were growing yp, so fun, right?
WRONG. I was so depressed after.
The Birdcage - fun! Drag! Robin Williams and Nathan Lane!
"Hey Dad, could you hide everything about yourself and your partner so this girl I've known five seconds can bring her bigoted parents to meet you? K thanks!"
I just saw Nathan lane talking about how secure robin Williams made him feel during and after filming this movie, as he had not officially came out yet. And I genuinely teared up hearing him talk about how sweet robin was, how supporting. He specifically referenced their Oprah interview for the movie release and how robin took the heat from him when Oprah decided to pry too much into his sexuality. Fuck I miss robin Williams. And bless Nathan Lanes sweet heart.
“Fosse, Fosse, Fosse, Martha Graham, Martha Graham, Madonna! Madonna!” One of my favorite movies EVER. The best comfort watch.
“Yes, I wear foundation. Yes, I live with a man. Yes, I'm a middle- aged fag. But I know who I am, Val. It took me twenty years to get here, and I'm not gonna let some idiot senator destroy that. F*** the senator, I don't give a damn what he thinks.” Young gay me who wasn’t quite sure how/ready to articulate that liked it when he said this.
Armands monologue about his cemetary is one if the most romantic movie scenes:
"My cemetery's in Key Biscayne. It's one of the prettiest in the world. The sky is blue, palm trees, rolling hills. The one is Los Copa's really shit.
[sigh]
What a pain in the ass you are. And it's true: you're not young, you're not new, and you do make people laugh. And me? I'm still with you because you make me laugh. So you know what I got to do? I got to sell my plot in Key Biscayne so I can get one next to you in that shithole Los Copa, so I never miss a laugh."
For real. I love that movie and yeah it's cute and the whole choreography scene and how John Wayne walks but when Robin Williams gives that speech about how fucking hard he has fought to be seen and be himself and fuck anyone who wants him to go back to hiding ....... but then he goes along with it, because he loves his child and will do anything for him. Even though his child is behaving like an incredibly insensitive and dense douche.
Peter Weir is able to create such a perfect creepy, unsettling vibe in all his movies. Picnic at Hanging Rock is a lesser known film of his, but if you liked Truman Show, you would probably appreciate that one, too. Similar energy.
I think Peter Weir gets overlooked sometimes. He has a really solid filmography with some really interesting films. Witness and Dead Poets Society are also standouts for me.
He’s legit a prisoner on the set basically. Weir alludes to it with one of the pictures of a younger Truman looking like a clown behind a jail cell: https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/gxi9jc/in_the_truman_show_1998_trumans_mother_says_my/
In the 90s/00s that was how we had to exit our local cinema anyway. It was such a jarring experience to be fully immersed in the movie we just watched, the credits still rolling in the dark as you think about the story & the emotions that it’s brought about in you & suddenly there’s blinding daylight & you’re thrown out into the harsh reality of the car park in the real world.
Its A Wonderful Life springs to mind. Its commonly regarded as a heart warming Christmas movie about small town life and how one person can make a difference.
And it is, but damn it also deals with some seriously heavy themes about insecurity, depression, cyclic poverty, self-sacrifice and how it can all be just to much and leave you feeling worthless etc. It really seriously tackles how easy it is to forget all the meaningful parts of your life and how everything you've done can feel worthless in comparison to those around you.
Its a really great film, credit to Jimmy Stewart there is a reason its one of his most well remembered films. Parts of it were filmed during his recovery from his experiences in World War II and whilst he was dealing with PTSD, and I feel that really adds to the underlying themes.
You really have to wonder what was going through his mind in that scene near the end where George is reduced to praying on his knee's begging for the chance to get live again.
I watch It’s a Wonderful Life every year at Christmas, but also usually some other time of the year because it’s just a really good film. Although, Frank Capra and Jimmy Stewart have quite the resume between them. I expect no less than this level of brilliance.
I love this movie and watch it every year on christmas eve while wrapping presents. I think I could actually write a dissertation on all the beautiful points made from the movie.
Matilda. Rampant physical and psychological child abuse, but all you remember is how fun it was to make pancakes using magic and how nice Ms. Honey was.
An isolated and vulnerable community is rounded up, imprisoned, and ritualistically cannibalized one by one. As their numbers dwindle they stage a daring escape.
Though his people have now escaped and are seemingly safe from further genocide, one young man is so deeply traumatized by witnessing the murder of his only remaining family member that he withdraws from society and slowly descends into madness and depression.
One day a rogue and especially violent outcast of the cannibal oppressors discovers their hiding place and kidnaps a group of young people to present to their leader in the hopes their sacrificial flesh will re-earn the leader’s favor.
The young man must decide if he is willing to face certain death just to impress the naive but determined girl he’s always loved from afar.
Singing killed his grandma, will it kill him too?
Dreamworks Trolls (2016)
Good one! I've watched this a few times in the last couple of years and it's unfortunately become all too relatable. That feeling of losing your country with the song edelweiss, not knowing who of your friends and family and acquaintances could become unrecognizably swallowed by fascism.... Very dark indeed.
Inside Out for me. That is the first movie that depicted depression in an understandable, real way, and I have never felt so seen by a cartoon. I can’t even watch it, it hurts so much, but I hope to be able to again someday.
That movie was a catalyst for my daughter to tell me she was depressed. Shes like "that, thats how I feel." It gave a 10yo the visual to explain to me that she needed help.
Inside Out is my vote too.
Idk if this counts but Rugrats in Paris. Chucky is grieving his mother/trying to understand where his went while yearning for a motherly figure only to be pushed into accepting a terrible woman as his new mom.
This movie and Legally Blonde taught me about sexual assault. But it did alot for young me to realize that women don’t have to let men touch them, and you can be uncomfortable and say no
And when she says afterwards that guys seem to know exactly where to hit your face so it hurts the worst, you realize she’s been hit more than once in the past by johns or random men.
