![]() “Rain Man” (1988) – “I Saw Her Standing There” It’s just a quick verse, but Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman sharing the Beatles song “I Saw Her Standing There” comes at an emotional turning point in Barry Levinson’s film, when Charlie Babbitt finally realizes it was his brother Raymond he remembered singing to him as a child. “Withnail and I” (1987) – “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” It helps when George Harrison is actually an executive producer on your movie, but the pin drop of Eric Clapton’s guitar solo makes for a beautifully surreal and exciting moment in “Withnail & I,” Bruce Robinson’s autobiographical and alcohol soaked odyssey and cult classic. It’s a movie moment and song so fun that it inspires the entire city to spontaneously get up and dance or even cartwheel through the air. “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” (1986) – “Twist and Shout” As a little kid growing up in the suburbs of Chicago not long after this movie was released, I may or may not have tried to impersonate Ferris Bueller’s lip syncing to The Beatles version of “Twist and Shout,” furiously stomping my feet in unison to the “shake it, shake it, shake it, baby now!” bit at the end. As he steps back into 1960s New York to look back on the memories of his former life, Morricone’s score blends into a rendition of “Yesterday” that is as forlorn as the movie itself. “Once Upon a Time in America” (1984) – “Yesterday” In this wistful moment in Sergio Leone’s sprawling epic “Once Upon a Time in America,” Robert De Niro plays a gangster leaving New York to the sound of an old fashioned, Ennio Morricone score, only to return years later as a now worn old man. ![]() And to make this list manageable, we’re excluding movies that exclusively use Beatles songs like “Across the Universe,” “I Am Sam” as well as The Beatles own movies “A Hard Day’s Night,” “Help!” and “Yellow Submarine.” ![]() That said, Beatles songs are expensive, and only so many films have managed to hit that perfect note. The new movie “Yesterday” imagines what it would be like if no one had ever heard of The Beatles, and as one woman says in the film, “the world is a worse place without The Beatles music in it.” But several great films would also be worse off without the songs of the Fab Four. “The Royal Tenenbaums,” “The Social Network” and “Withnail & I” have all made use of classics by the Fab Four ![]()
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