Your perfect movie night is ahead.
Listen, we know you plan to spend the majority of your Independence Day having fun in the sun, or barbequing with your friends and loved ones. But when you’re done, here are the best July 4th movies to cool down with.
A League of Their Own We will always hit like a girl thank you, very much, which is why we stand for A League of Their Own. Loosely based on a World War II-era All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, the film stars Geena Davis and Lori Petty as a pair of competitive sisters who form the Rockford Peaches when all the men are off to war.
The Godfather The Godfather I and II are some of the best films in American cinematic history, and for that reason alone, we’ve included the first flick in our list. Thanks for coming to our TED Talk. The Godfather is about an American family building their way up through the generations. It’s a quintessential 20th-century story, and you won’t regret diving into it. Independence Day Ok, this one is super obvious, but it’s Will Smith in the ’90s so we couldn’t just pass it up.
Apollo 13 “Houston, we have a problem.” What’s more American than going to space? Based on the 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission, astronauts Jim Lovell , Fred Haise and Jack Swigert find themselves amid disaster when an oxygen tank explodes. The rest of the mission is about perseverance and tenacity when your life is literally at stake. Jaws As one of Steven Spielberg’s first films, 1975’s Jaws isn’t exactly “patriotic” but it still works.
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