History TrueCompanions / Film

* ''BackToTheFuture'': [[RidiculouslyAverageGuy Marty]] [[OnlySaneMan McFly]] and [[BunnyEarsLawyer Doc]] [[ReluctantMadScientist Brown]] have a [[OddFriendship very strange]] but very strong bond. They are separated by interests and [[IntergenerationalFriendship age]], but they would [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice themselves]] for each other without a second thought.

* TheFastAndTheFurious team is this and is also one big happy surrogate family. It shows in Fast Five and Fast Six the most, but the bond is there. Dominic Toretto is the biggest example of this with his mantra of "You don't turn your back on family, even if they've turned their backs on you.".

* TomHanks' group of soldiers in ''SavingPrivateRyan''.

* Stretch, Spoon and Cookie are true companions in ''[[Film/{{Gridlockd}} Gridlock'd]]''. The group is a jazz trio who live together. Cookie has sex with both men, and the only reason they don't have threesomes is that Stretch says he can't get it up "in a crowd." Although both Spoon and Cookie are black, Stretch has NWordPrivileges with them. The group is so close that they all use the same bathroom at the same time.
* "The Club"[[hottip:*:Linda refers to it once as the "Johnny, Julia, Nick, and Susan Club", but thereafter calls it "The Club" for short.]] from ''{{Film/Holiday}}''. Linda initially conceives it as all of John and Julia's friends put together, but in practice it ends up being Linda, John, and John's friends Nick and Susan, with an extra chair for Linda's brother Ned. They identify themselves as Very Unimportant People with no interest in being snobs or stuffed shirts, who enjoy play, fun, and adventure, and who want to make money only insofar as it allows them to lead better lives. Julia declines to join them.

* Todd Browning's ''{{Freaks}}'' centers on a group of circus "freaks," including a couple of folks with dwarfism, an intersex "half-man, half-woman," a pair of cojoined twins, a fellow with no limbs, etc. A "normal" trapeze artist marries one of the "midgets," and is treated to a wedding feast by his true companions, who cheer their friend's fortune, and welcome the aerialist as "One of us!" in the film's most memorable scene. [[spoiler: When it's revealed that she only married him so that she could get to his money, kill him, and run off with her boyfriend, the pissed-off "Freaks" take revenge on her and the boyfriend, mutilating them and condemning ''them'' to a life as freaks, but without the solidarity of the others that made such a fate tolerable.]]

* "The Club"[[hottip:*:Linda refers to it once as the "Johnny, Julia, Nick, and Susan Club", but thereafter calls it "The Club" for short.]] from ''{{Holiday}}''. Linda initially conceives it as all of John and Julia's friends put together, but in practice it ends up being Linda, John, and John's friends Nick and Susan, with an extra chair for Linda's brother Ned. They identify themselves as Very Unimportant People with no interest in being snobs or stuffed shirts, who enjoy play, fun, and adventure, and who want to make money only insofar as it allows them to lead better lives. Julia declines to join them.

* Stretch, Spoon and Cookie are true companions in ''[[Film/{{Gridlockd}} Gridlock'd]]''. The group is a jazz trio who live together. Cookie has sex with both men, and the only reason they don't have threesomes is that Stretch says he can't get it up "in a crowd." Although both Spoon and Cookie are black, Stretch has NWordPrivileges with them. The group is so close that they all use the same bathroom at the same time.

* [[BandOfBrothers The Fellowship of the Ring]] from ''TheLordOfTheRings'' definitely qualifies. Many of the members [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits don't even know each other at first]], but they become FireForgedFriends and [[IOweYouMyLife risk their lives]] for each other repeatedly. When they're forced to [[LetsSplitUpGang separate]], they still remain close and have a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming at the end of the movie when they [[BackFromTheDead all meet up again]].

* Stretch, Spoon and Cookie are true companions in ''[[Film/Gridlockd Gridlock'd]]''. The group is a jazz trio who live together. Cookie has sex with both men, and the only reason they don't have threesomes is that Stretch says he can't get it up "in a crowd." Although both Spoon and Cookie are black, Stretch has NWordPrivileges with them. The group is so close that they all use the same bathroom at the same time.

* The 2011 film ''Sunny'' revolves around a woman reuniting her high school friends when one of them is dying of cancer. A good majority of the film takes place in flashbacks of them in TheEighties.

--> '''[[ChildhoodFriendRomance Sif:]]''' He would do the same for us.

* The cast of ''{{Sneakers}}'' appears, at the outset, to be employees at a small securities firm, but when it comes time to circle the wagons, they work together like only true companions could.

* ''BackToTheFuture'': [[RidiculouslyAverageGuy Marty]] [[OnlySaneMan McFly]] and [[BunnyEarsLawyer Doc]] [[ReluctantMadScientist Brown]] have a [[OddFriendship very strange]] but very strong bond. They are separated by interests and [[IntergenerationalFriendship age]], but they would sacrifice themselves for each other without a second thought.

* ''BackToTheFuture'': [[RidiculouslyAverageGuy Marty]] [[OnlySaneMan McFly]] and [[BunnyEarsLawyer Doc]] [[ReluctantMadScientist Brown]] have a very strange but very strong bond. They are separated by interests and [[IntergenerationalFriendship age]], but they would sacrifice themselves for each other without a second thought.

* ''{{Thor}}'': Thor, Sif, and the Warriors Three are a pretty tight-knit group after adventuring and fighting together for thousands of years. Later on in the movie, Sif, Fandral, Hogun, and Volstagg risk everything to retrieve Thor from exile and are ecstatic when they're eventually reunited with him.

* In ''SisterhoodOfTheTravelingPants Carmen narrates saying, "Together, it was as if we formed one single, complete person."

** Then, in a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming, the rival shares her Trophy with Bethany at the end.

* ''Film/ThirteenDays'': Kenny O'Donnell and Jack and Bobby Kennedy. They've known each other since college and Kenny gets very irate when he thinks an ObstructiveBureaucrat is trying to play them off each other.

* The main trio in the HarryPotter movies. The books have a lot more of them.

* In ''TheAvengers'' (2012 version), at first the superheroes have significant differences, but Nick Fury (leader of SHIELD) deliberately tried to invoke this to bring them together in a time of need. It was a huge risk for him and his career. By the end [[spoiler:he succeeds]].

* The main trio in the HarryPotter movies. The books have a lot more of them.

* ''{{RENT}}'' has this when the seven friends band together in the wake of Benny's FaceHeelTurn, as well as the fact that half of them are HIV-positive. Even Joanne, an Ivy League lawyer who was only there because she was dating Maureen, gradually joined the gang and even stuck around after the couple's breakup [[spoiler:which was fortunate, since Angel's death brought them back together.]]

* Nowhere in any of the ''StarTrek'' movies is this shown more than in ''StarTrekIII'': after [[TheSpock Spock]] sacrifices himself to save the ''Enterprise'' in the previous movie, the entire cast hijack the ''Enterprise'', sacrificing their careers, possibly even their lives, along with the ship and [[HeroicBastard Kirk's son]] in order to kill some Klingons and go after a one-in-a-million shot at bringing the [[color:green:green]]-blooded bastard {{back from the dead}}. This is driven home even further when, in the next movie, [[TheSpock Spock]] chooses to stand with his "comrades" at their trial, despite not being charged of any crime himself.

* Almost everyone except her main rival seems to be one of Bethany Hamilton's TrueCompanions in SoulSurfer.