Essential Films to See at Least Once Before You Die

Spirited Away

Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away is one of Studio Ghibli's best. 10-year-old Chihiro and her parents visit an abandoned amusement park, only for the latter to be transformed into humongous pigs. Chihiro is forced to work at the park—which is really a resort for supernatural beings—in order to free herself and her parents from its confines.

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The More You Know

  • Goats have accents.
  • More people are bitten each year by New Yorkers than by sharks.
  • In Home Alone, Buzz's girlfriend is actually a boy in a wig. The director thought it would be too mean to ask a girl to be in the film this way.
  • Christopher Mintz-Plasse, who played the character of ‘Fogell/McLovin’ in the coming-of-age indie flick ‘Superbad,’ was only 17 when filming took place. Being a minor at the time, his mother was required to be on the set during the filming of his sex scene.
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