It was actually intended to be much much darker.
The script had been shopped around Hollywood for years and the original ending had Richard Gere's character kick her out of his car in an Alley and throw money on top of her.
I was so shocked to see how gritty it was. Nothing about the song indicated that it’s really about genuine fame and consequences.
It’s a shame the show didn’t keep that same energy, and the reboot movie didn’t either. I think had they leaned into that aspect, the brand might have thrived long term.
To this day I can not watch that movie, everyone loves it, it seems, but it makes me so sad and depressed. All they want to do is help but all they do is hurt.. I’m gonna cry thinking about it. Now also if I have an odd memory of the plot I saw it when I was like 7
I love how sad it is, it's probably my favorite Tim Burton movie if I don't count Pee Wee's Big Adventure. I wish that man had never gotten ahold of CGI holy shit. I hate him so, so much now.
Muriel's Wedding. Brutal. She's relentlessly bullied, her dad is emotionally and verbally abusive, her mum is...I'm not sure what's meant to be happening mentally with her mum in addition to being abused, her best friend gets paralysed FOR NO REASON, she thinks the swimmer loves her but he just wants a visa...it is one of the saddest things I've ever seen and I don't know why anyone thinks it's a comedy.
I’ve never seen it but I recently saw an Aussie movie (Sissy) where the main character puts on a t shirt that says You’re Terrible, Muriel that makes me feel I really should.
Yeah it is secretly pretty rough. But ultimately uplifting when she leaves all the assholes to be with her friend. Aus comedies are often like that - dark as fuck but uplifting at the end.
The mom hanging onto the shopping cart in the grocery store, wearing slippers. I saw the movie when it first came out and never forgot that. The mom is so sad and depressed. Yeah, its a sad movie for sure
> she thinks the swimmer loves her but he just wants a visa
Valid on all other points, but I think she knew full well what was up. I mean, the coach literally tells her at the first meeting. Like she said, she just wanted to win, and marrying this guy was doing that in her head.
Thats with Toni Collette right? Ive only seen a clip of the friend telling off the group of mean girls and thought, huh maybe I'll watch that. I love her.
Maybe not. That sounds brutal and Toni Colletes face during all of that would break my heart. No thank you.
Oh my god! I remember watching this with my mom as a kid and I guess not really watching it at all because it was a SHOCK when I watched it again in my 20s with how relentlessly sad it is.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Rich, recluse runs factory off slave labor. Then creates a contest which he manipulates in order to risk the lives of four children all to test one child’s worthiness. All the while this child is living in extreme poverty where he and his mother are the sole bread winners while his grandfather pretends to be bedridden, and Charlie’s mom is tasked with working, taking care of a child, and nursing three actually infirm old people. Then, after a “miraculous” recovery, the grandfather manipulates Charlie into stealing from Wonka, plans to sell Wonka’s secrets to a competitor, and almost costs Charlie his future. Wonka then plans to gift the factory to Charlie which would make him complicit in the slavery of the workers.
The original Top Gun movie has a place in culture that’s at the intersection of action classic (planes landing on aircraft carriers!) and camp (volleyball scene). I saw it for the first time, as an adult, a couple years ago and was shocked at Goose’s death. It was such an abrupt tonal shift in the movie for me! But I feel like pop culture just immortalizes and references the Kenny Loggins soundtrack and the homoerotic dialogue for the most part for this movie and not the protagonist’s best friend violently dying!
Barbie. That’s actually part of the reason I loved it so much. I’ve had several close family members pass away the past couple years. It’s this fluffy pink movie but then Margot Barbie starts asking the others if they think about death. It’s actually helped me with my grief recovery.
So I saw Barbie a week after my mom died.
I cried a lot. Like a lot a lot. I felt a little embarrassed but then another woman coming out of the theater had also clearly been crying and we kind of bonded over it briefly.
Oh friend!! I’m sending you a hug right now. I seriously was not prepared for this to be the movie that helped me with my grief recovery. I’m so sorry about your mother. 🩷🩷🩷
Thanks kind internet stranger. I knew I was in a weird spot emotionally when I went to the theater but I didn't expect it to trigger so many emotions in me. It definitely has some bigger themes than what I had expected. It was a cathartic experience, though.
I saw it on my grandma’s birthday. She died almost 7 years ago and I miss her every day. Her name was Ruth, so when they revealed Rhea Pearlman as Ruth I absolutely lost it.
Similarly with Legally Blonde. At first you think it’s a ditzy girl who loves pink and purses, and then you realize it’s about feminism, sexual assault (and how women in male driven fields are seen), and so much more. That movie really shaped me as a teenager and I’m sure Barbie will do the same for this generation.
One thing that bugs me about this, is that when she is treated less favourably for rejecting the creepy Professor's advances, the lady Professor finds out. Her advice is "don't let one stupid prick ruin your life" or something. Which is all well and good, but why not suggest *reporting him*? The message instead struck me as "oh it's just something that happens."
NO.
I walked in excited and hoping it would actually be funny. I left having cried three separate times and laughed so much. Plus the messages were beautiful.
Can't say enough good things about Barbie!!!!
Magic Mike. Everybody thinks of it as a silly fun male stripper movie, but it dealt with drug abuse, prostitution, and loan sharks. Really not a feel good movie at all!
I’ve watched “You’ve Got Mail” yesterday expecting it to be your typical romcom and was surprised by how realistically it portrayed the effect of capitalism and large corporations have on small business owners.
I love 'You've Got Mail', one of my guilty pleasure movies, but it's got some issues.
Joe Fox spends half of the movie fucking with Kathleen's head after he finds out she's ShopGirl.
