![]() ![]() #SORTY PALAY PRON 2019 MOVIE#This was the first movie I watched when I got home, and it was a great choice. Julie and Julia (available to rent on Amazon) Think of these options as televisual benzos that’ll help drown out the anxiety you’re all getting from staring at your phones 10 hours a day. What my parents say they most want to watch right now are what I like to call “comfy” movies - films without too much stress, where the stakes stay low and ideally nobody dies. How should we fill the time? Perhaps with this carefully curated selection of family-friendly films currently available on streaming, as determined by me, with special assistance from my loving parents and their helpful neighbors. (Everyone complains about helicopter parents until it’s the Fall of Saigon.) So now the three of us are holed up in one house for the first time since the mid-aughts, and anecdotally, it seems that plenty of other millennials are in the same boat. Two of them are my mother and father, who were so worried about the pandemic that two months ago, they evacuated me from my studio apartment so I could spend the quarantine with them in suburban Maryland. In my experience, there are also plenty of 60-somethings who’ve done their part to help flatten the curve by practicing self-isolation and proper social distancing. However! Let me just say: #NotAllBoomers. ![]() Recently, much has been written about the character of the foolhardy boomer, who drives their adult children crazy by not taking the coronavirus seriously. It has been updated with more films my parents and I have enjoyed during quarantine. *This post was originally published in March. Photo: Columbia/Scott Rudin Prods/Kobal/Shutterstock ![]()
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