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Fate, Potential, Destiny & Dream Jobs
This list of movies highlights films about people dealing with the hand fate has dealt them, exploring their potential and choosing their destiny. Many show the journey of discovering a dream job, changing careers or starting a dream business. So if you need to get inspired or find a few role models, take a look at these films. And if you would like to suggest a movie for this page, send us an e-mail.
Movie List
Baby Boom
(1987, PG, Drama, Diane Keaton, Sam Shepard)
An advertising executive (life path 3 and 8) adopts a child and changes her city life for the country, finding along the way that her gifts and talents for cooking (life path 2) and entrepreneurship (life path 8) can create a successful baby food business.
The Bourne Identity
(2002, PG-13, Action, Matt Damon, Chris Cooper)
A man suffering from amnesia realizes he is a spy (life path 5) and uses his skills at self defense and evasion (gifts and talents) to change his life and occupation.
Cast Away
(2000, PG-13, Drama, Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt)
An executive's (life path 8) life is changed dramatically when he is marooned on a deserted island, and he learns to survive and create a new way of being in the world.
A Christmas Carol / Scrooge
(1951, NR, Drama, Alaistair Sim, Kathleen Harrison)
A miserly and miserable business owner (life path 8) changes from a scrooge to a philanthropist (life path 9).
Cold Comfort Farm
(1994, PG, Drama, Kate Beckinsale, Rufus Sewell)
A young woman finds she has a gift for helping others find their potential, start new professions, and live a more extraordinary life.
Dave
(1993, PG-13, Drama, Kevin Klein, Sigourney Weaver)
The owner of a job agency (life path 8) stands in for the President (life path 8).
The Emperor's New Clothes
(2001, PG, Historical Comedy, Ian Holm)
Napolean Bonaparte (life path 5) puts his strategic and tactical skills (gifts and talents) to use when he escapes his exile and becomes a fruit seller (life path 8) in Paris.
Forrest Gump
(1994, PG-13, Drama, Tom Hanks, Sally Fields)
A man becomes a soldier (life path 5), professional athlete (life path 5) and an entrepreneur (life path 8) as he learns about live, love and friendship.
Greenfingers
(2000, R, Comedy, Clive Owen, Helen Mirren)
A young man in prison becomes a gardener (life path 2) when he finds he has a passion for gardening and a gift for growing things. Along his path, he faces self limiting beliefs and cultural assumptions about criminals (obstacles), as well as finding a mentor in a best selling writer of gardening books (life path 2 and 3).
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
(1998, R, Drama, Angela Bassett, Whoopi Goldberg)
An executive (life path 8) goes through a career crisis, is fired and rediscovers her passion for starting her dream business of being a furniture maker (life path 3).
A Knight's Tale
(2001, PG-13, Action, Heath Ledger, Rufus Sewell)
A young boy takes up the profession of knight (life path 5) when his employer dies and finds he has a talent for jousting, but he must overcome cultural taboos against commoners being able to rise above their assigned station in life if he is going to be successful in "changing his life by changing his stars".
Lord of the Ring Trilogy
(2001 - 2003, PG-13, Drama, Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen)
A young hobbit is called to become the bearer of the ring (life calling) to save Middle Earth (issue) and sets out on an adventure (life path 3), overcomes many hardships, and ends up a writer (life path 3).
My House In Umbria
(2003, NR, Drama, Maggie Smith)
A woman survives a tragic event and when she invites the other survivors to her house finds she has a gift for creating a home.
Phenomenon
(1996, PG, Drama, John Travolta, Robert Duvall)
A man has a mystical experience which opens up his potential, reveals unusual gifts and talents and challenges cultural taboos of what is possible for humans.
Pollyanna
(1960, NR, Drama, Haley Mills, Jane Wyman)
A young girl has a gift for seeing the silver lining behind events.
Regarding Henry
(1991, PG-13, Drama, Harrison Ford, Annette Bening)
A legal counselor (life path 2) is seriously wounded and the tragic event prompts his rediscovery of his potential and making choices for a new life.
Saving Private Ryan
(1998, R, Historical Drama, Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Vin Diesel)
A teacher (life path 6) becomes a soldier (life path 6) in WWI and helps to find a soldier who is destined to be sent home, and from all the sacrifices made on his behalf is challenged to live an extraordinary life.
Star Wars: Episode 4 - A New Hope
(1977, PG, Action, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford)
A mythic story told about an adventurer (life path 5) who joins forces with a young hero (life path 4), a cool princess and robots to help free the Empire from tyrants.
Stand and Deliver
(1988, PG, Drama, Edward James Olmos, Lou Diamond Phillips)
A teacher (life path 6) who has a gift for teaching math works to help children use education to transcend their life circumstances and overcome low cultural and economic expectations.
You've Got Mail
(1998, PG, Romantic Comedy, Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks)
Two book store owners (life path 8) fall in love. One is known for her flawless taste in children's books (gift and talent) and when she is forced to give up her business of selling children's books (activity), she begins a new career writing children's books (life path 3).