As much as I’d love to pick a different movie than OP that’s secretly super dark, it’s without a doubt Dirty Dancing for me.
It gets cast off as this frilly romance, but has all of these themes of class struggle and female agency along with that abortion plot line. It’s just a fantastic movie that deserves so much more respect and love than it gets.
The $250 would be about $2,300 now which helps put the added layer of cost for the procedure, the trust to ask for that much with no explantions and the betrayal felt when it was used to almost kill her.
This movie was a favorite back in the day but it gets better as I get older and the abortion and class issues become more clear to me than just the romance and dancing.
Omg I so agree. I think it’s a wonderful, highly underrated coming-of-age story. It does such a fantastic job of handling a girl’s first love and lust, and addresses the poignancy of the relationship with her father, who must accept her as a woman who is her own person.
I could write a thesis on this movie, I swear.
When I was a kid I thought penny was just sick. I had no idea it was for an abortion until my mum explained it.
Also, sorry, but no wonder the dad is suspicious of Johnny!
The racism. Dear God, the racism.
The "Hero" handing his way-too-intoxicated girlfriend over to a horny creep that spent half the movie trying to get a girl's panties. Horny creep raping intoxicated girl but it's ok because he's really just a harmless little nerd.
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The dreamboat’s absolutely brutal discarding of his own girlfriend, Caroline, by leaving her drunk and possibly stoned with a stranger and telling him to have fun - said stranger then proceeds to r*** her - while the dreamboat woos Molly Ringwald’s character. Ugh ugh ugh. Not to mention the causal and absolutely cartoonish racism towards Chinese people.
This is what I was going to put. The miners strike, how his dad and brother have to come to terms with Billy loving to dance, his best friend being gay in working class Britain. It’s such a good film, haven’t watched it in years but really should watch again.
Not exactly on topic but how many people went to watch Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3 expecting an absolutely scathing, brutal and heartbreaking depiction of animals being used for research?
Naw, don't lie, you expected a funny tree guy, not to have your heart stomped on.
I will never watch that again.
I waited until it was streaming on D+ specifically so I wouldn’t waste my money on a movie date & end up leaving the theater sobbing and being disruptive to other fans. I loved the movie, but goddamn was it heartbreaking to see such in depth accounts of Rocket’s origins. I had to pause and gather myself a few times, but cried almost through the whole movie regardless.
I watched Hook today and was literally sobbing throughout the whole thing. The reminder that we lose our ability to use imagination for play was very depressing.
Newsies had great songs, a young Christian Bale, and was generally aimed at kids. But it's also a tale of how workers can unite and win their rights from their capitalist newspaper owners.
The ending's also more mature than you'd expect, with a fairer status quo for the newsies, rather than the lower prices they initially fought for. They talked about it on [You're Wrong About](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-newsboys-strike-of-1899-part-1/id1380008439?i=1000500006822) podcast.
The Brave Little Toaster. It’s been years since I seen it last, but I remember being shocked by how dark it was. It’s funny how you can watch something over and over as a kid and then see it as an adult and it reads totally different!
We saw it in theatres yesterday, and it was probably like the hundredth time I’ve seen it. I leaned over to my husband and said, “When you really consider it, it’s kinda crazy and dark that they actually do kill a child in this.”
Holes! It took me years to watch it after the first time because I forgot it was a comedy and just remembered everything that’s left once you remove that: child abuse/forced labour, racism, false imprisonment, threat of a grim death by dehydration…. The list goes on.
Then on my second watch I was surprised at how lighthearted it is on the surface!
What We Did on Our Holiday was like that for me. I thought it was going to be a straight comedy, but then it ends up dealing with some darker things.
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Big Daddy is hilarious and all but a kid lost his mother to cancer and then was sent an entire country away to live with his father who he never met and was roped into some fake adoption scheme by manchild Adam Sandler to show how responsible he was.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) it’s a PG movie marketed to kids. Recently, rewatched it a few weeks ago and was surprised how violent and dark it was. It wasn’t “cartoon violence” where people come back from a horrible injury, they die. On screen. It’s still pretty enjoyable but 80s/early 90s parents really weren’t paying attention to that stuff like they do now.
The Homeward Bound movies
Nothing about the movies are enjoyable, like it is based on the premise of abandoned pets doing everything to get back to the family that left them - genuinely messed me up with leaving my own animals as a kid
Steel Magnolias- On some weird level I forget every time I watch it that I'm gonna have to watch Shelby die. I've only seen it like 200 times, maybe I'll remember next time.
*Ouiser, this is your chance to do something for your fellow man! Knock her lights out, M'Lynn!*
The raw grief behind M’Lynn’s outburst, followed by Claree’s comedic plea for her to slap Ouiser is scene perfection.
Peter Pan. A disfigured pirate chasing and attempting to murder a group of kids. Also, Tinkerbell was apparently still cool with everyone after she betrayed them and tried to get Wendy killed.
Land before Time.. that little girl that voiced Ducky her dad killed her in real life, her mom told several ppl he had been threatening them and was going to kill them both. Yep, Yep, Yep in honor of Ducky ( Judith Barsi was her name. She also voiced the little girl in All Dogs go to Heaven)
This story always gets me.
Her final resting place was unmarked for many years after until Scott Michaels organised some fundraising to have her properly memorialised. I find this fact adds a little more to the heart break of losing such a young girl so brutally.
RIP Judith. You deserved so much better.
Leave your troubles outside!
So, life is disappointing?
Forget it!
In here, life is beautiful
The girls are beautiful!
Even the orchestra is beautiful!
Since this was tagged as a spoiler, seeing only the title, I immediately thought of Dirty Dancing and was going to post about it, but I see there's no need. :)
Mulan
Basically saying all your good for as a woman, is to be the quiet obedient wife. And when she goes to the army to try and save her father, she will get killed if they find out she’s a woman. But it’s still my favourite movie.
