I love movies. But I get so aggravated when I walk through Blockbuster Video with my high-school age son, Kevin, trying to find a movie that we can both watch together. One of the things I've started to insist on is that the movie actually include some women in roles other than sex object or victim awaiting rescue. That limits our choices dramatically. Recently, a friend shared with me a list she has been compiling of movies that are about women's lives. What a concept! I'm starting a Women's Movie Night with some of my friends so that we can work our way through this great list. I pass it on to you to enjoy and share with others.
MOVIES ABOUT WOMEN AND WOMEN'S LIVES
A League of Their Own
Algeria: Women at War
All About Eve
All About My Mother
American Quilt
American Violet
Antonia’s Line
Beaches
Bend It Like Beckham
Between The Lines
Bring it On
Daughters of the Dust
Diary of a Mad Black Woman
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Dream Life of Angels
Girlfriends
Entre Nous
Fried Green Tomatoes
Girl Interrupted
Heavenly Creatures
Housekeeping
In Her Shoes
Iron Jawed Angels
Joy Luck Club
Little Women
Mean Girls
Medea’s Family Reunion
Memoirs of a Geisha
Notes on a Scandal
Pray the Devil Back to Hell (Steinem recommends)
Real Women Have Curves
Revolutionary Road (Steinem recommendation)
Sense and Sensibility
Silkwood
Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants
Soul Food
Steel Magnolias
The Color Purple
The Devil Wears Prada
The First Wives Club
The Red Lantern
The Sisters
The Space Between Us
The Whales of August
The Women
The Women of Brewster Place
Thelma & Louise
Three Women
Volver
Waiting to Exhale
Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown
