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I was holding on to that as my sole suggestion...then forgot! And I agree with the Marx Brothers. We went to see one at a local theater and there were dozens of kids. Some others I love.
For little ones
The Snowman animated short
The Muppet Movie
Charlotte's Web
Babe
Chicken Run
For medium ones
E.T.
The Goonies
My Girl
Home Alone
Searching for Bobby Fischer
The Bad News Bears
Mirrormask
Gormenghast
Stand By Me
For big ones
Step Into Liquid
Europa Europa
Big
Some Like it Hot
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Pan's Labyrinth
Pathfinder (Ofelas)
American History X
I'm forwarding this to every Gen Xer I know. Once I stop crying. When's the last time we cried this much out of happiness and hope?
I've been trying to articulate this for 20 years. Impotent diatribes and a growing annoyance with Oliver Stone was all I could come up with. I settled for Ed Kowalczyk from the band Live's assertion that "Free love is a world I can't linger too long in/"free love" was just another party for the hippies to ruin".
But we longed for it and searched for our own: Live Aid, my first U2 concert, the Clinton years, Al Gore...We went underground, embracing technology, entrepeneurship, premature nostalgia, indie DIY culture, neo nuclear families.
You're so right Heather. We were just waiting. Yeah, our kids will think we are idiotic, and maybe we'll all fail miserably. I don't care. We're going to try like hell and not be afraid anymore.