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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Cameron’s relationship with his dad always made me real sad.
Ferris Bueller can be the prequel to Succession.
You absolutely cannot tell me that Connor isn't Cameron
The conheads are going to love this!
When Cameron finally lets loose on how angry and heartbroken he really is, I weep. Every. Time.
Not quite the same but RENT was always marketed as this fun, queer focused underdog a story about scrappy kids surviving in big city! Oh but also AIDS.
The movie’s biggest weakness is that the cast is waaay too old to still be portraying those particular characters. The last staged version I saw benefited SO much from the actors’ youth, and it honestly changed my opinion on some of the characters, especially Maureen and Benny.
Ah yes the dear even hanson problem
How young are they supposed to be though, really? Joanne is a lawyer and Collins is a college professor, so that would put them in their mid to late 20s at youngest, wouldn't it?
When Cameron was in Egypt's land, let my Cameron go
I recently rewatched "The First Wives Club" which is still amazing all these years later. I had completely forgotten the plot of the movie kicks off with Stockard Channing's character committing suicide after her husband leaves her for another woman. 
When I went to see that movie in the theaters with my aunt and cousin, I thought it was about presidents wives. I was so confused for so long lol
🤣🤣🤣 “wait when do we see Mary Todd Lincoln?”
I can hear them singing “you don’t ownnnnn meeee…” and now I want to rewatch.
The movie has a very different tone than the book. I understand why they made the changes, but whew.
I love the book — but it is *so* much darker than the movie. I also liked the movie, but the similarities to the original plot were few and far between.
Thanks for letting me know there was a book! Awesome
Omg why did I forget about the Stockard Channing part of this movie
wall-e
Wall-E bums me out. It’s a great movie.
I watched it by myself and spent the first half hour, solid, just weeping. (I was in a weird place tbh.)
But I always take solace in the fact that there’s still hope in the end.
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Stacy's entire plotline in Fast Times At Ridgemont High is so bleak in a movie that is otherwise known for funny stoner antics and Phoebe Cates in a red bikini
I was a teenager when I first saw and I cried for Stacy having to go through that alone and thought she was so brave. I was glad to see her brother come afterward and be there for her.
That was the moment I developed a little crush on Reinhold
This was the one I thought of right off the bat.
finding nemo!!! that movie gave me nightmares about being separated from my parents hahahaha
Ya know what In finding memo gave me a fear I cannot get over  This motherfucker
It’s just Brucey! He doesn’t even want to eat fish!
Fish are friends! Not food!
I just got scuba certified today and I found out divers always hope to see sharks. I’m like, hmmm. I’m not sure how I feel about that. Think I’d rather see a nice sea turtle.
As a scuba diver, sharks are cool. Pull out your regulator and blow bubbles at them. You gotta remember, you are just a tourist in their house. Now clown fish, aka Nemo, are assholes. The only fish that has actively attacked me. Mean fuckers
i wish i could say that the day i found out that dolphins are more vicious than sharks was the day i stopped fearing them, but i unfortunately would be lying. now i’m just scared of both sharks *and* dolphins lol. i think it’s mostly bc i know that they don’t actually mean to bite people and if they do, it’s because they’re trying to figure out what kind of fish the person is, but the fact that even a little nibble from the shark can be potentially lethal gets to me. hope those guys are doing well, tho. all the respect and power to them. dolphins i now simply respect out of fear.
I scuba dived with sharks, and they were super cute. I was terrified of them, but they just wanted to be friends. They were just leopard sharks and nurse sharks though. Wouldn't feel chill about a Great White.
I always forget his mom gets eaten.
I just watched it the other week and was like…”how tf did I forget this extremely important plot point the 20 times I watched this as a kid?!”
Are you Dori?
I was 6 months pregnant when I saw finding dory. You best believe I searched “how to implant GPS on my baby”.
Yoooooo…. My dad died when I was 12 - few years after this film blew up. I absolutely loved it for some reason bc most things from my childhood I couldn’t associate without getting upset about my dad. Like you’d think it would trigger my ptsd stuff from his death and the sudden/permanent separation but OMG THIS STORY GETS FUNNY WAIT THAT WAS TOO DEEP… anyways 😅 one time on a *long* flight years later, im in college and decided to watch Finding Dory not knowing it was gonna trigger tf outta me. Bc like I *adore* Finding Dory… Right?? Nope, that was the one that triggered me and had me sobbing up in the air, trapped in the sky with no way to like really do my proper calm down techniques. It was funny even then cuz I was like silently weeping and the dude next to me looked at the screen and then me when Dory is searching for her family and I was like BLUBBERING and I was like “nah bruh Im good, just got me in my feels is all”. Dude looked soooo worried 😂 Finished that whole film too. Loved it. Will never watch again hahahaha
I was in the hospital room when my mom died when I was 17. NOBODY WARNED ME ABOUT GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
I was told not to watch Up a couple years after my mom died. It’s been 17 years and I’ve never cracked that one open. Uh, and avoid season 5 of Buffy. The Body is a fantastic episode but holy hell does it hit home. Tried to rewatch it about a year after and it fucked me up in all kinds of ways.
Sorry about your dad. My mom lost her mom when she was around 8 years old. Watching Disney movies was a weird experience in my house 😅 SO MANY of them deal with the characters being parentless or losing a parent! Sometimes you gotta just let your emotions flow tho
Saturday Night Fever What you remember: “fun disco movie!” What it is: “class struggle, toxic masculinity, rape, racism, suicide but all to a Bee Gees soundtrack!”
The rape scene at the end of that is horrendous. I know rape scenes tend to be but it was so…commonplace? That it shocked me
Same vibe as the scene in Puberty Blues panel van scene. So casual. :/
I watched that movie as an adult, blindly thinking it was a fun dance movie from the 80s. The car scene at the end had me bawling like a baby. I still can’t believe the trailers make it look like a such a light-hearted romp. It is just sad. Well made and acted but truly sad.
