Friends of Syrup and Biscuits’ Favorite Southern Movies
August 20, 2011
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With the recent release of ”The Help”, the South is getting a lot of attention on the Big Screen. We compiled a list of our favorite movies depicting life in the South. The list is in no particular order.
- Fried Green Tomatoes
- Steel Magnolias
- Sweet Home Alabama
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Gone With the Wind
- The Blind Side
- Driving Miss Daisy
- O’ Brother Where Art Thou?
- Where the Heart is
- Hope Floats
- Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
- Sounder
- My Girl
- My Cousin Vinny
- Elizabethtown
- The Color Purple
- Something to Talk About
- Forrest Gump
- Ode to Billy Joe
- Shag
- The Green Mile
- A Time to Kill
- The Firm
- Affair of the Heart
- Urban Cowboy
- The Pelican Brief
- Coal Miner’s Daughter
- Pure Country
- Sling Blade
- Walking Tall
- Something to Talk About
- The Help
- The Patriot
- This Property is Condemned
- Legend of the Falls
- Fireproof
- Cold Mountain
- The Great Santini
- An Officer and a Gentleman
- Gettysburg
- Cape Fear
- Talladega Nights
- True Grit
- Wild America
- A Love Song for Bobby Long
- Secondhand Lions
- North and South
- The Grapes of Wrath
- The Yearling
- The Long Hot Summer
- Tender Mercies
- Places in the Heart
- Bull Durham
- The Man in the Moon
- Princess and the Frog
- Radio
- Facing the Giants
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- The Notebook
- A Walk to Remember
- Apollo 13
- From the Earth to the Moon (HBO)
- Tobacco Road
- The Heiress
- Jezebel
- Hidden Places
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Fireproof, filmed in Albany, Ga.
Got it, Barbara. Thanks!
Lots of new movies here I haven’t seen. How about a ranked version for those of us who aren’t from the South
And an important one that you are missing is The Princess and the Frog.
Kelli,
Got it! I’m adding Princess and the Frog. A ranked version would be hard to do because people’s taste in movie is so different. My two cents worth for must-see movies: Gone With the Wind, Steel Magnolias, Fried Green Tomatoes, Driving Miss Daisy, Forrest Gump, The Color Purple.
Thanks Jackie – Yes I know. You could do a simple vote and see what rises to the top. Maybe a FB poll?
4 out of 6 isn’t bad…I don’t think I’ve ever seen Driving Miss Daisy (I’ve some of it I think) or The Color Purple. So I better get my list of “to see” movies started and put those on it.
Kelli,
The poll is a good idea! I’m taking that under consideration. There are quite a few on the list that I want to see. This list is great because there are movies on there that I’d never heard of. Lots and lots of good movies to see!
Driving Miss Daisy is one of the best movies ever! My brother was OBSESSED with Forest Gump when we were growing up, and since I have seen it about a MILLION times its not one of my favorites but its ok. Fried Green Tomatos, Ya-Ya Sisterhood, and Steel Magnolias are a must. The Green Mile will make you cry (gets me every time). I forced my husband to watch the Notebook ( anything my Nicholas Sparks is a must read and see). Sweet Home Alabama is precious! To Kill a Mockingbird is an amazing movie and book. I would recommend seeing every movie she has listed but these are a few of my favorites.
Thanks for your input, Shandi! There’s no shortages of great movies about the South.
I watched “Fried Green Tomatoes ” last night. It is such a great movie!!
Ginger
Ginger,
It’s one of the best!
I saw Fried Green Tomatoes last week and it was sooo good!!! – again!! I have a DVD of Steel Magnolias – my daughter watched it about 100 times when she was young – she knows all the lines by heart – and I do too!! LOL – there were a lot listed that I need to see again – but I do want to go see The Help this weekend!
Ann,
Those are centainly two of my favorites. I have them both on DVD.
An old classic…A Streetcar Named Desire
Check you have listed some more that one time is that because you like them so much?????
Lenita,
LOL! Having such a long list and not the movies in alphabetical order made it hard to keep from duplicating. I found a duplicate for The Color Purple. Do you see others, too?
Tobacco Road
Got to be Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil for me. This is a brilliant list. I am from Scotland in the UK and my partner is from Virginia with family in West Virginia and South Carolina. I like to think of myself as an honorary Southerner and this is a great list to get me in the Southern mood!
Scarlett,
I’m glad you found the list useful! I just love it. Our Syrup and Biscuits’ friends contributed. This is a list of everyone’s favorites! As an honorary Southerner, I hope you say “y’all”….a lot!