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I decided to devote my inaugural list of movies about female friendship to movies where the friendship is a sidebar in the story rather than the main plot, on the grounds that this would make the list easier to write because I would have less to write about and therefore maybe I would be less prolix.
...Gentle readers, this was not the case. I am afraid that I am perpetually verbose and I am sorry.
( Onward to the movies! Black Swan, Hanna, New Waterford Girl, Piter FM, The Princess and the Frog, Winter's Bone )
I'm sure there are movies I've even forgotten or haven't seen yet that have wonderful female friendship subplots. In fact, I think these lists will be even more useful if people comment & make the case for movies that might fit that category. (Try to limit it to maybe two or three per comment? I know we all like to ramble on around here.)
It's actually cheered me up working on these lists and realizing that, even though female friendships are pretty rare in movies in the aggregate, I could actually list quite a few movies with good female friendships - many of them without anyone dying of cancer, even! - even though it did require some digging.
I'm thinking of trying to do a list a week till I run out of lists. Next week will be either Foreign Films (should have saved Piter FM, maybe!) or Friendship in the American South, a.k.a. "I'm pretty sure Steel Magnolias gave birth to it's own tiny subgenre."
...Gentle readers, this was not the case. I am afraid that I am perpetually verbose and I am sorry.
( Onward to the movies! Black Swan, Hanna, New Waterford Girl, Piter FM, The Princess and the Frog, Winter's Bone )
I'm sure there are movies I've even forgotten or haven't seen yet that have wonderful female friendship subplots. In fact, I think these lists will be even more useful if people comment & make the case for movies that might fit that category. (Try to limit it to maybe two or three per comment? I know we all like to ramble on around here.)
It's actually cheered me up working on these lists and realizing that, even though female friendships are pretty rare in movies in the aggregate, I could actually list quite a few movies with good female friendships - many of them without anyone dying of cancer, even! - even though it did require some digging.
I'm thinking of trying to do a list a week till I run out of lists. Next week will be either Foreign Films (should have saved Piter FM, maybe!) or Friendship in the American South, a.k.a. "I'm pretty sure Steel Magnolias gave birth to it's own tiny subgenre."
