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so comedy season is coming up (we had frozen windshields this morning, but still, spring is starting to show up on the ground) and i need a new repertoire.

comedy in the classical "happy ending" sense, not in the contemporary "oh so funny" sense. though they're not mutually exclusive of course.

basically i need movies with sympathetic characters who triumph against adversity. "heroes" who live to tell the tale not die in a fire.

terrible premise, i know, with so much hollywood pap made along these lines, but i welcome quality recommendations from the hive mind.