The Rice University Neologisms Database

of or pertaining to a movie (involving friendship) that one watches with a good friend (a feel-good movie) For a long time, there have been movies that make people feel good about themselves, about others, and about the world in general. These are called 'feel-good movies.' More specifically, films that deal with the bond of friendship have been dubbed 'buddy-movies,' because people go to see them with their buddies. These movies may also have been so named because they most probably have buddies as their main characters. Because this word has come into everyday usage, it is not surprising that some have zero-derived it into an adjective for describing things that are "buddy-movie-like."