Chick Flicks

So what are the prerequisites for a good quintessential chick flick? I generally say to each vagina her own . . . but when compiling my list I made several strict guidelines (just for shits and giggles and because I don't want this thing to go on forever).
1. Time period: 1980-on. Because I really don't want this thing to go on forever
2. Main character is always one female.
3. Main character always goes through some sort of transformation, she makes lots of self-realizations and she grows (and she CRIES). She tends to find balance between personal and professional goals.
4. In a good chick flick the main female character only ends up with her intended . . . if they're meant to be.

Pretty Woman . . . no explanation necessary.




Working Girl stars Melanie Griffith as Tess who shows you can win the game if you keep your heart in it. Always trust your heart . . . and ride the Staten Island Ferry when you need a break.




Raising Helen shows that even the "it" girl doesn't know what she's missing if she doesn't have true love and family in her life. Kate Hudson dazzles as Helen learns how to go from "Cool Aunt" to "Nurturing Mom." She surprises herself at the lengths to which she'll go to keep her family together, learning a lot about herself along the way.



Stealing Beauty, using the overwhelming natural beauty of Liv Tyler, tells the tale of a young woman learning the beauty of some of the darker sides of life. It's down-right awkward at points, and yet beauty radiates from the screen the whole time proving that life truly is beautiful.





How to Make an American Quilt and The Joy Luck Club are along the same vain. I know I said the movies would focus on one woman's story, but it most be noted that one woman IS a complex web of stories she has learned from the women who have shaped her life most.



Now while we're on the topic of "shaping one's life" a phenomenal film that deals with just that, memories . . . Eve's Bayou will chill you and thrill you. But don't take my humble opinion, listen to what these two "critics" have to say. It's not a chick flick, per se, but it's a film I would insist EVERYONE add to their must see lists.