EMN Marathons - Movies
EMN Movies is a channel that started out of a desire to have a channel that was only playing our absolute favorite movies 24/7. It was mostly a fun thought experiment that we decided to roll with, and it's always being added to. For the most part, any movie on this channel is part of other channel lineups, so details about them can be found there, or you can look at both mine and Mandy's favorite movies lists (as of mid-2023) to see our starting point. There is at least one movie that is exclusive to this channel, however...
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Year: 2003
Synopsis: Perpetually-unlucky kid Stanley Yelnats is sent to a corrective facility in the desert after being convicted of a crime he didn't commit.
EMN Notes: In so many ways, this is the movie that created EMN. It's an obviously incredible film, almost as perfect an adaptation of a great book as you're going to get, with any concessions or changes made to be understandable - the yellow-spotted lizards having an indicative name, for example - and it has this biting energy and magic to it that makes it unbelievable it came out at all. But if it wasn't for Mandy and I seeing this movie in a hotel room at a convention while extremely tired and overwhelmed, the idea of what we wanted EMN to feel like never would have sprouted in our brains. It was the perfect movie at the perfect time, existing to give us a little oasis when we needed it most. I'm not sure why we never put this movie on main EMN, but I think it's perfect here, a little reminder of what we started with.