The Best Movies Since 1985
In five days I turn 30 years old. Insanity. In celebration of three decades of living, I present the best movies my favorite movies of life thus far. You were wondering, right?
Here’s to movies, life and the next decade,
KD
1985: The Breakfast Club
Runners-Up: The Trip to Bountiful & The Goonies
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1986: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Runner-Up: Stand By Me
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1987: Moonstruck
Runner-Up: Broadcast News
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1988: Big
Runners-Up: Bull Durham, Cinema Paradiso
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1989: When Harry Met Sally…
Runners-Up: Dead Poets Society, Field of Dreams, Steel Magnolias, Uncle Buck
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1990: Home Alone
Runner-Up: Pretty Woman
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1991: Thelma & Louise
Runner-Up: Hook
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1992: A League of Their Own
Runner-Up: Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
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1993: Sleepless in Seattle
Runners-Up: Cool Runnings & The Sandlot
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1994: Forrest Gump
Runner-Up: The Paper
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1995: Toy Story
Runner-Up: Dead Man Walking
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1996: The English Patient
Runner-Up: Fargo
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1997: Titanic
Runner-Up: My Best Friend’s Wedding
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1998: Shakespeare in Love
Runner-Up: A Bug’s Life
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1999: Election
Runners-Up: The Cider House Rules, October Sky & Notting Hill
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2000: Almost Famous
Runners-Up: Cast Away & Erin Brockovich
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2001: Moulin Rouge
Runners-Up: Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone & Ocean’s Eleven
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2002: Chicago
Runner-Up: Catch Me If You Can
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2003: Love Actually
Runners-Up: Lost in Translation & Cold Mountain
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2004: The Aviator
Runners-Up: The Incredibles & Finding Neverland
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2005: Wedding Crashers
Runners-Up: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Elizabethtown & The Family Stone
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2006: We Are Marshall
Runners-Up: Little Miss Sunshine & United 93
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2007: Juno
Runner-Up: Atonement
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2008: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Runners-Up: Wall-E, The Reader & Vicky Cristina Barcelona
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2009: Up In The Air
Runners-Up: (500) Days of Summer & Up
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2010: Inception
Runners-Up: The Social Network & Toy Story 3
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2011: Midnight in Paris
Runners-Up: The Help, The Artist & Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2
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2012: Beasts of the Southern Wild
Runners-Up: Wanderlust, Moonrise Kingdom & Les Miserables
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2013: American Hustle
Runners-Up: The Great Gatsby & August: Osage County
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2014: Grand Budapest Hotel
Runner-Up: Birdman
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2015: Inside Out
(So far…)
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Ruby Dyer
This list brings back many memories. Some of these movies we watched over and over and over. What fun! Now I am experiencing many of them again with your nephews, my grandsons.
Keep enjoying life and your favorite films. Love, Mom