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| 6 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Clockwise from top left]]''Film/MoscowOnTheHudson, Film/SweetheartsDance, Film/ImaginaryHeroes, Film/ImWithLucy, Film/MrJones, Film/YouLightUpMyLife, Film/LiesAndAlibis, Film/IfLucyFell''[[/labelnote]]]] |
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| 9 | ->''"Hold it, hold it. What is this? Are you trying to trick me? Where's the sports? Is this a ''kissing'' book?"'' |
| 10 | -->-- '''The Grandson''', ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' [[labelnote:*]]Incidentally, not a Chick Flick[[/labelnote]] |
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| 14 | The Chick Flick is a genre of movie which is nebulously defined, not by its content so much as its market, namely women. |
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| 16 | They tend to be romantic in content, whether drama, comedy, or [[{{Dramedy}} both]]. Women are likely to be noble victims or sassy, klutzy twentysomethings looking for love, and men either [[HandsomeLech charmers]] who may or may not be secret {{jerkass}}es or [[TheDitz hopelessly confused]] but sweet. Being centred around women you are also likely to encounter scenes of [[UsefulNotes/TheBechdelTest women actually talking about things other than men]] (though jealous {{Cat Fight}}s may turn up). |
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| 18 | Sometimes movies that don't fit this formula will be considered Chick Flicks simply because they feature a female protagonist. Or, for that matter, even having women in them for reasons other than {{Fanservice}}. However, a female protagonist is not actually necessary for a Chick Flick -- ''Film/MadeOfHonor'' or ''Film/WhatWomenWant'' for example both have male protagonists while still being clearly marketed at women. A male Chick Flick protagonist is likely to be a HandsomeLech who learns the error of his ways through coming to terms with his feelings for the female lead. |
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| 20 | RomanticComedy is an important SubGenre of the Chick Flick. It's worth noting that "rom-com" films are actually supposed to be popular because they serve both sexes as good date movies (romances are usually targeted at women, comedies are usually targeted at men). Some of the more successful examples do this right (usually if they have a decent comment to make [[MarsAndVenusGenderContrast on the nature of men and women]]), but for the most part, not so much. |
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| 22 | Another important genre is {{melodrama}} films, which amp up the perceived scale and emotional response on everything. Basically, every little hurdle becomes a mountain, every setback a {{tragedy}} of Greek proportions, and the official couple will be StarCrossedLovers over the tiniest things, usually thanks to outside interference and {{poor communication|Kills}}. Melodrama can quite easily hook viewers into becoming emotionally invested in the characters, even to the point of a {{Tear Jerker}} burst of weeping. Possibly the most triumphant example of this date-movie genre is the film ''Film/LoveStory'', which, according to legend, is responsible for more pregnancies than any other single film. |
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| 24 | The literary equivalent is ChickLit. The male equivalent is a work RatedMForManly. |
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| 26 | Compare/Contrast LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek, the dark, embittered and often [[RevengeAgainstMen vengeful]] EvilTwin of the ChickFlick. Some even say that Chick Flicks are what a woman's life is ''before'' marriage. [[LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek Lifetime Movies]] are what it is ''after'' she gets married. Also compare with {{Josei}} and {{Shoujo Demographic}}s. May be placed in the GirlShowGhetto. |
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| 28 | !!Examples: |
| 29 | |
| 30 | * ''Film/ThirteenGoingOnThirty'' |
| 31 | * ''Film/TwentySevenDresses'' |
| 32 | * ''Film/AsGoodAsItGets'' |