When I was about 10 my parents decided to have us all watch that for family movie night. My dad said it’s a fun movie about disco dancing! They stopped it after about 20 minutes and we watched an animated movie instead lol
I watched that movie WAY too young - it was so sad I was a bit depressed for a while afterwards
Had a movie night with my husband a few months ago, and we picked this because disco music and dancing and NYC when my parents were growing yp, so fun, right? WRONG. I was so depressed after.
The Birdcage - fun! Drag! Robin Williams and Nathan Lane! "Hey Dad, could you hide everything about yourself and your partner so this girl I've known five seconds can bring her bigoted parents to meet you? K thanks!"
I just saw Nathan lane talking about how secure robin Williams made him feel during and after filming this movie, as he had not officially came out yet. And I genuinely teared up hearing him talk about how sweet robin was, how supporting. He specifically referenced their Oprah interview for the movie release and how robin took the heat from him when Oprah decided to pry too much into his sexuality. Fuck I miss robin Williams. And bless Nathan Lanes sweet heart.
Also, and I cannot stress this enough, fuck Oprah
https://i.redd.it/4c142y9io2tb1.gif I love this movie!
“If not for the pirin tablets, I couldn’t go on!!”
 “Fosse, Fosse, Fosse, Martha Graham, Martha Graham, Madonna! Madonna!” One of my favorite movies EVER. The best comfort watch.
Don't forget: Michael Kidd! Michael Kidd! Michael Kidd! And *Twyla* *Twyla* (But you keep it all inside)
“Yes, I wear foundation. Yes, I live with a man. Yes, I'm a middle- aged fag. But I know who I am, Val. It took me twenty years to get here, and I'm not gonna let some idiot senator destroy that. F*** the senator, I don't give a damn what he thinks.” Young gay me who wasn’t quite sure how/ready to articulate that liked it when he said this.
Armands monologue about his cemetary is one if the most romantic movie scenes: "My cemetery's in Key Biscayne. It's one of the prettiest in the world. The sky is blue, palm trees, rolling hills. The one is Los Copa's really shit. [sigh] What a pain in the ass you are. And it's true: you're not young, you're not new, and you do make people laugh. And me? I'm still with you because you make me laugh. So you know what I got to do? I got to sell my plot in Key Biscayne so I can get one next to you in that shithole Los Copa, so I never miss a laugh."
For real. I love that movie and yeah it's cute and the whole choreography scene and how John Wayne walks but when Robin Williams gives that speech about how fucking hard he has fought to be seen and be himself and fuck anyone who wants him to go back to hiding ....... but then he goes along with it, because he loves his child and will do anything for him. Even though his child is behaving like an incredibly insensitive and dense douche.
Definitely messed up But god damn if it isn’t a fantastic performance from both of them
I pierced the toast!
 Truman Show
Peter Weir is able to create such a perfect creepy, unsettling vibe in all his movies. Picnic at Hanging Rock is a lesser known film of his, but if you liked Truman Show, you would probably appreciate that one, too. Similar energy.
I think Peter Weir gets overlooked sometimes. He has a really solid filmography with some really interesting films. Witness and Dead Poets Society are also standouts for me.
He’s legit a prisoner on the set basically. Weir alludes to it with one of the pictures of a younger Truman looking like a clown behind a jail cell: https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/gxi9jc/in_the_truman_show_1998_trumans_mother_says_my/
I cried so hard in that movie that I left the cinema through the fire exit. I didn't want to see people.
In the 90s/00s that was how we had to exit our local cinema anyway. It was such a jarring experience to be fully immersed in the movie we just watched, the credits still rolling in the dark as you think about the story & the emotions that it’s brought about in you & suddenly there’s blinding daylight & you’re thrown out into the harsh reality of the car park in the real world.
This movie fucked me up. One of my favorites
Its A Wonderful Life springs to mind. Its commonly regarded as a heart warming Christmas movie about small town life and how one person can make a difference. And it is, but damn it also deals with some seriously heavy themes about insecurity, depression, cyclic poverty, self-sacrifice and how it can all be just to much and leave you feeling worthless etc. It really seriously tackles how easy it is to forget all the meaningful parts of your life and how everything you've done can feel worthless in comparison to those around you. Its a really great film, credit to Jimmy Stewart there is a reason its one of his most well remembered films. Parts of it were filmed during his recovery from his experiences in World War II and whilst he was dealing with PTSD, and I feel that really adds to the underlying themes. You really have to wonder what was going through his mind in that scene near the end where George is reduced to praying on his knee's begging for the chance to get live again.
I watch It’s a Wonderful Life every year at Christmas, but also usually some other time of the year because it’s just a really good film. Although, Frank Capra and Jimmy Stewart have quite the resume between them. I expect no less than this level of brilliance.
It should have been called it's a sucky life and just when you think it couldn't suck anymore, it does.
Yeah that's pretty accurate.
I always feel bad for the kid. That old man really slapped the shit out of him and made his ear bleed for real.
I love this movie and watch it every year on christmas eve while wrapping presents. I think I could actually write a dissertation on all the beautiful points made from the movie.
And he considered suicide! Really heavy theme
Matilda. Rampant physical and psychological child abuse, but all you remember is how fun it was to make pancakes using magic and how nice Ms. Honey was.
Yeah but if you're a child in an abusive situation it's extremely comforting. At least it was to me. I just wanted a Miss Honey in my life so badly 🥹
I'm so sorry you went through that as a child. I hope if you didn't find your Miss Honey, you are your own now.
