Authenticity

Authenticity is one of the truly high-end human attainments ~ living with it means we know and accept who we genuinely are, behave consistently with that, and are prepared to respond with maturity to any challenge to, or questioning of, whatever it ends up being. Authenticity takes courage! Following are excellent examples of people living with it come what may, striving to live with it despite challenges, and just taking the first steps down its path.

Examples of Authenticity in Film

• 500 Days of Summer
• A Few Good Men
• A Map of the World
• A Single Man
• About Last Night…
• Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
• Alien Nation
• Anonymous
• As Good As It Gets
• Away We Go
• Bandits
• Before Night Falls
• Bend It Like Beckham
• Billy Elliot
• Boys Don’t Cry
• Breaking Away
• Bridget Jones’ Diary
• Brokeback Mountain
• Capote
• Captain America: The First Avenger
• City Slickers
• Contact
• Crazy, Stupid, Love.
• Dancer in the Dark
• Dead Man Walking
• Death to Smoochy
• Dirty Dancing
• Doubt
• Election
• Elizabeth: The Golden Age
• Erin Brockovich
• Factotum
• Far from Heaven
• Flawless (1999)
• Flipped
• Friends with Money
• Galaxy Quest
• Gladiator
• Good Will Hunting
• Groundhog Day
• Hairspray (2007)
• Hancock
• Hannah and Her Sisters
• Howl
• I Love You, Man
• In Her Shoes
• Interiors
• Jack Goes Boating
• Jerry Maguire
• Juno
• Keeping the Faith
• La Cage aux Folles
• La Mission
• Legally Blonde
• Lost in America
• Mask
• Mighty Aphrodite
• Milk
• Murphy’s Romance
• Normal
• Notes on a Scandal
• Philadelphia
• Rounders
• Rudy
• Searching for Debra Winger
• Secretary
• Seven
• Shall We Dance? (1996)
• Shattered Glass
• Sideways
• Sixteen Candles
• Something Borrowed
• Stanley & Iris
• Stranger Than Fiction
• Tender Mercies
• Terms of Endearment
• The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
• The Big Chill
• The Big Kahuna
• The Big Year
• The Birdcage
• The Edge
• The Fighter
• The Good Girl
• The Help
• The Hunt for Red October
• The Lord of the Rings (full trilogy, special edition boxed set of
• course)
• The Matrix
• The Painted Veil
• The Proposal
• The Queen
• The Runaways
• The Shawshank Redemption
• The Silence of the Lambs
• The Town
• Thunder Soul
• Titanic
• Tootsie
• Under the Tuscan Sun
• Warrior
• We Don’t Live Here Anymore
• Whale Rider
• Whatever Works
• When a Man Loves a Woman
• When Harry Met Sally…
• Without Limits