What is the best or your favorite rags to riches movie?

Submitted by XenomorphXx121 t3_11b4awn in movies

My favorites are Trading Places, Slumdog Millionaire and Down and Out in Beverly Hills. I just love seeing movies with people going from being poor and succeeding and sometimes with overwhelming odds.

I also love The Star is Born which showed that an unknown becomes a someone and it isn't the bed of roses when they become a somebody and also The Greatest Showman.

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FreeGums t1_j9vwdga wrote

Wolf of Wall Street

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FreBerZ0 t1_j9vz720 wrote

Why are the upvotes so low? Those are rookie numbers.

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garrisontweed t1_j9vvkaj wrote

Brewster’s Millions

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XenomorphXx121 OP t1_j9vwfc3 wrote

John Candy and Richard Pryer, back when comedies were big at the box office. Love that movie.

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Cw2e t1_j9vv5lf wrote

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

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XenomorphXx121 OP t1_j9vvgzy wrote

Oh I love all Wes Anderson stuff, one of my favorites for sure.

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Ninjalikestoast t1_j9vvcog wrote

Rocky

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XenomorphXx121 OP t1_j9vvrzk wrote

Yeah, can hear the theme tune right now in my head

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Ninjalikestoast t1_j9vvz6g wrote

It’s the best. As a man, those training montages made me want to take over the world.

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XenomorphXx121 OP t1_j9vwnpy wrote

When he made it up them first steps I was cheering too, I also love the story behind the making of it that it was kind of rags to riches too in real life.

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Visual_Ad6816 t1_j9vx1ww wrote

Does Goodfellas count?

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ahmadinebro t1_j9vyspf wrote

Yeah, didn't you hear the Tony Bennet song?

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Visual_Ad6816 t1_j9w1afq wrote

Yeah that song was the first thing to come to mind when I saw the post lol

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dankmoot t1_j9w74m4 wrote

100%, but Marty always features the massive fall after. Goodfellas, Casino, Wolf of Wall Street, the Irishman (to some degree). Dizzying heights, momentous fall

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XenomorphXx121 OP t1_j9vx7je wrote

Yeah I guess, not done in a great way though but violent and bloody but it counts. Love Goodfellas though.

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Nizamark t1_j9vw8yt wrote

Citizen Kane

Hudsucker Proxy

Rocky

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

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XenomorphXx121 OP t1_j9vxmvu wrote

I've not seen Citizen Kane, seen bits but not all. Should I? Has it aged badly?

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LoveEffective1349 t1_j9w6gyr wrote

It’s sooo old that its technical achievements are worse than passé, but the dark story and its critique of western publishing “imperialism” is more relevant than ever.

As is its existential commentary on the nature of wealth and the American Dream.

I thought it was worth watching just to see what everyone was talking about.

I am less enthused with the direction and blocking than some, but still think it’s a decent picture.

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XenomorphXx121 OP t1_j9w6x80 wrote

Think I need to give it a watch, been praised by so many

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Duel_Option t1_j9x4v6o wrote

I still think it’s arguably the best movie ever made.

Place yourself in the time period when it released when you watch it, and think for a minute that none of the stuff he’s doing with the camera existed before him.

The makeup, all the actors came from stage never been in a movie before, Wells’ transformation into an old man, watch the scope of Xanadu, how the fuck did he create the depth/scope back then??? It’s sheer magic.

But all that’s superfluous, designed to trick you while Orson Wells spins a tale about a man of great power and wealth who dies alone.

The final quote wraps up the movie perfectly…

“He was a man who got everything and then again lost everything, Rosebud must've been something he lost or something he wanted but never got"

It’s a movie about what’s really important in life, what’s worth living for and the mistakes and regret of an old man.

I saw it at 9 and didn’t understand it, again at 15 and thought it had a message but was past it’s prime, again at 25 and it hit harder.

41 now, life is at the halfway point, shit hits even harder as you get older.

I hope you find it as intriguing as I always have…

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LalaPaintGirl t1_j9vwa6k wrote

8 mile

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XenomorphXx121 OP t1_j9vyzy4 wrote

Oh yeah, great movie. Well I think so

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justpayin t1_j9wiepf wrote

How is it rags to riches? He is still broke and homeless in the end of the movie

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LalaPaintGirl t1_j9wjygh wrote

Riches aren’t always about the money up front. The movie is a resemblance of his life and what it took to go from rags to riches. His confidence due to his perseverance gave him the drive to succeed. We already knew in the end he became a success.

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n3m37h t1_j9vxxcv wrote

How High - 2 black guys from the projects end up at Havard because they smoked weed that grew in a dead friend's ashes and he came to them as a ghost to give them all the answers.

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schadenfreudey t1_j9w0kga wrote

The Count of Monte Cristo

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lucia-pacciola t1_j9wd0jw wrote

Riches to rags to riches isn't quite the same thing.