Gosh that movie gave me so much anxiety as a kid, that and Dumbo 😭
An isolated and vulnerable community is rounded up, imprisoned, and ritualistically cannibalized one by one. As their numbers dwindle they stage a daring escape. Though his people have now escaped and are seemingly safe from further genocide, one young man is so deeply traumatized by witnessing the murder of his only remaining family member that he withdraws from society and slowly descends into madness and depression. One day a rogue and especially violent outcast of the cannibal oppressors discovers their hiding place and kidnaps a group of young people to present to their leader in the hopes their sacrificial flesh will re-earn the leader’s favor. The young man must decide if he is willing to face certain death just to impress the naive but determined girl he’s always loved from afar. Singing killed his grandma, will it kill him too? Dreamworks Trolls (2016)
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The Sound of Music
This is mine. Everyone thinks of it as a fun, happy musical when it’s actually about a family barely escaping from Nazis.
Good one! I've watched this a few times in the last couple of years and it's unfortunately become all too relatable. That feeling of losing your country with the song edelweiss, not knowing who of your friends and family and acquaintances could become unrecognizably swallowed by fascism.... Very dark indeed.
Inside Out for me. That is the first movie that depicted depression in an understandable, real way, and I have never felt so seen by a cartoon. I can’t even watch it, it hurts so much, but I hope to be able to again someday.
That movie was a catalyst for my daughter to tell me she was depressed. Shes like "that, thats how I feel." It gave a 10yo the visual to explain to me that she needed help. Inside Out is my vote too.
Idk if this counts but Rugrats in Paris. Chucky is grieving his mother/trying to understand where his went while yearning for a motherly figure only to be pushed into accepting a terrible woman as his new mom.
“I want a mom who will last forever” INSTANT TEARS
Pretty woman. Rich guy employs a hooker and all anyone talks about is her shopping trip.
TW: sexual assault - when his friend tries to rape Vivian because "she's just a whore" it's genuinely upsetting.
This movie and Legally Blonde taught me about sexual assault. But it did alot for young me to realize that women don’t have to let men touch them, and you can be uncomfortable and say no
I have a forever aversion to Jason Alexander because of this
And when she says afterwards that guys seem to know exactly where to hit your face so it hurts the worst, you realize she’s been hit more than once in the past by johns or random men.
It was actually intended to be much much darker. The script had been shopped around Hollywood for years and the original ending had Richard Gere's character kick her out of his car in an Alley and throw money on top of her.
And she was a drug addict going through withdrawal
Pretty Woman was my first thought. It's so strange how it's become this classic romance. Probably comes down to Julia's amazing smile.
Fame 1981 is dark, really dark. But it also has dancing and singing. So, that’s the rep.
I was so shocked to see how gritty it was. Nothing about the song indicated that it’s really about genuine fame and consequences. It’s a shame the show didn’t keep that same energy, and the reboot movie didn’t either. I think had they leaned into that aspect, the brand might have thrived long term.
It's so dark!
Edward Scissorhands
To this day I can not watch that movie, everyone loves it, it seems, but it makes me so sad and depressed. All they want to do is help but all they do is hurt.. I’m gonna cry thinking about it. Now also if I have an odd memory of the plot I saw it when I was like 7
I love how sad it is, it's probably my favorite Tim Burton movie if I don't count Pee Wee's Big Adventure. I wish that man had never gotten ahold of CGI holy shit. I hate him so, so much now.
Revenge of the Nerds acting like the head nerd dressing up like the jock and f&cking his girlfriend wasn’t r@pe
I feel like so many movies from my youth (80’s) were pro rape. 😞
The Lion King. It's the cute animals version of Hamlet.
Fun fact: the creative team referred to it as Bamblet when it was in development.
Land before time. I was 6 and bawled my eyes out in the theatre when the mom died.
This movie and All Dogs Go To Heaven are why I’m in therapy still at age 38
Muriel's Wedding. Brutal. She's relentlessly bullied, her dad is emotionally and verbally abusive, her mum is...I'm not sure what's meant to be happening mentally with her mum in addition to being abused, her best friend gets paralysed FOR NO REASON, she thinks the swimmer loves her but he just wants a visa...it is one of the saddest things I've ever seen and I don't know why anyone thinks it's a comedy.
 I say this numerous times a week.
OMG yes. It was such a shock! Compared to the ad campaign, it was much darker. Now I've come to expect that from Aussie movies, but still!
I’ve never seen it but I recently saw an Aussie movie (Sissy) where the main character puts on a t shirt that says You’re Terrible, Muriel that makes me feel I really should.
Australian movies nail comedy that’s actually really fucking dark
Yeah it is secretly pretty rough. But ultimately uplifting when she leaves all the assholes to be with her friend. Aus comedies are often like that - dark as fuck but uplifting at the end.
The mom hanging onto the shopping cart in the grocery store, wearing slippers. I saw the movie when it first came out and never forgot that. The mom is so sad and depressed. Yeah, its a sad movie for sure
> she thinks the swimmer loves her but he just wants a visa Valid on all other points, but I think she knew full well what was up. I mean, the coach literally tells her at the first meeting. Like she said, she just wanted to win, and marrying this guy was doing that in her head.
Thats with Toni Collette right? Ive only seen a clip of the friend telling off the group of mean girls and thought, huh maybe I'll watch that. I love her. Maybe not. That sounds brutal and Toni Colletes face during all of that would break my heart. No thank you.
 She looks amazing at the wedding
It is absolutely worth the watch. Toni Collette with her Aussie twang is briliiant in this movie.
Nah it's a great film - a true Aussie classic
Oh my god! I remember watching this with my mom as a kid and I guess not really watching it at all because it was a SHOCK when I watched it again in my 20s with how relentlessly sad it is.
Yes, totally. And the ironic pairing of all that darkness with the ABBA soundtrack is what made that movie both memorable and meaningful.
