Continuing this week’s 45 motif for my birthday, today I am thinking about favorite films.

Before I met Courtney, I didn’t consider myself much of a movie person. On the other hand, he was an avid film fan, and, as he had a long recovery from a major back surgery in our first year together, we spent a lot of happy, cozy time cuddled up, getting me caught up on all the stories I had missed. ❤

Since then, over the years, we’ve found so many films that we love together, and I look forward to our movie date nights several times a week.

This list – in no particular order – includes many of our together favorites, some beloved Christmas movies (so dear to my heart), and a few favorite film series as well.

Where there are series, I’ve just counted the whole as one – even though I freely acknowledge that some films in every series are better than others (I’m looking at you, Rocky V).

45 Favorite Films:

1. The Crow

2. A Good Year

3. Leap Year

4. The Lethal Weapon Series. I somehow had missed this one until this past year and we had so much fun with it that we binged it in four nights during a work week.

5. Elf

6. Two Weeks Notice

7. High Fidelity

8. Draft Day

9. Love Actually

10. Beauty and the Beast – both the live and the animated versions.

11. The Rocky series including the Creed movies.

12. Into The Wild

13. Animal House. A classic we all love.

14. Major League. “Just a little outside.” 😉

15. The Harry Potter series. Always.

16. The Fault In Our Stars

17. A Christmas Carol – the George C. Scott version or bust. 🙂

18. The Replacements

19. Facing Nolan. (We ❤ Nolan Ryan and this is one of the best documentaries we’ve seen.)

20. The John Wick series.

21. What About Bob

22. The King’s Speech

23. Sleepy Hollow

24. The Great Gatsby – the Baz Luhrmann/Leo version 🙂

25. The Illusionist

26. Bohemian Rhapsody

27. Julie and Julia

28. The Perks Of Being A Wallflower

29. The Big Lebowski

30. Big Fish ❤

31. Tangled

32. You’ve Got Mail

33. Fried Green Tomatoes

34. Scrooged

35. The Great Outdoors

36. Gladiator

37. Christmas Vacation

38. Almost Famous

39. Braveheart

40. Hocus Pocus

41. Steel Magnolias

42. Moneyball

43. The Devil Wears Prada

44. Les Misérables

45. Silver Linings Playbook

These are some of our Hippie Hut favorites – and this has been a fabulous list to make, so much fun.

Finally, when I was finding my artwork for the post, I came across the best bookstore signage – related to You’ve Got Mail – that I just have to share for my better half.

Be well, everybody. Take care of yourselves and each other.

Grace and Blessings.