Fall Is Ending, But These Movies Will Let You Hold Onto It All Year Long
For many, fall is the season of new beginnings—it holds back-to-school energy, the promise of three-plus holidays, and countless cold-weather traditions we’ve missed all year.
Though winter is coming, there are thankfully still ways to hold tight to fall and all its beauty. One way to do that is through film and television that memorializes the golden season.
So here are some movies to put the fall back in your step:
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When Harry Met Sally (1989): Even the DVD cover bursts with fall, the titular characters walking in front of a wall of fall reds and yellows.
Meg Ryan serves looks in a slew of scarves and overcoats, and the style spans from the late 70s to the early 80s. An absolute can’t miss, if not for the romance, then for the love of the New York City in fall aesthetic.
Autumn in New York (2000): Winona Rider is a spooky fall queen—for further evidence, please reference her work in Edward Scissorhands, Heathers, Stranger Things, and Beetlejuice.
Centered on a love affair that only spans the fall season, we live with the characters as the leaves change, and they do, too.
You’ve Got Mail (1998): Another Meg Ryan showstopper, we see the cheeky ingenue take on a battle with a prominent bookstore chain owner while simultaneously engaging in a relationship with him anonymously online.
We get lovely bookstore scenes that feel like a warm escape from a crisp fall day, and of course, Meg’s short blonde hair tousled by the wind.
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Mystic Pizza (1988): This film is the pinnacle of east coast vicarious exhilaration—running around with teens and 20-somethings as they hang by the docks, wear chunky fall sweaters to the planetarium, and take rides through the fall foliage in a handsome young man’s convertible.
Through all the rainstorms and heartbreak, we’ll still have friends and the saving grace of a warm pizza to help our heroines through.
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Good Will Hunting (1997): In a sentence: Boston in the fall, the start of a new school year, and undiscovered genius.
When put together, these elements make the perfect formula for instant nostalgia, deep emotional exploration, healing, and the importance of mentorship in turning corners in our lives.
Dead Poet’s Society (1989): Another film centered on mentorship and academia, Robin Williams again delivers a stunning performance as an inspiring English teacher with a deep belief in the power of the written word.
Nothing feels like fall quite like a new school year, the smell of wet leaves and secret meetings in the backwoods of the school grounds.
Despite the tragedy of it all, we can still count on this film to bring us back to a time of youthful discoveries, new growth and change, and the loss of summer’s innocence with the falling leaves.
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