On my Facebook wall appeared a question thrown out serendipitously:

“What movie could you watch over and over again?”

Had this been reddit, the post probably would have hit the front page. People chimed in from everywhere, and I decided to compile a list. What I discovered was that many of the ones mentioned were also on my best-beloved list (marked with a star) and that now I have an entire raft of ones I need to see, so I can judge for myself.

• 16 Candles
• A Christmas Story
• A Walk to Remember
• Anne of Green Gables 
• Back to the Future 
• Breakfast Club
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (I prefer the original with Gene Wilder) 
• Christine
• Christmas Vacation
• Clueless
• Connie and Carla
• Dances with Wolves 
• Dirty Dancing 
• Dr. Zhivago
• Driving Miss Daisy 
• Elf
• Emma
• Exotic Marigold Hotel
• Facing the Giants
• Finding Nemo
• Flash Gordon
• Footloose
• Freaky Friday (remake)
• GardenState
• Godfather I and II 
• Grease 
• Groundhog Day 
• Harry Potter (any) 
• It’s a Wonderful Life 
• Ladyhawke
• Last Holiday  (You and I, we know the secret to life. It’s butter.)
• Little Women 
• Lonesome Dove
• Love Actually
• Madagascar 2
• Miracle on 34th Street (remake)
• Moonstruck
• Mrs. Doubtfire 
• Poison Ivy
• Practical Magic 
• Pretty Woman
• Pride and Prejudice
• Princess Bride  (One does not tamper with perfection.)
• Return To Me 
• Sabrina  (both versions)
• Secretariat 
• Sense and Sensibility 
• Shawshank Redemption
• Sound of Music 
• Star Wars  (Yes, I even like the prequels. Sosumi.)
• Stardust  (That’s alright, Cap’n, we always knew you was a whoopsie.)
• Steel Magnolias
• Sweet HomeAlabama
• Terror from the year 5000 (SciFi B-flick with a good message. Cheesy but a favorite.)
• The Help 
• The Man from SnowyRiver
• The Notebook 
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• The Wedding Planner
• To Sir with Love 
• Tombstone
• Trains, Planes and Automobiles
• What Happens in Vegas
• When Harry Met Sally
• While You Were Sleeping 
• White Christmas 
• Wizard of Oz 

And a collection of others from my own favorites (certainly not complete, but for no good reason):

• A Beautiful Mind
• Avatar
• Bicentennial Man
• Brave
• Braveheart
• Brewster’s Millions
• Capricorn One
• Children of Men
• Dark Knight series
• Enemy Mine
• Equilibrium
• Face Off
• Fahrenheit 451
• Fantasia
• Fantasia 2000
• First Wives Club
• For Richer or Poorer (Now, let’s go scrub the kitchen floor! Ooh, can we??)
• Frequency (Wife reminded me about this one!)
• Galaxy Quest (Oh, that’s not right!)
• Gattaca
• Ghost Dad (It’s Edith, and it’s a boy’s name!)
• Good Will Hunting
• Guarding Tess (Nic Cage’s greatest film, if you ask me)
• Heart and Souls (Make a difference before the bus comes for you.)
• Heaven can Wait (either version)
• Hidalgo (Omar Sharif was awesome)
• High Road to China (I love Tom Selleck)
• Indiana Jones (even “nuking the fridge”)
• Kramer vs. Kramer
• La Dame Folle de Chaillot / The Madwoman of Chaillot
• La Strada (a Fellini masterpiece) 
• Lawrence of Arabia (breathtaking!)
• Les 400 Coups (Truffaut: Dark and poignant) 
• Letters from Iwo Jima
• Lilies of the Field
• Lord of the Rings 
• Michael Collins
• Miss Congeniality 1
• Mr. Baseball
• Murder by Death (Alec Guinness vs. Nancy Walker – priceless!)
• Newsies
• Out of Africa
• Patch Adams
• Pay it Forward
• Pete’s Dragon (because Maine)
• Pinocchio (Disney’s 2D masterpiece)
• Quigley Down Under
• Ratatouille
• Robin Hood (Costner)
• Saving Grace (Tom Conti, 1986) 
• Schindler’s List
• Secret of Roan Inish
• Silver Streak
• Sneakers
• Soylent Green
• Star Trek (Any and all, even No. 5.)
• Stargate
• Tangled
• The 5th Element
• The 6th Sense (even if I know the ending)
• The Associate
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• The Day the Earth Stood Still (Original version, of course)
• The Frisco Kid
• The Good Earth (Paul Muni)
• The Green Mile 
• The Irishman (Scorsese’s latest triumph. On a par with “The Godfather”
• The Kid
• The Last Samurai
• The Legend of Bagger Vance
• The Man in the Iron Mask
• The Mask of Zorro
• The Patriot
• The Peaceful Warrior
• The Pianist
• The Ultimate Gift
• Tootsie
• Toy Story (all)
• War Games
• Young Frankenstein
• You’ve Got Mail