What movie would you like to live in?

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Anonymous wrote:You’ve Got Mail

I thought this! And the beach house in Somethings Gotta Give .

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Not a movie, but Big Little Lies. I swoon at the opening credits with her driving over that bridge. In those houses- ahhh. I absolutely love Monterey, Carmel etc

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Anonymous wrote:Lady and the Tramp. Such a cute little Victorian village.

Those mid-century animated Disneys had a way with making their real-world settings look great. 101 Dalmatian and The Aristocats both look live-in-able, too.

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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 left that small community to come to DC. It's not all that for everyone.

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Anonymous wrote:You’ve Got Mail

I thought this! And the beach house in Somethings Gotta Give .

YES!

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Zsa zsa’s penthouse before she decamps for the country (ok, not a movie, but still…)

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OP, do you literally mean in which movie do I want to be in just the house/setting? Or do you also mean jump into the plot/imaginary lifestyle of the characters?

Because for example I’d name Big Little Lies if it is the first premise, but never would I answer BLL if it is the second premise.

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Fried Green Tomatoes! The early part in Whistle Stop, not the modern part.

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Anonymous wrote:The Shire in LOTR. So comfy and cozy and homey.

+1. Rivendell would be ok too.

Or if I can't be a hobbit, I'd take the original Star Trek movies were everyone is enlightened in the future and lives harmoniously. (Except the bad guys, but they lose so it's ok.)

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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!)

Seriously underrated- good call. In grad school I basically lived in the set of Baby Boom. It was a lovely break from real life but the houses are freezing.

Still, I love that 1980s New England farmhouse aesthetic. Martha Stewart’s kitchen in her earliest cookbooks have the same vibe. Give me some exposed brick, a clay tile or wood floor, and a bunch of baskets hanging from the ceiling and I’m a happy woman.