Movies (better ones in bold, all are at least pretty good)
| The Help |
| Mrs. Henderson Presents |
| Merry Christmas |
| Something the Lord Made |
| The Young Victoria |
| Letters to Juliet |
| Red |
| Adam |
| Taking Chance |
| Sliding Doors |
| Shadowlands |
| Leap Year |
| The Blind Side |
| Taking Woodstock |
| Invictus |
| Departures |
| Temple Grandin |
| On a Clear Day |
| Little Women |
| Dan in Real Life |
| Captain Abu Raed |
| The Jane Austen Book Club |
| The Men Who Stare at Goats |
| The Boy in the Striped Pajamas |
| The Answer Man |
| Saint Ralph |
| The Butterfly |
| The Reading Room |
| Return to Me |
| A Rather English Marriage |
| The Constant Gardener |
| The Soloist |
| Goodnight, Mister Tom |
| Outsourced |
| Arranged |
Long Time Favorites
Strangers in Good Company
Enchanted April
The Russians Are Coming!
In the Spirit
Ruthless People
Shirley Valentine
Cold Comfort Farm
My Cousin Vinny
Love Potion No.9
TV shows (better ones in bold, often better to watch on Amazon and Netflix since they don't take so much time)
Dharma and Greg
Cheers
Wings
Ballykissangel
Foyle's War
Grey's Anatomy
The Guardian
Drop Dead Diva
Rosemary and Thyme
Great Courses from The Teaching Company
| Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths of Language Usage |
| Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer's Craft |
| Great Minds of the Eastern Intellectual Tradition |
| Why Evil Exists |
| Thinking like an Economist: A Guide to Rational Decision Maki... |
| Francis of Assisi |
| Great Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt |
| Mr. Lincoln: The Life of Abraham Lincoln |
| Modern Intellectual Tradition: From Descartes to Derrida |
We take many of suggestions of "Movies for Grown-ups" articles, from AARP. Our friend uses "Rotten Tomatoes" for his choices.
Audiobooks are important to us, too. We get ours from Audible.com, now part of Amazon. We download both audio Great Courses and audiobooks from Audible and listen on our iPods. I very highly recommend the audiobook "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry" by Rachel Joyce. I wrote a review with as high a recommendation as I could think of.
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Bill
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