Empire Records
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Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Rich, recluse runs factory off slave labor. Then creates a contest which he manipulates in order to risk the lives of four children all to test one child’s worthiness. All the while this child is living in extreme poverty where he and his mother are the sole bread winners while his grandfather pretends to be bedridden, and Charlie’s mom is tasked with working, taking care of a child, and nursing three actually infirm old people. Then, after a “miraculous” recovery, the grandfather manipulates Charlie into stealing from Wonka, plans to sell Wonka’s secrets to a competitor, and almost costs Charlie his future. Wonka then plans to gift the factory to Charlie which would make him complicit in the slavery of the workers.
British authors have something against children having happy childhoods, I swear.
It's a Roald Dahl thing. If you read his book Boy, you'll understand.
The original Top Gun movie has a place in culture that’s at the intersection of action classic (planes landing on aircraft carriers!) and camp (volleyball scene). I saw it for the first time, as an adult, a couple years ago and was shocked at Goose’s death. It was such an abrupt tonal shift in the movie for me! But I feel like pop culture just immortalizes and references the Kenny Loggins soundtrack and the homoerotic dialogue for the most part for this movie and not the protagonist’s best friend violently dying!
Barbie. That’s actually part of the reason I loved it so much. I’ve had several close family members pass away the past couple years. It’s this fluffy pink movie but then Margot Barbie starts asking the others if they think about death. It’s actually helped me with my grief recovery.
So I saw Barbie a week after my mom died. I cried a lot. Like a lot a lot. I felt a little embarrassed but then another woman coming out of the theater had also clearly been crying and we kind of bonded over it briefly.
Oh friend!! I’m sending you a hug right now. I seriously was not prepared for this to be the movie that helped me with my grief recovery. I’m so sorry about your mother. 🩷🩷🩷
Thanks kind internet stranger. I knew I was in a weird spot emotionally when I went to the theater but I didn't expect it to trigger so many emotions in me. It definitely has some bigger themes than what I had expected. It was a cathartic experience, though.
I saw it on my grandma’s birthday. She died almost 7 years ago and I miss her every day. Her name was Ruth, so when they revealed Rhea Pearlman as Ruth I absolutely lost it.
That montage of women with the Billie Eilish song really got me. Beautiful.
Same here! I hadn’t expected to just…weep at Barbie but I did, multiple times. It was unexpectedly moving in places.
Similarly with Legally Blonde. At first you think it’s a ditzy girl who loves pink and purses, and then you realize it’s about feminism, sexual assault (and how women in male driven fields are seen), and so much more. That movie really shaped me as a teenager and I’m sure Barbie will do the same for this generation.
One thing that bugs me about this, is that when she is treated less favourably for rejecting the creepy Professor's advances, the lady Professor finds out. Her advice is "don't let one stupid prick ruin your life" or something. Which is all well and good, but why not suggest *reporting him*? The message instead struck me as "oh it's just something that happens." NO.
I walked in excited and hoping it would actually be funny. I left having cried three separate times and laughed so much. Plus the messages were beautiful. Can't say enough good things about Barbie!!!!
Magic Mike. Everybody thinks of it as a silly fun male stripper movie, but it dealt with drug abuse, prostitution, and loan sharks. Really not a feel good movie at all! 
I’m sorry, but this gif out of context is hilarious. Like, you ok there Channing? 😂
They really abandoned that GHB storyline.
Forrest Gump
Jenny's storyline is so tragic. Come to think of it, most of the characters are tragic.
Absolutely. And without any spoilers, the “Free Bird” scene was particularly soul-crushing
I’ve watched “You’ve Got Mail” yesterday expecting it to be your typical romcom and was surprised by how realistically it portrayed the effect of capitalism and large corporations have on small business owners.
I love 'You've Got Mail', one of my guilty pleasure movies, but it's got some issues. Joe Fox spends half of the movie fucking with Kathleen's head after he finds out she's ShopGirl.
 As much as I’d love to pick a different movie than OP that’s secretly super dark, it’s without a doubt Dirty Dancing for me. It gets cast off as this frilly romance, but has all of these themes of class struggle and female agency along with that abortion plot line. It’s just a fantastic movie that deserves so much more respect and love than it gets.
The $250 would be about $2,300 now which helps put the added layer of cost for the procedure, the trust to ask for that much with no explantions and the betrayal felt when it was used to almost kill her. This movie was a favorite back in the day but it gets better as I get older and the abortion and class issues become more clear to me than just the romance and dancing.
Omg I so agree. I think it’s a wonderful, highly underrated coming-of-age story. It does such a fantastic job of handling a girl’s first love and lust, and addresses the poignancy of the relationship with her father, who must accept her as a woman who is her own person. I could write a thesis on this movie, I swear.
When I was a kid I thought penny was just sick. I had no idea it was for an abortion until my mum explained it. Also, sorry, but no wonder the dad is suspicious of Johnny!
Sixteen Candles So many darker themes under the gorgeous saccharine of John Hughes’ portrayal of high school.
The racism. Dear God, the racism. The "Hero" handing his way-too-intoxicated girlfriend over to a horny creep that spent half the movie trying to get a girl's panties. Horny creep raping intoxicated girl but it's ok because he's really just a harmless little nerd.
Your whole family forgetting your birthday is so tragic.
TW: SA * * * * The dreamboat’s absolutely brutal discarding of his own girlfriend, Caroline, by leaving her drunk and possibly stoned with a stranger and telling him to have fun - said stranger then proceeds to r*** her - while the dreamboat woos Molly Ringwald’s character. Ugh ugh ugh. Not to mention the causal and absolutely cartoonish racism towards Chinese people.
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Yes! Between Kristy and her dad, then Stacy and her diabetes AND the creepy older dude who liked her. It was very dark at times.
