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I think most, mainline, movies have happy endings, or at least are "redemptive". So many that I just changed my mind and won't post any.
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Too true. Some movies leave you bummed out, I won't name them here, but I might start a thread about UNhappy endings.
I was born in 1948 and spent much of the 1950's watching all those old WW-II movies at the Hollywood Theater in Arbutus, MD. Double features were 25-cents on Saturday's, always a WW-II flick and a western. Every movie ended the same, i.e., the good guys won and we were the good guys. The Hollywood Theatre is still there in Arbutus.
I do like the OP's choice of The Wizard of Oz, a movie loaded with all sorts of lessons, the obvious one being "there's no place like home" which is a concept that we could do a whole thread on. IMO, the key point of that movie is that Dorothy (essentially all of us) have the power within us to go where we want, be who we want and that we have it within us to solve any jam that we're in. At that time, 1939, we were ten years into the grinding grittiness of the Great Depression and facing WW-II in Europe. As a nation we needed the affirmation that we had the power within each of us to solve our problems and not fear the future. As we say these days, Just Do It.
Another good happy ending movie is "It's A Wonderful Life" which plays every Christmas season. It also has many of those feel-good lessons about we have it within us to solve our problems....
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WERE THE WORLD MINE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X-zYUvSGVg . THE WIZARD OF OZ and IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE as already mentioned. THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRIOLOGY; THE SECRET GARDEN; THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY; YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU; MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON; MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET; MY MAN GODFREY; LIFEBOAT; MIRACLE AT MORGANS CREEK; THE SNAKE PIT; THE MIRACLE WORKER; THE CANTERVILLE GHOST .
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