Friendship Day 2019: 7 Hollywood Movies We Recommend You To Watch On This Occassion
If you are the ones who like to laze around at home with your dear pals and chill with some movies, why not celebrate the day by bingeing on films that celebrate friendship. In this special feature, we recommend seven Hollywood movies from various genres that you can watch on this day.
Friendship Day is around the corner and it is time to celebrate everything related to this beautiful bond that makes humanity alive. The day falls on August 4, 2019, and you have to thank Joyce Hall, the founder of Hallmark Cards for starting this tradition in 1930. However, World Friendship Day was said to have begun in 1958 when it was proposed to have the first Sunday of August to celebrate the occasion. So that's how we have a day to tell each other friend, 'Har Ek Friend Zaroori Hota Hai' (Every single friend is needed in some way). Happy Friendship Day 2019: Commonly Used Filmy Dialogues That Are a Part of Every Desi Friendship.
If you are the ones who like to laze around at home with your dear pals and chill with some movies, why not celebrate the day by bingeing on films that celebrate friendship. In this special feature, we recommend seven Hollywood movies from various genres that you can watch on this day. Friendship Day 2019 Funny Memes: Best Jokes and GIF Messages That You Can Send Your Buddies to Express Your Love!
Toy Story series
Can there be any better friends than Woody the Cowboy and Buzz Lightyear? Their friendship got off on a rough note in the first movie shrouded in jealousy, but over the span of four movies, their bonding has become quite beautiful and strong. And it is not just about Woody and Buzz, or Woody with other toys. Toy Story franchise is basically a heartfelt note to every kid's relationship with his or her toys. Which is why the song 'You Got A Friend in Me' gets to us every damn time!
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Now let's get onto something classic and western. And what best to discuss here than this Robert Redford and Redford film that offers memorable moments of male bonding! The final freeze-frame of the two outlaws going towards their imminent death is utterly unforgettable.
The Breakfast Club
Five kids from different social cliques of their high school are brought together for detention in this cult John Hughes film. After peeling off layers of their clique coatings, these kids realise that they are all misfits trying to live upto what is expected from them. This realisation paves way for some unexpected moments of attachments.
Stand By Me
If I tell you that this heartwarming tale of friendship was written by the same man who wrote the terrifying IT and Pet Sematary, you would scoff at me. But it's true that horror writer Stephen King has written one of the best stories about childhood friendship and coming of age. Which also explains why a dead body becomes the crux of this film, that has riveting performances from its young cast, especially the late River Phoenix.
When Harry Met Sally...
You must have heard this oft-quoted saying 'a boy and a girl can never be friends'! Blame it on this one! The movie that inspired the Bollywood film, Hum Tum, When Harry Met Sally... has Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan play two college friends who keep bumping into each other over the course of 12 years and figure out what exactly is the nature of their relationship - friendship or love.
Thelma & Louise
Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis star in this dramedy about two friends, with patchy personal lives, go on a road trip that has them get involved in a series of misadventures. Including murder. What shines through these problems is their love for each other, resulting in a Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid-like freeze-frame ending!
I Love You, Man
This R-rated comedy has Paul Rudd play an about to get married man, who never had a friend in life and therefore, is having trouble in finding a best man. After 'auditioning' through several men, he comes across a guy, played by Jason Segel, who shows what it means to have a fun-loving friend. The only trouble is that the guy is way too eccentric and has the potential to threaten his new best friend's wedding.
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