15 uplifting movies on Netflix for a feel-good escape
We could all use a feel-good movie right about now.
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2021-02-20 22:00:00 UTC
You don t need any excuse or reason to watch something uplifting on Netflix, so we re not going to pretend you do. Yes, feel-good movies are always there for us when spirits are low, but even when you re happy you deserve to ride that wave! Turn your frown upside down or fix that grin on firmly with these films.
Here are 15 uplifting Netflix movies you can stream right now.Â
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Dumplinâ
Danielle Macdonald as Willowdean and Jennifer Aniston as Rosie in Dumplin, in which a former beauty queen s daughter enters a pageant as a protest.
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The road to Radha Blank’s intimate and hilariously autobiographical debut film, “The Forty-Year-Old Version,” began with her losing her first screenwriting job.
Blank puts it even more bluntly. “One of my roles as an artist is to demystify things,” she says. “I got
fired off that job. And I just wanted to create something I couldn’t get fired from.”
A longtime struggling playwright, Blank developed her life story into a script about a 40-something Harlem-based theater artist who finds an unexpected outlet as an amateur rapper. “It was not my initial intention to make it as a film,” she says. Blank originally “took a note from my millennial brothers and sisters” and conceived it as a DIY web series.
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