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Movies To Cheer You Up!

As the cold, dark autumn months close in on all of us, what better way to raise the spirits than to curl up with a good film guaranteed to make you feel good about the world? A dose of the following should be enough to banish your seasonal blues, though it might help if you accompany them with a bucket of popcorn, a roaring fire and a special one to snuggle next to. Who knows – as Bogie says at the end of Casablanca, this could be the start of a beautiful friendship...

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