| 33 | * ''Film/{{Austenland}}'' |
| 34 | * ''Film/TheBabySittersClub'' |
| 35 | * ''Film/BagdadCafe''[[note]]The film is close to being JustForFun/TheTropelessTale, however.[[/note]] |
| 36 | * ''Film/Barbie2023'' |
| 37 | * ''Theatre/BarefootInThePark'' |
| 38 | * ''Film/{{Beaches}}'' |
| 39 | * ''Because I Said So'' |
| 40 | * ''Film/{{Bridesmaids}}'' |
| 41 | * ''Film/BrideWars'' |
| 42 | * ''Film/TheBridgesOfMadisonCounty'': A [[PlayingAgainstType different kind of film]] from Creator/ClintEastwood. |
| 43 | * ''Literature/BridgetJones' Diary'' and ''Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason'' |
| 44 | * ''Film/BriefEncounter'' |
| 45 | * ''Film/CalendarGirls'' |
| 46 | * ''Film/ChasingLiberty'' |
| 47 | * ''Film/{{Chocolat}}'' |
| 48 | * ''Film/ACinderellaStory'' |
| 49 | * ''Film/{{Clueless}}'': A SettingUpdate of Creator/JaneAusten's ''Emma''. |
| 50 | * ''Film/CompromisingPositions'' |
| 51 | * ''Film/ConfessionsOfAShopaholic'' |
| 52 | * ''Film/TheCraft'': A film that's part-chick flick, part-supernatural horror. |
| 53 | * ''Film/TheDevilWearsPrada'' |
| 54 | * ''Film/DirtyDancing'' |
| 55 | * ''Literature/DivineSecretsOfTheYaYaSisterhood'' 'Sisterhood' in the title is generally a giveaway. |
| 56 | * ''Film/TheDivorcee'' is a movie with a female protagonist that has to deal with a stable of handsome male admirers. One where she cries a lot. And her husband cheats on her. |
| 57 | * ''Film/DonJuanDeMarco'' |
| 58 | * ''Film/DownWithLove'' an AffectionateParody of romcoms from TheFifties. |
| 59 | * ''Film/TheDuchess'' which is about the complex love triangle between the duke, his wife and the duke's mistress Lady Bess Foster. |
| 60 | * ''Film/TheEarringsOfMadameDe'': A middle-aged woman caught between her cold, distant husband and her exciting, passionate lover. |
| 61 | * ''Film/EastLynne'': A noble, virtuous woman is victimized and buffeted by a heartless prig of a husband and an irresponsible, shiftless lover, is separated from her child, and goes through a series of traumas while dreaming only of seeing the baby again. |
| 62 | * ''Film/EnchantedApril'' |
| 63 | * ''Film/TheEnglishmanWhoWentUpAHillButCameDownAMountain'' This one can also work for straight guys who enjoy subtler comedies (there must be ''some'' straights like that yet to be discovered.) |
| 64 | * ''Film/{{Enough}}''. Well, perhaps not a chick flick so much as a big-screen LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek. |
| 65 | * ''Film/ErinBrockovich'' |
| 66 | * ''Film/EverAfter'' |
| 67 | * ''Film/TheFaultInOurStars'' |
| 68 | * ''Film/FeverPitch'' |
| 69 | * ''Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' |
| 70 | * ''Film/FourWeddingsAndAFuneral'' |
| 71 | * ''Film/FriedGreenTomatoes'' - A rarity for being about something else than shopping, love or men. It's about friendship between grown, mature-minded women past their teens. |
| 72 | * ''Film/FunnyGirl'' |
| 73 | * ''Film/{{Ghost|1990}}'' |
| 74 | * ''Film/TheGhostAndMrsMuir'' |
| 75 | * ''Film/{{Grease}}'' |
| 76 | * ''Film/Grease2'' |
| 77 | * ''Film/TheGreatLie'' |
| 78 | * The ''Film/HarryPotter'' movies |
| 79 | * ''Film/TheHelp'' |
| 80 | * ''Film/HowToLoseAGuyIn10Days'' (Indeed, a great deal of Matthew [=McConaughey=]'s output falls into this) |
| 81 | * ''Film/HowStellaGotHerGrooveBack'' |
| 82 | * ''Film/ILoveYouToo'' |
| 83 | * ''Literature/InHerShoes'' |
| 84 | * ''Film/TheJaneAustenBookClub'' |
| 85 | * ''Film/{{Julia}}'' |
| 86 | * ''Film/JulieAndJulia'' (no connection with the above movie) |
| 87 | * ''Film/JustLikeHeaven'' from the same director of ''Film/MeanGirls''. |
| 88 | * ''Film/KateAndLeopold'' |
| 89 | * ''Film/KittyFoyle'' -- Creator/GingerRogers as, yes, a sassy career girl looking for love |
| 90 | * ''Film/LegallyBlonde'' |
| 91 | * ''Film/LittleBlackBook'' |
| 92 | * ''Literature/LittleWomen'' Any and all versions. |
| 93 | * ''Film/LoveActually'' |
| 94 | * ''Film/LoveAffair'' and its remake, ''Film/AnAffairToRemember'' |
| 95 | * ''Film/LoveStory'' |
| 96 | * ''Film/MadeOfHonor'' |
| 97 | * ''Film/MagnificentObsession'' -- melodramatic romance involving tragic deaths and blindness and brain tumors |
