Since I know you're on the edge of your seat:

The answers, with why I chose them:

1. Bull Durham - What's not to like? Susan Sarradon as loosely-moraled baseball groupie, from back when Kevin Costner was likeable. (BTW-spellcheck wants me to delete that e and I just don't want to) I loved the way should could wear a head scarf and look so very cool.
   
2. My Cousin Vinny- Great cast of New Yorker characters plopped down in Alabama. Great lines including "magic grits" and the "My biological clock is going tick-tick tick (with stilettoed-heel stomp) " from the firlfrind. However, I never thought the coupling of Marisa Tomei and Joe Pesci was very believable.
   
3. Stripes- Very funny. I'm a sucker for Bill Murray's timing and delivery. I tell people that my first year teaching, entirely as a substitute, was like his movie "Groundhog Day". Every day I go in prepared and energetic, just like Bill Murray wanting to sleep with Andie McDowell, and the next day (with different kids) they remember none of it.
   
4. I am Legend For some reason this movie really struck me as profound. The good Doctor's sense of survival, guilt, personal responsibility and loneliness. Very sad, and I will never listen to Bob Marley's "Don't Worry...'Bout a Thing" the same way again.
   
5. The Shawshank Redemption A story of hope, again with great characters. I never thought I was a TIm Robbins fan, but here he is in two of my favorites.
   
6. Top Gun Pretty cheesy, but I was twenty years old when it came out. I think Maverick and Goose's relationship was quite cool; I wish such companionship for all my man friends.
   
7. An American Werewolf in London Not exactly a clssic, but I saw this on one of my first dates, and I absolutley adored David McNaughton (the I'm a Pepper" guy). Unfortunatly for him , I nver saw that he did anything else.
   
8. American Flyers Great cycling move. Watched it again with my college friends the night before my first MS 150.
   
9. Coal Miner's Daughter This was on cable the year we had it, the summer after 9th grade, adn I thin Amy & watched it a dozen times. It was during the summer before I moved to Houston as was "Urban Cowboy"-tell me I wasn't terrifed about the surprise move that August of 1981.
   
10. Moonstruck Don't know. Just liked it-and Cher looked really beautiful, which I hadn't thought since her "I got you Babe" days.
    
11. Little Big Man Dustin Hoffman's the best. It was a real debate as to which of his movies to include.
    
12. Gladiator I never expected to like this movie, but I was mesmerized by watching a natural leader like Maximus in action.
    
13. Shakespeare in Love Again, unexpectedly, I loved this movie, probably because of the contrived yet amusing refrences to his other works
    
14. Cool Hand Luke Paul Newman as an asnrchist? Really? Me-ow.
    
15. Remember the Titans My favorite kid-friendly movie. I find an excuse to show this at some point every year. And even I'm supposed to be grading papers, I still watch and cry at appropriate times. Even if I show it in 3 consecutive class periods. Sad, I know.