![]() (What can I say, parents love Keira Knightley her rap name is PL Cool K.) She plays a directionless 28-year-old who starts hanging out with a bunch of high schoolers. You won’t need to call your mom - she’s sitting right next to you! Laggies (available to rent on Amazon)Īnother A24 effort and the first of many Keira Knightley movies on this list. (A very 20th Century Women type of thing to happen.) So let’s replace it with another semiautobiographical A24 period piece about a rocky parent-child relationship in California. I originally had 20th Century Women in this spot, before I watched it with my parents and they told me in no uncertain terms that they did not like it. (Then donate to their staff.) Lady Bird (available on Netflix) Watch it and think about what restaurant you’ll go to when this is all over. This one’s a culinary dramedy about a snooty French chef (Helen Mirren) who feuds with an Indian family who’ve opened their own restaurant across the street. More food porn, this time from Lasse Hallström, the patron saint of parent movies. The Hundred Foot Journey (available on Netflix) Beyoncé plays James, in what turns out to be a better, pricklier performance than her turn in Dreamgirls two years earlier. Cadillac Records (available to rent on Amazon)Ī heavily fictionalized retelling of the history of Chicago’s Chess Records, but if you can get past the shameless embellishments, you’ll find the Avengers of musical biopics, which gets a lot of mileage from simply putting pioneers like Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Chuck Berry, and Etta James in the same room together, and letting them go to town. Director Sean Baker has such a light touch that you don’t see the sad stuff coming until it’s too late. A bunch of adorable kids run around low-cost motels outside Disney World, where they raise hell and torment the kindly handyman (Willem Dafoe, playing a nice guy for once). Of the dozens of movies my parents and I have watched, this has been their favorite. ![]() The Florida Project (available on Netflix) It’s religious but not too religious - the “Christmas and Easter Christians” of movies. When I think of cozy movies, I think of The Two Popes, which gets two of our finest British actors together to bicker in funny accents, before they eventually strike up a papal bromance. Meryl Streep having the time of her life playing the vivacious, enormous Julia Child! Stanley Tucci as the world’s best onscreen husband! Scene after scene of lovingly photographed French dishes! Amy Adams is in it, too. This was the first movie I watched when I got home, and it was a great choice. Julie and Julia (available to rent on Amazon) Think of these options as televisual benzos that’ll help drown out the anxiety you’re all getting from staring at your phones 10 hours a day. What my parents say they most want to watch right now are what I like to call “comfy” movies - films without too much stress, where the stakes stay low and ideally nobody dies. How should we fill the time? Perhaps with this carefully curated selection of family-friendly films currently available on streaming, as determined by me, with special assistance from my loving parents and their helpful neighbors. (Everyone complains about helicopter parents until it’s the Fall of Saigon.) So now the three of us are holed up in one house for the first time since the mid-aughts, and anecdotally, it seems that plenty of other millennials are in the same boat. Two of them are my mother and father, who were so worried about the pandemic that two months ago, they evacuated me from my studio apartment so I could spend the quarantine with them in suburban Maryland. In my experience, there are also plenty of 60-somethings who’ve done their part to help flatten the curve by practicing self-isolation and proper social distancing. ![]() ![]() However! Let me just say: #NotAllBoomers. Recently, much has been written about the character of the foolhardy boomer, who drives their adult children crazy by not taking the coronavirus seriously. It has been updated with more films my parents and I have enjoyed during quarantine. *This post was originally published in March. Photo: Columbia/Scott Rudin Prods/Kobal/Shutterstock
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