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Monday Movie Meme – Keeping up with the Kindliness
Monday, April 13, 2015 at 7:30AM 
(l-r): Eddie Murphy and Louie Anderson in "Coming to America."We never know how much even the simplest gestures such as a smile or “hello” can alter the course of someone’s day, for the better. So, this week’s Monday Movie Meme is all about highlighting the good deeds that create a ripple effect of positive vibes and hope for those around us: Random Acts of Kindness.
Share on your blog or in the comments section, movies featuring kind gestures involving the main or supporting characters. This includes scenes where a movie character is either the recipient or the giver of some type of unexpected deed that had a positive impact on one or more people in the film. Here are my selections for this week’s “Random Acts of Kindness” theme.
- A fast food worker gives a pair of ruby earrings to a random subway passenger, after his girlfriend breaks up with him, in the comedy COMING TO AMERICA starring James Earl Jones, Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall.
- An abused and bashful housewife does grocery shopping for her partially blind daughter-in-law who was released from prison only to work a maid for the town’s mayor, in the drama THE COLOR PURPLE starring Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover and Oprah Winfrey. Although the housewife’s act of kindness was intentional and done for family, her good deed wasn’t exactly planned, so I still consider the gesture in this scene to have a level of randomness to it.
- Townspeople pool their funds to save a local business from folding after $8,000 in missing deposits put a distraught father at risk of going to jail, in the family drama IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE starring James Stewart and Donna Reed.
K is for Kindness
What movies, featuring scenes where random acts of kindness are being performed, would YOU add to this list?
Reader Comments (5)
I was thinking of Pay it Forward but I think the main character's acts of kindness were planned.
Pay It Forward!
It doesn't take much to make the day brighter for someone, and you never know how far that kindness will spread. I loved these movies, so maybe that had to do with those random acts of kindness.
Trying to think of one not already mentioned. Most movies concentrate on unkindness.
Probably any Shirley Temple movie. Her characters were always so sweet and doing nice things.