I'm soft. But I think I'm okay with that. I enjoy watching movies that make me feel good. Pure escapism, where somebody achieves the impossible, finds love, is funny and makes me laugh, or mostly inspires me or provides some sort of hope.

There are a lot of film categories like drama, comedy, action and documentaries but where's the 'feel good' films section? What prompted this topic was watching the film August Rush. It was a little sappy and all over the place, but overall pretty enjoyable. It's not going to win any academy awards, its just a nice film. It got me thinking about all the 'nice' films that should be lumped together.

I made a quick list. It's interesting to find some actors seem to be in more feel good films than others. I wonder if they are sold to actors as such. Here's my quick list:

01. August Rush
02. Green Mile
03. Finding Forester
04. What Dreams May Come
05. Little Miss Sunshine
06. Good Will Hunting
07. Jerry Maguire
08. Garden State
09. Dan in Real Life
10. Wedding Crashers
11. Scent of a Woman
12. Big
13. Dead Poets Society
14. Meet Joe Black
15. Hitch
16. Pay It Forward
17. Rudy
18. Patch Adams
19. Under the Tuscan Sun
20. Strictly Ballroom
21. Rushmore
22. Somethings Gotta Give
23. Bucket List
24. As Good As It Gets
25. Purple Violets
26. It's A Wonderful Life
27. Shawshank Redemption
28. American Beauty
29. K-Pax
30. Pleasantville
31. Remember The Titans
32. Say Anything
33. The Pursuit of Happiness
34. Once
35. Million Dollar Baby
36. Shrek
37. Cars
38. Ratatuille
39. The Wedding Date
40. Swingers
41. Pretty in Pink
42. Erin Brockovich
43. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
44. Superbad
45. Martian Child
46. The Cider House Rules
47. Tootsie
48. Good Luck Chuck
49. Spanglish
50. Sleepless In Seattle

And the list could go on and on. But there's just a few off the top of my head in no particular order. What would your list consist of? Do you like feel good films?