| 98 | * ''Film/MarieAntoinette2006'' |
| 99 | * ''Film/MaidInManhattan'' |
| 100 | * ''Film/MammaMia'', at least in movie form, is a ChickFlick through and through. |
| 101 | * ''Film/MeanGirls'' |
| 102 | * ''Film/MildredPierce'' -- one that's of the FilmNoir variety. |
| 103 | * ''Film/{{Millie}}'' -- Female protagonist disappointed and betrayed by a succession of men, until she sacrifices herself for the welfare of her daughter. |
| 104 | * ''Film/MirrorMirror2012'' |
| 105 | * ''Film/MonaLisaSmile'' |
| 106 | * ''Film/MonsterInLaw'' |
| 107 | * ''Film/{{Moonstruck}}'' |
| 108 | * ''Film/MusicAndLyrics'' |
| 109 | * ''Film/MustLoveDogs'' |
| 110 | * ''Film/MyBestFriendsWedding'' |
| 111 | * ''Film/MyBigFatGreekWedding'' |
| 112 | * ''Film/MyBrilliantCareer'' A criminally-overlooked Australian gem. |
| 113 | * ''Film/NeverBeenKissed'' |
| 114 | * ''Film/TheNotebook'' |
| 115 | * ''Film/NottingHill'' |
| 116 | * ''Film/NowVoyager'' |
| 117 | * ''Film/OffTheRails2021'' |
| 118 | * ''Film/TheOtherBoleynGirl'' where history's Henry VIII is torn between the ladylike Mary and her scheming sister Anne Boleyn. |
| 119 | * ''Film/OutOfAfrica'' |
| 120 | * ''Film/PersonalBest'' Rare but valid evidence that chick flicks and athletics don't have to be mutually exclusive. |
| 121 | * ''Film/PeytonPlace'' -- soapy melodrama with rape, murder, and a central plot line being the estrangement between a mother and daughter |
| 122 | * ''Film/ThePhiladelphiaStory'' |
| 123 | * ''Film/PillowTalk'' |
| 124 | * ''Film/PrettyWoman'' |
| 125 | * ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries'' and its sequel. |
| 126 | * ''Film/PrivateBenjamin'' |
| 127 | * ''Film/TheProposal'' |
| 128 | * ''Film/PSILoveYou'' |
| 129 | * ''Film/RomanHoliday'' Perhaps a borderline case; the runaway-princess plot is chick fodder, but this movie also includes the male-pleasing sight of Creator/AudreyHepburn riding a Vespa (she also gets to bash a guitar over a guy's head.) |
| 130 | * ''Film/RomancingTheStone'' |
| 131 | * ''Film/RomyAndMichelesHighSchoolReunion'' |
| 132 | * ''Film/RumorHasIt'' |
| 133 | * ''Film/RunAwayBride'' |
| 134 | * ''Sabrina'', both versions: |
| 135 | ** ''Film/Sabrina1954'' |
| 136 | ** ''Film/Sabrina1995'' |
| 137 | * The ''Film/SexAndTheCity'' movies. |
| 138 | * ''Film/ShesTheMan'' |
| 139 | * ''Film/TheShopAroundTheCorner''- this is the original version of ''Film/YouveGotMail''. |
| 140 | * ''Film/TheSisterhoodOfTheTravelingPants'' |
| 141 | * ''Film/SixteenCandles'' |
| 142 | * ''Film/SleeplessInSeattle'', which for good measure includes chick flick ''Film/AnAffairToRemember'' as a recurring joke. |
| 143 | * ''Film/SomethingBorrowed'' |
| 144 | * ''Film/{{Splash}}'' with a [[InvertedTrope non-]]RomanticPlotTumor dominating the second half. |
| 145 | * ''Film/SteelMagnolias'' |
| 146 | * ''Film/{{Stella Dallas|1937}}'' |
| 147 | * ''Film/{{Stepmom}}'' |
| 148 | * ''Film/AStolenLife'' |
| 149 | * ''Film/SweetHomeAlabama'' |
| 150 | * ''Film/TermsOfEndearment'' |
| 151 | * ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise'' |
| 152 | * ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'', though it was originally anticipated as a DisasterMovie before it came out. |
| 153 | * ''Film/ToAllTheBoysIveLovedBefore'' |
| 154 | * ''Film/ToEachHisOwn'': Olivia de Havilland left with SomeoneToRememberHimBy |
| 155 | * ''Film/TheTurningPoint1977'' |
| 156 | * The ''Film/{{Twilight}}'' movies. |
| 157 | * ''Film/TwoWeeksNotice'' |
| 158 | * ''Film/VenusBeautyInstitute'' - French film in which a 40-year-old beautician with a fear of commitment is surprised to find herself in a romance with a younger man. |
| 159 | * ''Film/TheWeddingPlanner'' |
| 160 | * ''Film/WaitingToExhale'' - A much more bitter take on this than usual. |
| 161 | * ''Film/AWalkToRemember'' |
| 162 | * ''Film/WhatWomenWant'' |
| 163 | * ''Film/WhenHarryMetSally'' |
| 164 | * ''Film/WhileYouWereSleeping'' |
| 165 | * ''Theatre/TheWomen'' |
| 166 | * ''Film/{{Yentl}}'' |
| 167 | * ''Film/TheYoungVictoria'' about the famous British queen growing up. |
| 168 | * ''Film/YouveGotMail'' |
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