True Confessions You’re Not The Only One Watching The Same Movie More Than Once - Stars Share Their Favorites

What movie are you addicted to? That’s what we asked 50 celebrities to confess. What film stops ‘em cold whenever they’re channel surfing in the middle of the night. Which one can they see again and again and again?

Keanu Reeves (actor, “Speed”). “I can see ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ a hundred times and never get bored with it. Basically, I’m a major Stanley Kubrick fan. I think he’s one of the most talented directors. I can see his movies over and over again. He is so daring.”

Steve Martin (actor-writer, “Roxanne”). “I’m a sucker for oldies like ‘The Music Man.’ That always stops me when I’m changing channels. I’ve always loved the musical; there’s something so perfect about it, so integrated, so happy. Why don’t I do one? I have one problem: no singing voice.”

Sigourney Weaver (actress, “Alien”). “I just love ‘Ninotchka.’ I love Melvyn Douglas, Greta Garbo and all the actors in it. Such a great ensemble.”

Jeff Bridges (actor, “The Fisher King”). “Whenever I push the clicker and watch the tube and ‘The Godfather’ comes on the screen, I say, ‘Oh, I’ll watch a couple of scenes.’ I end up seeing the whole thing.”

Alec Baldwin (actor, “The Shadow”). “When I was younger, I saw ‘Five Graves to Cairo’ 10 times. I thought it was a great movie. Why? Because it had Franchot Tone and Akim Tamiroff. Franchot Tone was a great actor, very underrated in his time.”

Jim Carrey (actor, “Batman Forever”). “When I was a kid in Canada, I watched ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’ whenever I could. I loved Jimmy Stewart. When video started up, I’d rent the picture and watch it and take it to bed, actually with the cassette on my chest and pray that someday I’d do something like that. I could recite the filibuster speech verbatim.”

Gene Hackman (actor, “The Quick and the Dead”) “During the past year my wife and I have been watching ‘Jurassic Park.’ I think we’ve seen it four times. I don’t quite understand why I love that film so much. ‘Love’ is too strong a word. I find it fascinating.”

Terence Stamp (actor, “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert”). “The Tyrone Power version of ‘The Razor’s Edge.’ If you include subject matter in the greatness of films - ‘Citizen Kane’ is a great film, but it’s not about anything - ‘The Razor’s Edge is great.’ It is about something: a man in search of himself.”

Whoopi Goldberg (actress, “Boys on the Side”). “I love ‘The Godfather,’ and I can see it anytime. It’s just a great, great movie. Also, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’ “

Helen Mirren (actress, “Prime Suspect”). “Of course ‘Citizen Kane’ is a movie I can see over and over again. Once you get past the story and the character, it’s fascinating to watch the camera moves.”

Sharon Stone (actress, “Casino”). “I love to see Disney’s animated film of ‘The Jungle Book.’ It had incredible actors as the voices, especially George Sanders as the villain. The jazz of that period was really unbelievable, and Louis Prima, a great jazz musician, played the king monkey. Great stuff.”

Jeff Daniels (actor, “Dumb and Dumber”). ” ‘The Out-of-Towners’ with Jack Lemmon. Critics rip it. Jack Lemmon’s biography barely mentions it. Lemmon does the big, believable comedy that I try to do sometimes. I just think Lemmon was one of the best at it. That picture, and also ‘Dog Day Afternoon,’ because I was in college when I saw it. I saw Pacino, and I said, ‘That’s what I want to try to do.’ “

Dennis Hopper (actor, “Waterworld”). “The first thing that comes to mind is ‘The Magnificent Ambersons.’ Funny, because that was a picture Orson Welles didn’t like. I love that movie. I never tire of it. He always claimed that it was ruined in the editing, but I always thought it was great.”

Bob Hope (actor, “Facts of Life”). “Charlie Chaplin was my idol when I was a kid. I used to do Chaplin imitations on amateur nights. I guess ‘The Gold Rush’ was my favorite; you can find new things in it every time you see it. I made four pictures with Paulette Goddard, who was married to Chaplin at the time. He always looked at all her footage.”

Kevin Costner (actor, “Waterworld”). ” ‘The Wizard of Oz.’ I always see new things. I continue to watch it, and mentally I go, ‘There’s nothing new in here that I’m going to see.’ But I do. I consciously did that exercise 10 to 12 times. It’s such a detail-oriented movie.”

John Singleton (writer-director, “Boyz N the Hood”).” ‘Star Wars’ still fascinates me. Many imitations have followed, but none can approach it. Everything about it was original.”

Emma Thompson (actress, “Junior”). ” ‘Les Enfants du Paradis’ is my favorite film. I never tire of it. So many memorable moments. The first close-up of Jean-Louis Barrault standing at the bar, talking to the grand actor, is one of the most beautiful moments on film.”

Kevin Bacon (actor, “The River Wild”). “I love to watch ‘This Is Spinal Tap.’ Why? It kills me. It just makes me laugh. Every time I see it, I see something new. I must have seen it 10 times, and that’s a lot for me.”

Brendan Fraser (actor, “With Honors”). “One of my favorite films that I watch every year is ‘A Christmas Story.’ It’s just such a down-home film. It’s about a kid who wants a Red Ryder BB gun and all he goes through to get it. And when he gets it, he didn’t really want it in the first place. It’s a sweet picture.”