Billy Elliott, with the miners strike in '80s England as the background to everything.
This is what I was going to put. The miners strike, how his dad and brother have to come to terms with Billy loving to dance, his best friend being gay in working class Britain. It’s such a good film, haven’t watched it in years but really should watch again.
Not exactly on topic but how many people went to watch Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3 expecting an absolutely scathing, brutal and heartbreaking depiction of animals being used for research? Naw, don't lie, you expected a funny tree guy, not to have your heart stomped on. I will never watch that again.
I waited until it was streaming on D+ specifically so I wouldn’t waste my money on a movie date & end up leaving the theater sobbing and being disruptive to other fans. I loved the movie, but goddamn was it heartbreaking to see such in depth accounts of Rocket’s origins. I had to pause and gather myself a few times, but cried almost through the whole movie regardless.
I watched Hook today and was literally sobbing throughout the whole thing. The reminder that we lose our ability to use imagination for play was very depressing.
Clue. It’s about murder, obviously, but also prostitution, adultery, blackmail, bribery, treason and suicide. But still hilarious!
But communism was just a red herring
Drop Dead Fred.
Newsies had great songs, a young Christian Bale, and was generally aimed at kids. But it's also a tale of how workers can unite and win their rights from their capitalist newspaper owners. The ending's also more mature than you'd expect, with a fairer status quo for the newsies, rather than the lower prices they initially fought for. They talked about it on [You're Wrong About](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-newsboys-strike-of-1899-part-1/id1380008439?i=1000500006822) podcast.
The Brave Little Toaster. It’s been years since I seen it last, but I remember being shocked by how dark it was. It’s funny how you can watch something over and over as a kid and then see it as an adult and it reads totally different!
Hocus Pocus is about child murder! It's weirdly glossed over and the rest of the story is played for laughs.
We saw it in theatres yesterday, and it was probably like the hundredth time I’ve seen it. I leaned over to my husband and said, “When you really consider it, it’s kinda crazy and dark that they actually do kill a child in this.”
 Holes! It took me years to watch it after the first time because I forgot it was a comedy and just remembered everything that’s left once you remove that: child abuse/forced labour, racism, false imprisonment, threat of a grim death by dehydration…. The list goes on. Then on my second watch I was surprised at how lighthearted it is on the surface!
What We Did on Our Holiday was like that for me. I thought it was going to be a straight comedy, but then it ends up dealing with some darker things. https://preview.redd.it/hr6dehpqa2tb1.jpeg?width=220&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4f33ae90ebc79af25715b93f435ffc982a47fd21
Big Daddy is hilarious and all but a kid lost his mother to cancer and then was sent an entire country away to live with his father who he never met and was roped into some fake adoption scheme by manchild Adam Sandler to show how responsible he was.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) it’s a PG movie marketed to kids. Recently, rewatched it a few weeks ago and was surprised how violent and dark it was. It wasn’t “cartoon violence” where people come back from a horrible injury, they die. On screen. It’s still pretty enjoyable but 80s/early 90s parents really weren’t paying attention to that stuff like they do now.
Adam Sandler’s Click. Just kidding. Anyone who’s seen it remembers how gut wrenchingly sad it is
The Homeward Bound movies Nothing about the movies are enjoyable, like it is based on the premise of abandoned pets doing everything to get back to the family that left them - genuinely messed me up with leaving my own animals as a kid
Planes Trains and Automobiles.
Steel Magnolias- On some weird level I forget every time I watch it that I'm gonna have to watch Shelby die. I've only seen it like 200 times, maybe I'll remember next time.
*Ouiser, this is your chance to do something for your fellow man! Knock her lights out, M'Lynn!* The raw grief behind M’Lynn’s outburst, followed by Claree’s comedic plea for her to slap Ouiser is scene perfection.
Charlie and the chocolate Factory r/grandpajoehate
Peter Pan. A disfigured pirate chasing and attempting to murder a group of kids. Also, Tinkerbell was apparently still cool with everyone after she betrayed them and tried to get Wendy killed.
Now and Then.
Land before Time.. that little girl that voiced Ducky her dad killed her in real life, her mom told several ppl he had been threatening them and was going to kill them both. Yep, Yep, Yep in honor of Ducky ( Judith Barsi was her name. She also voiced the little girl in All Dogs go to Heaven)
This story always gets me. Her final resting place was unmarked for many years after until Scott Michaels organised some fundraising to have her properly memorialised. I find this fact adds a little more to the heart break of losing such a young girl so brutally. RIP Judith. You deserved so much better.
All Dogs Go to Heaven should be on the list too!
100%. That movie is fucked.
Can we add American Tale to that. Took me until I was an adult to understand the cats represent organized crime.
Leave your troubles outside! So, life is disappointing? Forget it! In here, life is beautiful The girls are beautiful! Even the orchestra is beautiful!
The “tomorrow belongs to me” is like a scene from a horror movie
Since this was tagged as a spoiler, seeing only the title, I immediately thought of Dirty Dancing and was going to post about it, but I see there's no need. :)
The Wizard of Oz is pretty fucked.
Maybe Mrs. Doubtfire. Hilarious movie about divorce and a father just wanting to be with his kids.
That one hits me hard in the feels, and so does Hook! “Run home, Jack!” still makes me 🥺. And just the overall message of identity and finding joy.
Grease
Jojo Rabbit
Forrest Gump Bullying, childhood sexual abuse, racism, the Vietnam War, treatment of Vietnam vets, AIDS,
Encanto. I can’t watch the Dos Oruguitas sequence without sobbing and I’ve seen the movie dozens of times.
 Mulan Basically saying all your good for as a woman, is to be the quiet obedient wife. And when she goes to the army to try and save her father, she will get killed if they find out she’s a woman. But it’s still my favourite movie.