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Movies for Grandma?

fluffkin79

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fluffkin79

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I plan on giving my 85-year-old grandmother-in-law a DVD player for Christmas. I'd like to give her some movies to go along with it, but don't know what to look for. Cheaper is better - I'd rather give a few from the under $5 bin than just one newer release. I'll include a kid's movie or 2 for her to share with the grandkids, but I need some ideas of movies she might enjoy.

 

 

She's no stick-in-the-mud, but not exactly trendy either. I don't think she would appreciate anything with excessive intimacy, drug or alcohol use or other vises. She does like reading mystery stories and loves watching Judge Judy. She did tell me about a movie she enjoyed, but doesn't remember the title. It is about a child and mother who move in with grandma. The mother has diabetes and (I think) gets ill/possibly passes away. I did a search and the only thing I could find was Steel Magnolias, but I think this movie is a bit more recent. Any ideas would be appriciated. TIA.

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How about murder she wrote boxed sets, some place, I don't remember where has boxed tv sets. This reminds me of a funny story, My mom, who was cool yet conservative, and went video cassette shopping, she bought children of the corn, thinking it was a Waltons, type of movie. LOL
sweetdiggity

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My grandma is in her 70s and loves animated films like Polar Express and the new A Christmas Carol. She liked the new Hairspray with John Travolta, too. lol

 

LOL @ Children of the Corn!!!

lotion

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Andy Griffith?

Murder She Wrote?

Forrest Gump?

Some of the older Disney ones.... Herbie, Bednobs and Broomsticks, Mary Poppins, etc.

Steele Magnol. (sp?)

happysunshine28

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Any of the Hallmark movie collections would be wonderful, they have more than one movie per disk

 

http://www.amazon.com/Hallmark-4-Film-Collectors-Chad-Lowe/dp/B0028EQMQW/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1289867565&sr=8-11

 

http://www.amazon.com/Hallmark-Collectors-Set-Edward-Asner/dp/B0035497ZC/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1289867565&sr=8-8

 

http://www.amazon.com/Hallmark-Collector-Set-V-2-Movies/dp/B001HMFCRQ/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1289867565&sr=8-6

 

http://www.amazon.com/Hallmark-Collectors-Set-Chad-Lowe/dp/B0028OH59A/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1289867565&sr=8-4

 

http://www.amazon.com/Hallmark-Holiday-Collectors-Meredith-Baxter/dp/B002STN6GG/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1289867565&sr=8-3

 

http://www.amazon.com/Hallmark-Collectors-Set-Louis-Gossett/dp/B0032EFQQO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1289867565&sr=8-2

 

http://www.amazon.com/Hallmark-Collector-Set-V-1-6-Movies/dp/B001HMFCR6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1289867565&sr=8-1

laniebean

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breakfast at tiffanys... to this day still one of my faves I rember watching it with my Gma as a kids she would be 85 this year.. I saw it last week on the $5 rack at walmart
fluffkin79

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Thanks for all the great ideas! I am looking for classics and some newer ones. I was definatly leaning toward Hallmark or (some) Lifetime movies. You really got my mind going in the right direction. I bet there will be some good ones for her in bins at Walmart and Target. If not, Amazon here I come! Edited by fluffkin79
Reinholt1

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(Jim Carrey) The Majestic. My seniors went bonkers over that when it came out and it's been out long enough that it should be in the $5 bin.

 

Amazon had several 4 pack movies from Turner classic movies for $11.99. I bought 7 different 4 packs for my folks (80 yr old.) Comedy, Hitchcock, musicals, Christmas etc. Works out to $3 a movie for some great classics

 

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_18?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=tcm+movie+classics&sprefix=tcm+movie+classics#%2Fref%3Dnb_sb_noss%3Furl%3Dsearch-alias%253Daps%26field-keywords%3Dtcm%2B%2Bgreatest%2Bmovie%2Bclassic%26rh%3Di%253Aaps%252Ck%253Atcm%2B%2Bgreatest%2Bmovie%2Bclassic&enc=1

 

 

My folks also remember and love the old nature/travel type films. I got them Planet earth and Disney's True Adventure sets this year. (A little more pricey then the $5 bin but if you look around you can find them reasonably sale priced or used.)

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How about the Thin Man, Miss Marple, or Rosemary & Thyme. They are all series murder mysteries. My 75 year old MIL who likes to read mystery books likes all three of these series.
AndreaInNC

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Go to her house and see what movies / TV shows she has on VHS. I did that one year and replaced some of my mom's VHS tapes with DVD. She had TV shows that she loved to watch - and it gave me great ideas! You'd be surprised what you can find that some people keep and won't erase!
Princess7915

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Sometimes you can find newer movies on good sales around BF so I would look. My grandmother - late 70's loves Julie and Julia. She also liked Nights in Rodanthe (all those Nicholas Sparks movies are good choices) Message in a Bottle was another one and it came out several years ago. Maid in Manhattan was cute as well as The Wedding Planner - both Jennifer Lopez movies so they are more current as well but you should find them fairly inexpensively. They are just cute movies - and Grandma friendly :)
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Do you have a Hastings nearby? They have great collections of older movies for $3.50- I got my Gram a set of 20 westerns (she loves westerns) and my mom a set of 15 Alfred Hitchcock movies. They had all kinds though,very good selection if you are looking from anything from the 1940s to the early 2000s.
Reinholt1

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Well, I can honestly say... the turner classic movies are a hit with the 80 year old set!

 

Mom found them, and she is thrilled! And she is NOT waiting for Christmas to watch them. (She also has 4 new sweaters and two shirts she is looking forward to wearing over the holidays.)

 

I need to start a new thread....Anyone got any ideas on how to keep the old people out of the Christmas presents?!?!? Remember, they are old and they break easy so the methods need to be gentle. Oh! And psychological warfare does not work...Mom's excuse is that she is 80 now, she could go at any time... might not be here for Christmas so she wants to enjoy everything now.

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Well, I can honestly say... the turner classic movies are a hit with the 80 year old set!

 

Mom found them, and she is thrilled! And she is NOT waiting for Christmas to watch them. (She also has 4 new sweaters and two shirts she is looking forward to wearing over the holidays.)

 

I need to start a new thread....Anyone got any ideas on how to keep the old people out of the Christmas presents?!?!? Remember, they are old and they break easy so the methods need to be gentle. Oh! And psychological warfare does not work...Mom's excuse is that she is 80 now, she could go at any time... might not be here for Christmas so she wants to enjoy everything now.

Your mom sounds fun to me!! I wish my parents would be as excited about Christmas. I guess that could get expensive though. You need a really good hiding place. One year I marked my kids packages by color not by name so they did not who each present was for. I had one who could shake his present s(no matter how I disguised it) and could guess what it was. That way she would not know which present to open.

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My granny was very old fashioned but one movie that she really loved was Dirty Dancing. It was so funny when she found out that it was going to be coming on. My mom would always tease her about Patrick Swayze but granny would deny it every time. We know she secretly had a crush on him. She passed away in 2002 and when I read this thread title, it brought back memories and made me laugh just thinking about it.

 

Not so sure your granny would like Dirty Dancing though,lol.

 

I was thinking Hope Floats too.

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