International Recommend-A-Movie Day

as spotted in trollprincess' journal

three to watch:

Brassed Off, the story of some brass bandsmen set in the UK during the miners' strike. It's not always an easy film to watch, but it has wonderful performances and a wonderful plotline. And serves to remind that we should never, ever elect a Tory government again. Except that, as perlmonger points out, we've got one.
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The American President is, for me, the movie equivalent of "comfort food". I know every word of every scene, and never tire of it. Written by Aaron Sorkin, it is the forerunner to that most excellent TV series The West Wing, although that's not anything like as good as it was when Sorking was writing it.
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Strictly Ballroom - if you read the blurb, you'd probably never watch it, unless the name of Baz Luhrmann was enough. It's about a ballroom dancer in Australia, determined to break out of the mould of the accepted way of dancing, and is an utterly charming film. I never fail to cry at the end :)
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now tell more people to do it. Hopefully, we'll all have lots and lots of recommendations by the end of the day.

badger!

perlmonger: why isn't this custom tag working? It should work - I've checked the directory and it's there; I've restarted ColdFusion. Why doesn't it *work*.

me: because you've forgotten the file extension, dearest - shall I rename it for you?