Now that I’ve given a name, “spider-web movies,” to those films that ensnare me on TV no matter how many times they’ve been televised, I keep running into – and getting trapped all over again by – more of them. Here’s another: a 1987 comedy classic starring Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Wallace Shawn, Robin Wright, Andre the Giant and more. I consider this, without question, one of the best family movies of its generation. Every actor, every scene in The Princess Bride is a priceless one – and most scenes provide at least one memorable catch phrase, Inconceivable.

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