What movie would you like to live in?

[Anonymous]

It’s a Wonderful Life

I’d love to have the close knit community with the big old houses and neat little downtown. I’ve moved from DC and gotten closer to that aesthetic but the everyone growing up together closeness is hard to replicate.

[Anonymous]

Meet Me in St. Louis is good for that, too.

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Anonymous wrote:A Room with a View

I just watched that again the other night, first time in decades. I’d almost forgotten how beautiful Julian Sands was, no wonder I loved him as a teen. He died hiking in the mountains in California last winter.

Would you live in the Italy scenes or the England scenes, or both?

Both. I'd be swept off my feet in a field of Italian wheat, and swoon in the English countryside.

[Anonymous]

Sophia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, before the revolution.

[Anonymous]

Much Ado About Nothing

Roman Holiday

Amelie

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s a Wonderful Life

I’d love to have the close knit community with the big old houses and neat little downtown. I’ve moved from DC and gotten closer to that aesthetic but the everyone growing up together closeness is hard to replicate.

I feel that way about A Christmas Story too.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A Room with a View

I just watched that again the other night, first time in decades. I’d almost forgotten how beautiful Julian Sands was, no wonder I loved him as a teen. He died hiking in the mountains in California last winter.

Would you live in the Italy scenes or the England scenes, or both?

Sands is great (and hot) in The Killing Fields, too! But I did not want to live in that movie.

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Anonymous wrote:The entire Sound of Music setting

Minus the Nazis

Yes of course without all of that.
I like the house, the
orchards, the road leading to the house, where they bike, all of that, so romantic.

[Anonymous]

The nantucket cottage in the early marriage of "War of the Roses" . In my fantasy, we would have made a life in that cottage and not moved on to the war and the big house/big corporate career. Just a simple life on nantucket.

[Anonymous]

My Neighbor Totoro, of course

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My Neighbor Totoro, of course

Aww that movie is so cute!

[Anonymous]

Lady and the Tramp. Such a cute little Victorian village.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ET when they’re in Elliot’s house or riding bikes in the neighborhood or Fast Times at Ridgemont High during the mall scenes.

My heart aches for that period of the 80s. 80s malls were so specific and awful but I loved them. There are bits of North Park in Dallas and South Coast Plaza in CA that retain some of that charm if you know where to look.

The details and lighting in Elliot’s house are so similar to my back door neighbors’ house growing up even though I grew up in the Midwest, not CA. And I have strong memories of wearing clothes like that and riding bikes on newly built cul de sacs to nearby woods. And the brown louvered doors and dark kitchens and stained glass lights. Sigh.

My DH teases me because he thinks I cry for ET every time- I’m crying because the way that time look and felt to me as a kid is gone except for in family photos and that movie.

I don't know if I would want to live in them, but I feel this kind of sentiment and heartache for certain 80s movies too. The Goonies, Big, Mr. Mom, Savannah Smiles

I would live in the Vermont house and town in Baby Boom (a less-mentioned Meyers/Shyer movie!)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Father of the Bride

My parents almost bought that house (ended up buying one on another nearby street, which is the house I grew up in).

[Anonymous]

Mary Poppins