Nora Ephron (writer-director, “Mixed Nuts”). “You know what we watch every Christmas as a ritual? Both parts of ‘The Godfather.’ Most people are watching ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ and we’re watching ‘The Godfather.’ We can see it every single year and be constantly amazed by new things in it. A couple of years ago, I read the book again, just because I’d forgotten it.”

Lloyd Bridges (actor, “Hot Shots!”). “I see ‘Casablanca’ a lot. I see things in it that make me realize Bogie gave the impression that he wasn’t a real actor. But he was. I did a picture with him, ‘Sahara,’ but I didn’t have much to do in it. He was wonderful.”

Ted Danson (actor, “Three Men and a Baby”). “There are two answers. One is in danger of making me seem shallow, but ‘Charade’ makes me feel good whenever I see it. I loved Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn - I even loved the villains. Some movies just make me feel good because they remind me of a more carefree time. The other choice is the first ‘Godfather,’ which I’ve watched a handful of times. It’s amazing.”

Tim Curry (actor, “The Shadow”) “I’d have to say ‘Don’t Look Now,’ a Nicolas Roeg film with Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie. I loved that film. Roeg has made several movies that played around with time. ‘Don’t Look Now’ exists on the border of the real and the surreal in a very, very interesting way. And it’s set in the most beautiful city in the world, Venice. I think it’s a truly horrific film without being knee-deep in gore.”

Adam Sandler (actor, “Billy Madison”). “‘Caddyshack’ - that is my generation’s choice of a comedy. Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight - they were all great. I hope someday I’ll be asked to do ‘Caddyshack III.”’

Nicolas Cage (actor, “Kiss of Death”). “I saw ‘A Clockwork Orange’ when I was a teenager, and it had a profound impression on me. It was my introduction to violence and the nature of violence as a necessary emotion, which was a complex thought for a young teenager.”

Forest Whitaker (actor, “The Crying Game”). “I watch ‘The Fisher King’ again and again; I like that film. It’s mythical and spiritual as well as personal. And it has conscience, it has a heart.”

Faye Dunaway (actress, “Don Juan DeMarco”). “I have seen ‘Rules of the Game’ many times, and I love it. I don’t quite know why. I love ‘France.’ I love the notion of people coming together in that country setting, the chasing, the kind of broken-downness of the lives.”

Kenneth Branagh (actor-director, Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”). “Strange choice: ‘The Great Escape.’ Retrospectively, I think of its time and it’s very, very well-made. A great story that really engaged you, with some touching moments in it. I can do many of the scenes from it. Donald Pleasence and James Garner stealing the airplane. Charles Bronson in the boat with James Coburn. Then that wonderful moment when Richard Attenborough and Gordon Jackson are getting on the bus, and they nearly get away with it. Then the German officer says to Gordon Jackson in English, ‘Good luck.’ And he says, ‘Thanks.’ And they caught him.”

Anthony LaPaglia (actor, “The Client”). “Anything by Preston Sturges. Like ‘Sullivan’s Travels,’ ‘The Palm Beach Story,’ ‘The Great McGinty.’ His writing was so sharp, so crisp, so funny. The way he defined characters was just amazing - you can see the films over and over.”

Drew Barrymore (actress, “Batman Forever”). “Every time I see ‘Annie Hall,’ I learn another line I might have missed. It’s such a brilliant movie that you can hear the punch lines over and over and still laugh.”

Danny DeVito (director, “Hoffa”). “I guess you could see ‘Citizen Kane’ over and over. I love watching Woody Allen’s movies over and over again. And ‘8-1/2’ - I can always watch ‘8-1/2’ again.”

Tom Hulce (actor, “Parenthood”). “I used to travel with ‘Tootsie,’ which I thought was an amazing piece of filmmaking. I always take a movie when I travel, because enjoying a good movie can put me to sleep. So I saw ‘Tootsie’ about 30 times, but it was in the interest of getting a good night’s sleep. It was brilliantly written, with a combination of extraordinary performances.”

Charlie Sheen (actor, “Terminal Velocity”). “The first ‘Jaws.’ Why? I dunno. I have a fascination for sharks. It still holds up. I’ve seen it 93 times. Me and my brother (Emilio Estevez), we quote it, we do all the monologues. ‘Jaws’ - and also ‘Apocalypse Now.’ We can never get enough of ‘Apocalypse.”’

Jeroen Krabbe (actor, “The Fugitive”). “The Visconti film ‘Death in Venice’ I can see over and over again. It’s not about death; it’s about life. It has incredible performances, particularly Dirk Bogarde’s. It’s the truth about life: you’re looking for something and you can’t get it. And when you get it, you die. It’s true.”

Michael Wadleigh (filmmaker, “Woodstock”). “Here we are, 50 years’ down the line, and I still think ‘Citizen Kane’ is the best movie ever made. I look at that many times, and I say, the invention of the photography and the damn script! I’m interested in politics and society. What an incredible piece of a man’s life with social issues and everything.”

Kris Kristofferson (actor, “A Star Is Born”). ” ‘La Strada’ is a piece of art that I find absolutely believable every time I see it. The performances are wonderful, and the direction is wonderful. Things that I have done myself, I can’t see more than twice.”

Ed Asner (actor, “Lou Grant”). “I can’t see a movie too many times, but I guess I saw ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ six or eight times. It was a beautiful fairy tale. I loved Henry Traver’s work as the angel Clarence. Then I switched to ‘The Best Years of Our Lives.’ I go nuts watching Fredric March, he was just so good.”