Looking for "A Few Good Movies"
August 5, 2019 7:28 PM Subscribe
I love the movie "A Few Good Men." I love that wrongs are righted and justice is wittily served. All the while Tom Cruise's character grows into a lawyer and a much better man. I appreciate that although the movie is a murder trial the movie itself is not crass or disturbing. What other movies would I like? For reference, I could not care less about team sports but I enjoy feel-good football movies also.
Erin Brokovich
posted by windbox at 7:35 PM on August 5, 2019 [6 favorites]
posted by windbox at 7:35 PM on August 5, 2019 [6 favorites]
Aaron Sorkin (of West Wing fame) wrote A Few Good Men. I enjoy his writing style regardless of the topic. I'd watch all his movies again, but particularly Charlie Wilson's War, Moneyball, and Molly's Game.
posted by Barnifer at 7:38 PM on August 5, 2019 [3 favorites]
posted by Barnifer at 7:38 PM on August 5, 2019 [3 favorites]
Another vote for Spotlight. Although it deals with sexual abuse, the abuse is never shown (although it is described). The focus is on the journalistic detective work and trying to get justice. It’s a really good film.
posted by bookmammal at 7:39 PM on August 5, 2019 [3 favorites]
posted by bookmammal at 7:39 PM on August 5, 2019 [3 favorites]
My Cousin Vinny
posted by soelo at 7:39 PM on August 5, 2019 [14 favorites]
posted by soelo at 7:39 PM on August 5, 2019 [14 favorites]
Seconding Moneyball, even if you couldn't care less about baseball or Brad Pitt. (Bonus: baby Chris Pratt before he was CHRIS PRATT.)
posted by BlahLaLa at 7:56 PM on August 5, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by BlahLaLa at 7:56 PM on August 5, 2019 [1 favorite]
+ to Moneyball
+ to Spotlight
+ to Erin Brockovich
These are movies I watch again and again. (A Few Good Men, too. I love this thread.)
Some others that might do it for you:
A Civil Action
Kramer vs Kramer
The Kings Speech
Miss Sloane
October Sky
Philadelphia
Stand and Deliver
Thank You for Smoking
and, forgive me, Sister Act
posted by phunniemee at 8:01 PM on August 5, 2019 [1 favorite]
+ to Spotlight
+ to Erin Brockovich
These are movies I watch again and again. (A Few Good Men, too. I love this thread.)
Some others that might do it for you:
A Civil Action
Kramer vs Kramer
The Kings Speech
Miss Sloane
October Sky
Philadelphia
Stand and Deliver
Thank You for Smoking
and, forgive me, Sister Act
posted by phunniemee at 8:01 PM on August 5, 2019 [1 favorite]
Pride (2015). So many characters growing and I can never watch the (feel good) ending without crying.
posted by I claim sanctuary at 8:35 PM on August 5, 2019 [4 favorites]
posted by I claim sanctuary at 8:35 PM on August 5, 2019 [4 favorites]
Seconding Pride. I loved that movie.
Seems like All The President's Men would qualify.
12 Angry Men (the 1957 version).
Also, it has some difficult stuff, but possibly In the Heat of the Night.
posted by gudrun at 8:41 PM on August 5, 2019 [3 favorites]
Seems like All The President's Men would qualify.
12 Angry Men (the 1957 version).
Also, it has some difficult stuff, but possibly In the Heat of the Night.
posted by gudrun at 8:41 PM on August 5, 2019 [3 favorites]
Listen, I dunno if you're gonna like it or not, but to me, it's one of the best movies ever made. "Sneakers" with Robert Redford, Ben Kingsley and a bunch of other very talented castmembers. You'll probably like it more if you remember the cold war.
posted by signsofrain at 8:48 PM on August 5, 2019 [11 favorites]
posted by signsofrain at 8:48 PM on August 5, 2019 [11 favorites]
Seconding "12 Angry Men"
posted by vasi at 9:32 PM on August 5, 2019 [3 favorites]
posted by vasi at 9:32 PM on August 5, 2019 [3 favorites]
And of course Pride is 2014. That'll teach me to post straight after waking.
posted by I claim sanctuary at 9:59 PM on August 5, 2019
posted by I claim sanctuary at 9:59 PM on August 5, 2019
My Fellow Americans has wrongs righted, justice wittily served, a small but pivotal LGBT subplot, and some fun cranky-old-man banter between Jack Lemmon and James Garner as ex-(US )presidents of opposing parties who work together to take down the corrupt current president (it was 1996, it was a simpler time).
posted by Covert Kaiju at 10:56 PM on August 5, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by Covert Kaiju at 10:56 PM on August 5, 2019 [1 favorite]
Marshall. About Thurgood Marshall.
This is a genre I really like, actually. Where a flawed/naïve person becomes a better version of themselves. Often there's a mentor. I guess it is the Hero's Journey. Tom Cruise does a lot of these of varying quality like The Last Samurai, Jerry McGuire, The Color of Money, all those Grisham ones though maybe he was just in The Firm but the others work.
I think there's some school movies, especially prep school type ones, that you might enjoy. School Ties and Dead Poets Society.
posted by OnTheLastCastle at 7:11 AM on August 6, 2019
This is a genre I really like, actually. Where a flawed/naïve person becomes a better version of themselves. Often there's a mentor. I guess it is the Hero's Journey. Tom Cruise does a lot of these of varying quality like The Last Samurai, Jerry McGuire, The Color of Money, all those Grisham ones though maybe he was just in The Firm but the others work.
I think there's some school movies, especially prep school type ones, that you might enjoy. School Ties and Dead Poets Society.
posted by OnTheLastCastle at 7:11 AM on August 6, 2019
Legally Blonde
posted by Mchelly at 12:50 PM on August 6, 2019 [3 favorites]
posted by Mchelly at 12:50 PM on August 6, 2019 [3 favorites]
Michael Clayton
posted by schmoft at 5:59 AM on August 7, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by schmoft at 5:59 AM on August 7, 2019 [1 favorite]
If you're open to non-English movies, the Indian movie Lagaan - about an underdog village cricket team - gives me the same feeling as many of the movies here.
posted by peacheater at 8:56 AM on August 7, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by peacheater at 8:56 AM on August 7, 2019 [1 favorite]
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posted by windbox at 7:34 PM on August 5, 2019 [7 favorites]