It was Quentin Tarantino who came up with 'hangout film', an umbrella term to describe films that are not in a hurry to get anywhere.

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Ten ultimate hangout films you can rewatch multiple times

Naturally, one finds the urge to go back to such films again and again. Below is a list of films with high rewatch value:

Sajin Shriijth

Published:14th Mar, 2020 at 2:32 PM

These are films that don't follow a rigid structure & feature characters with whom you'd like to 'hang out' with - films that take pleasure in quiet moments. Below are our recommendations on the genre

1. Barry Levinson's supremely entertaining adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel, Get Shorty(1995), has gangsters, financiers, and filmmakers.

In Get Shorty, John Travolta plays Chilli Palmer, a shylock who gets mixed up in the business of a B-movie director, actress, an actor and three gangsters

2. Jackie Brown, another near faithful Elmore Leonard adaptation, this crime caper serves as a prime example of the hangout genre. It's Tarantino's most mature as well as his least violent film

Jackie Brown luxuriates in long passages of immersive dialogues, especially those spoken by Samuel Jackson, Pam Grier, and Robert Forster

3. What if the only lawyer coming to your aid happens to be not only incompetent and inexperienced but also something of a rebel? Joe Pesci plays such a lawyer in My Cousin Vinny

As Pesci's girlfriend, Marisa Tomei won a well-deserved Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. My Cousin Vinny has some of the most hilarious moments ever put to film

4. Another comic caper with very high replay value, Midnight Run rides on the fantastic chemistry between Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin who play an embittered bounty hunter and a mob accountant

The unlikely duo joins hands in Midnight Run to take down a mafia boss and evade rival bounty hunters

5. No movie has been able to blend the war, heist, and western genres so beautifully as Kelly Heroes.

Kelly's Heroes was one of Quentin Tarantino's influences for Inglourious Basterds. He even used a musical piece from Kelly's Heroes as part of Basterds' soundtrack.

6.Robert De Niro got to showcase his comic skills once again in Analyze This (1999), a witty gangster comedy. Billy Crystal plays a therapist tasked to free a mobster (De Niro) from his anxiety issues

Most of the wit in Analyse This is drawn from the two characters' exchanges and the occasional comical references to films such as The Godfather

7. The characters in Richard Linklater's high-school comedy-drama, Dazed and Confused, do nothing much other than chilling out throughout the entire film

Dazed and Confused's largely young cast comprises Ben Affleck (as a senior trying to rag the main characters) and Mathew McConaughey (as a senior who can't get enough of high school)

8. Watching The Big Lebowski is a Zen-like experience. The lead character, Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, is a guy who drifts through life content with whatever he has.

Lebowski finds pleasure in the smallest things and takes things as they come even when his life is continually complicated by darkly humorous situations

9. In Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino transports us to 1969, a time when a new generation of filmmakers with unconventional and radical ideas were flooding Hollywood

The filmmaker, who grew up in that time, immerses us in the beautifully recreated details of the period in Once Upon A Time in Hollywood. It is closer in mood to Jackie Brown and Dazed and Confused.

10. What would happen if a predominantly white town wakes up to the news of a black man being appointed Sheriff? Nobody did spoof movies like Mel Brooks in Blazing Saddles.

Blazing Saddles, a crazy, outrageous and ingenious 1974 western parody, took as much guts as it did brains. If this film were made today, it would probably be ripped apart by the Twitter woke brigade.