Movies for Girls Everywhere

Chicago – This movie is questionable by a lot of standards, but I loved it. There are a lot of suggestive themes and it's a little racy (or so I've heard said) but I really enjoyed it. The music is great, the story is entertaining and the Lawyers tap-dance at near the end is fantastic. I'd love to own this one, but  it's not one I'd want my kids to watch until they're much much older.

 

Beauty Shop – Another Queen Latifa movie about accomplishing your dreams.

 

Blast from the Past – "Poison gas!" This movie is just too funny. I loved it. A family is trapped in a bomb shelter for 30 years and when they finally send their now adult son out to see what happened to the world hilarity ensues and Brendan Fraser isn't bad to look at either.

 

Bedazzled – This movie is a classic in it's own right. I love it. Brendan Fraser is a loser who just wants to get the girl so he makes a deal with the Devil. Nothing works out right and he has to learn that he's okay and he needs his soul back. Love is resolved in the end and he lives happily ever after.

 

Mrs. Winterbourne - A woman gets pregnant, boyfriend leaves her. She boards a train, which crashes and she ends up in a hospital, mistakenly identified as Patricia Winterbourne, a who died with her husband when the train crashed. She comes to live with the rich family of her deceased "husband." She falls in love with dead husband's brother and her new life is ruined when the real father of her baby comes back It's okay it does have a happy ending. I really liked it.

 

While You Were Sleeping – "These mashed potatoes are so creamy" This is a must see for any movie list. Girl falls in love with man she's never met. Saves his life then is mistaken for his fiancée and get taken in by his family only to fall in love with first guys brother.  

 

A Walk in the Clouds – I'm not a fan of Keanu Reeves but this movie was pretty good. Man meets pregnant woman on bus on her way home to help with the grape harvest and face her Old World domineering dad. The woman is not married and she thinks her father is going to kill her. Man poses as her husband to help her face her father. They fall in love trouble comes and then they must overcome all odds to be together.

 

Under the Tuscan Sun – While on vacation, a just-divorced writer buys a villa in Tuscany on a whim, hoping it will be the start of a change for the better in her life.

 

School Ties – A Jewish boy goes to an elite prep school in the 1950's and hides his religion until a jealousy forces it out in the open. This movie was pretty good. I'd recommend tissues.

 

The Prince and Me –American college student falls in love with one of her classmates, but what she doesn't know is that he's actually a Danish prince going incognito at an American college. He goes home to be king and she follows him. Family doesn't like her but in they end they are all happy and the should live happily ever after. The end of the movie was disappointing as she chooses college over the man but thanks to sequels they get back together in The Prince and Me II.

 

Dead Poets Society – "Oh, Captain, My Captain"  This movie is a tear jerker. It's about a group of young men who decide to be their own people and not follow the dictates of others. The main message of this movie is that "when faced with conformity that does not distinguish between man and society, it is mans responsibility to himself to stand up for what he believes is right, and not what others tell him is just."

 

Swing Kids – "Swing Heil!" This is the story of a group of Swing Kids and how Nazi rule and persuasion tore them apart and set them against each other. I had liked Big Band music before seeing this movie, and after seeing this movie I loved Big Band music. Doesn't hurt that Christian Bale is in this one. :)

 

Dreamer – Little girl falls in love with injured horse. Father spends his time and money helping horse heal. Horse wins big race. This movie fits in to the "cute" group. I really liked the movie, my husband says it is 2 hours of his life he'll never get back.

 

Mr. Wrong – "Do you think I love you enough to break my finger?" Please watch While you Were Sleeping BEFORE watching this. Bill Pullman is crazy and you'll never look at him the same again. I loved this movie it was laugh out loud funny.

 

Only You – "Italy!? What's my wife doing in Italy?" As a young girl the main character is told she'll marry someone named Damon Bradley. She spends her life dreaming about meeting this soul mate and when a change comes to find Damon Bradley she skips out on her wedding and flies to Italy. She falls in love with Robert Downey Jr. who says he is Damon Bradley but he isn't really she's hurt that he lied but in the end they are together. This movie was cute and funny and I really liked it.