Crazy enough, we’re at the end of summer and rounding on fall. While some mark fall with apple picking, hot cider, and various other hallmark activities, others prefer to spend this season exactly the way we spent summer: parked on the couch, bing-watching movies. Now, the only difference is that we’re cuddled up in blankets watching the coziest movies rather than sweating with the windows open.
Below, find 5 of the very best, coziest movies, which are not necessarily movies set in the fall, but which encompass or represent fall in one way or another, to get you through December.
When Harry Met Sally… (1989)
When thinking of fall, many automatically picture Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal walking through a leaf-strewn Central Park and talking about Sally’s (Meg Ryan) ultimate sexual fantasy. The film cycles through various seasons, but it feels most vivid and alive in autumn, making it the perfect thing to get you through a dreary November afternoon.
Dead Poets Society (1989)
It is a truth universally acknowledged that any movie that (1) takes place at a boys boarding school and (2) stars Robin Williams has maximum cozy, nostalgic, watch potential. It’s kind of hard to rewatch this film in the wake of Williams’s passing, but it’s also worth it; parts of it still hold up, and as for the parts that don’t? Just let that East Coast academic background soothe you.
Autumn in New York (2000)
Title aside, this tearjerker staring Winona Ryder and Richard Gere gives off major fall vibes by including things many people associate with the season, including Central Park, small museums, and a woman dressed up as Emily Dickinson. We love to see it (and cry at it)!
Legally Blonde (2001)
Obviously the movie starts off in the seasonally indistinguishable landscape of Southern California, but as protagonist Elle Woods moves toward her goal of attending Harvard law school, Legally Blonde‘s landscape changes to the crunchy leaves, woolly jackets, and Gothic brick buildings that all mark an East Coast autumn. She may have some trouble dressing for the Massachusetts weather at first, but she eventually aces it (as one might expect).
Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
Watching the Julia Roberts / Julia Stiles / Kirsten Dunst trifecta is acceptable in any season, but watching it in fall will make you crave a well-knit sweater and thermos of tea to take along with you while you cheer for the boys at the Harvard-Yale game.
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