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schadenfreudey t1_j9wj03b wrote

Did he come from riches though? I don’t think that is ever established. Mondego was rich and his best friend so I can see where that assumption would exist.

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lucia-pacciola t1_j9wkafb wrote

He was the senior officer of a trading ship belonging to a successful tradiing company. He was engaged to the daughter of the company's owner. He was well set up, career-wise, and stood to inherit a profitable business. Where he came from before that is not given much explanation, but he's definitely well off at the beginning of the story.

The story only works because he starts off with a lot to lose, and then loses it all.

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tonvlasman t1_j9vz8o5 wrote

Dolemite Is My Name.

The character doesn't end up with significant financial riches, but it's a heartwarming depiction of an ascent to underground/cult success amidst a lifetime of unsuccessful artistic pursuits eventually finding an audience.

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XenomorphXx121 OP t1_j9vzlb1 wrote

Love that movie, Eddie Murphy was great like back when he was at his peak.

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80schld t1_j9vwpez wrote

Scarface (De Palma’s) Brewsters Millions (Pryors)

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XenomorphXx121 OP t1_j9w05qp wrote

Everyday above ground is a good day especially when you have a million to give away

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ekydfejj t1_j9w3vwx wrote

Trading Places and Brewster's Millions. Though Brewster's had way to many of those....oh i almost lost, moments. But I love Richard and John, that cliche is easily forgiven.

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XenomorphXx121 OP t1_j9w4mhu wrote

I've been meaning to give it a rewatch, been ages since I saw it. Also now more old Richard Pryer Classics.

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ekydfejj t1_j9wflui wrote

I may say the same, i've been watching a bunch of older comedies that i thought had down/boring drawn out scenes and upon a re-watch, its just constant comedy. I also love Richard Pryor, his movies with Gene Wilder are fantastic, I guess Stir Crazy could fit in some alternate world, but they are all great.

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XenomorphXx121 OP t1_j9xiwfm wrote

Yeah great team up with Gene. Loved See no Evil, Hear no Evil and Silver Streak too.

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Insightseekertoo t1_j9xl851 wrote

I scrolled a long way but didn't see. "The Secret of my Success". Sure, it's 80s nostalgia for Michael J Fox, but it's got a great soundtrack if you like the 80s and cute movie.

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XenomorphXx121 OP t1_j9xlkm8 wrote

Yeah great movie, shame Michael J Fox ended up the way he is.

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Dude_and_The_Bug t1_j9vw0l6 wrote

Life Stinks…I guess it’s more riches to rags to riches, but yeah. That one. Overboard has a similar vibe, I guess. That’s quality too.

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darkbluera t1_j9vwl0w wrote

Jerry and Marge go Large

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Ok-Amphibian5353 t1_j9w03az wrote

Lowkey the first Jobs (2013) movie with ashton kutcher. Flopped in box office but was surprisingly good

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XenomorphXx121 OP t1_j9w0eii wrote

I love the story about Jobs how his life kind of guided him

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marvof_thedead t1_j9w311i wrote

Trading Places (1983)

Boiler Room (2000)

Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory (1971)

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crumbumcorvette t1_j9w9uje wrote

Shawshank redemption and if that doesnt count cinderella man

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44035 t1_j9wfu65 wrote

Mildred Pierce

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DJSchmidi t1_j9wgyuj wrote

Conan The Barbarian

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bolshevik_rattlehead t1_j9whi0n wrote

Well heck, cus I just watched it and haven’t stopped thinking about it since, I’ll say Barry Lyndon

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muser8 t1_j9wu02h wrote

Trading Places

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Happy_Chick21 t1_j9x0bhi wrote

I love The little princess. It's riches to rags and back to riches.

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europorn t1_j9xagvn wrote

Limitless with Bradley Cooper. He starts out as a struggling writer with writer's block and ends up running for the US senate.

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stavis23 t1_j9xhwgz wrote

Barry Lyndon- 1975, Kubrick’s period piece like none other, I think it’s the most beautiful film ever made. Ryan Oneal, Marisa Berenson, Schubert, Mozart, 18 century paintings, tragedy, humor. It’s spectacular, epic, poignant, superlative.

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XenomorphXx121 OP t1_j9xpxro wrote

The Man who Tom Hanks played actually died from a heart attack while staying at an airport, was homeless at the time in Sep 2022.

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dynobot7 t1_j9y6cli wrote

Doesn’t really fit the mold but Shawshank redemption! All time fav

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XenomorphXx121 OP t1_j9y6z64 wrote

Love Shawshank Redemption, I think the more riches he had gained were to his soul by the end

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[deleted] t1_j9vuqyz wrote

I always loved Curly Sue when I was younger.

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XenomorphXx121 OP t1_j9vv8og wrote

Can't remember if I've seen it, probably have. Went through a stage of watching all the Jim Belushi movies.

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ghost_toe t1_j9wblei wrote

The Founder. Michael Keaton was terrific as always.

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