big lebowski, big, forrest gump, norma rae, sound of music, american beauty, lost in translation, groundhog day, the royal tannenbaums, shawshank redemption, frequency, mystic river, in the line of fire, ghost, beatlejuice, sixteen candles, adventures in babysitting, godfather, schindler's list, kramer vs. kramer, philadelphia, traffic...
disgrace (j.m. coetzee), middlesex (jeffrey Eugenides), bel canto (ann patchett), the magus (john fowles), the bhagavad gita, catcher in the rye, atonement (ian mcewan), lovely bones (alice sebold), amazing adventures of kavalier and klay (michael chabon), a heartbreaking work of staggering genius (dave eggers), the poetry of william blake, emily dickinson, hafiz, rumi, sara teasdale, robert frost, the more lyrical (loving?) e.e. cummings and e.a. poe. anything that encounters life's simultaneous push and pull, joyful heartache, and reaches into the deep.