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Films that lift your spirit, make you laugh or generally feel good.

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Bridget Jones - The Edge Of Reason

More desire for love and respect with a little danger and adventure thrown in for good measure.

Bridget Jones - The Edge Of Reason on DVD (2004)
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Renee Zellweger, Gemma Jones
Director: Beeban Kidron
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Same Bridget, but brand new diary. Having finally found the perfect man in gorgeous lawyer Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), 30-something ex-singleton Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) is now faced with the even bigger challenge of keeping him. When her self-doubts return and her womanising ex-lover Daniel ..read more »
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Four Weddings And A Funeral

Lots of romance, lots of weddings and oh a funeral. You must have seen it anyway.

Four Weddings And A Funeral on DVD (1993)
Starring: Rowan A, Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell
Director: Mike Newell
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This hugely popular comedy established Hugh Grant as Hollywood's favourite bumbling Brit and garnered Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Richard Curtis' screenplay. Shy Londoner Charles (Grant) meets American Carrie (Andie MacDowell) at a friend's wedding and enjoys a one-night stand with her. ..read more »
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Dirty Dancing

Teenage Romance, holiday dreams, dance heaven all about to go horribly wrong when....

Dirty Dancing on DVD (1987)
Starring: Wayne Knight, Max Cantor, Wayne
Director: Emile Ardolino
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Decade-defining box office smash starring Patrick Swayze in one of his most famous roles. Frances 'Baby' Houseman (Jennifer Grey) is a teenage girl on holiday with her family at a resort in the Catskill Mountains. Stumbling upon an off-limits employees-only party, she witnesses the staff getting ..read more »
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Shrek 2

Shrek 2 on DVD (2004)
Starring: Mike Myers, Antonio Banderas, Rupert Everett
Director: Kelly Asbury, Andrew Adamson, Conrad Vernon
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Sequel to the 2001 computer-animated children's smash hit comedy 'Shrek'. Shrek (Mike Myers) returns from his honeymoon with his bride Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz) to find an invitation from Fiona's parents, King Harold (John Cleese) and Queen Lilian (Julie Andrews) asking the newlyweds over to ..read more »
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What better way to feel good than to find out that the deepest darkest forest contains the most horrible and terrifying OGRE, who actually is the nicest, kindest, funniester ogre and not terrible and the PRINCESS, is not really a prin....

Shrek on DVD (2001)
Starring: Mike Myers, John Lithgow, Vincent Cassel
Director: Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson
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Post-modern animated comedy-fantasy. Shrek (Mike Myers) is a reclusive ogre living in a swamp on the edges of a fairytale kingdom. The vain yet diminutive ruler of the land, Prince Fahrquaad (John Lithgow) decides to streamline his kingdom by getting rid of all the fairytale characters who promptly ..read more »
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The Shawshank Redemption

A film about belief and inner strength against the odds.

The Shawshank Redemption on DVD (1994)
Starring: James Whitmore, Morgan Freeman, Mark Rolston
Director: Frank Darabont
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In 1946, a banker named Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is convicted of a double murder, even though he stubbornly proclaims his innocence. He's sentenced to a life term at the Shawshank State Prison in Maine, where another lifer, Ellis Red Redding (Morgan Freeman), picks him as the new recruit most ..read more »
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Short Circuit

Short Circuit on DVD (1986)
Starring: Ally Sheedy, Austin Pendleton, G.W. Bailey
Director: John Badham
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Struck by lightning, an endearing little robot known only as Number 5 escapes from an experimental electronics firm. Technician Steve Guttenberg and his indecipherable East Indian assistant Fisher Stevens set out to locate Number 5 before the military can go through with its plans to destroy the ..read more »
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Fly Away Home

Great family movies about determination and hope and the unusal relationship between human and wildlife.

Fly Away Home on DVD (1996)
Starring: Anna Paquin, Terry Kinney, Jeff Daniels
Director: Carroll Ballard
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After spending nine years apart, 13-year-old Amy (Anna Paquin) and her father Thomas (Jeff Daniels) are finally reunited. But things don't go smoothly at first, and while Thomas spends all his time testing a lightweight aircraft he has built, Amy finds solace with the geese nesting in a nearby lake...read more »
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Love Actually

Does not need an introduction. Who hasn't seen it?

Love Actually on DVD (2003)
Starring: Joanna Page, Lucia Moniz, a
Director: Richard Curtis
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Richard Curtis (writer of 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' and 'Notting Hill') turns his hand to directing with this British rom-com. Eight stories involving the love lives of more than a dozen characters are brought together over one Christmas and climax on Christmas Eve; from the recent widower ..read more »
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Bridget Jones's Diary

What woman cannot empathise with Bridget? The desire to be loved and respected all wrapped up in some tremendous fun.

Bridget Jones's Diary on DVD (2001)
Starring: Sally Phillips, Honor Blackman, Jim Broadbent
Director: Sharon Maguire
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Pity poor Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger). She's the 1990s British everywoman: single, weight-obsessed, and very probably drunk on mid-price white wine. Her life goes from middling to worse when she embarks on a doomed affair with silver-tongued boss Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant). In the background ..read more »
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