Chick flicks that seem kinda forgotten

I'm weirdly partial to Boys on the Side.

Leaving Normal

To add to OP's post....as they should be!

Meg Ryan's rom coms.

In Her Shoes with Miss Shirley MacLaine

[italic]My Marcia's vagina is so perfect, it's in a museum![/italic]

I always feel bad when I see or hear about Ashley Judd. She coulda been a contenda.

How To Make An American Quilt

French Kiss. I laughed my butt off. It’s charming.

This piece of crap worked better as the gay romance "Straight Jacket."

Now and Then

I love 'Where the Heart Is'!

'Tortilla Soup' was another sweet little early 2000s rom com that flew under the radar.

While we're going vaguely ethnic...

R5 I really liked that one. That blind old guy in the end made me blubber like a bitch. Last good thing Shirley Maclaine ever did.

Loved French Kiss. Kevin Kline was so dreamy.

R11 I read up on Elizabeth Peña's whereabouts....she was everywhere in the 80s and 90s...sad to read she died of cirhossis and was a chronic alcoholic. Sad.

Riding in Cras with Boys (2001) starring Drew Barrymore

I don’t get why but I loved chick flicks as a kid. I used to watch them with my mom and even alone sometimes.

Do they even make chick flicks anymore?

Le Divorce (2003), which is odd, because it is a star studded Merchant Ivory rom-com.

Does Mermaids count?

I ran into, "The Sweetest Thing," one years after it came out and enjoyed it.

Sad to think that 2 out of 3 leads, Christina Applegate and Selma Blair have multiple sclerosis, now.

Serendipity (2001)

That's a genre that I barely see anymore, although Hollywood only seems to come out with 3 movies a month now.

Oh, God, I remember thinking DOWN WITH LOVE looked so fun, and then it was just excruciating to sit through.

Another overdone production that fell flat

The genre died. It's all gender neutral stuff and chick flicks is offensive. This thread is banned.

Not a single chick flick in the whole of 2025.

Anyone for Anywhere but Here, starring Natalie Portman and DL fave Susan Sarandon?

That one with Susan Sarandon and Goldie Hawn

Or that other one with Sandra Bullock and Gena Rowlands

R11, Tortilla Soup, with the always hot hot hot Hector Elizondo

R23 me too. I rented it with so much optimism....I liked the 1st half but then the second half was so ridiculous and over the place

Aw, shit. Villainous! Not villainess. Not my Hector!!!

It's My Turn.

Hope Floats r29

Someone Like You with Ashley Judd (again) and Hugh Jackman.

LA Story

Twilight.

You Light Up my Life. The film, not the song.

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

TR Baskin.

I Dreamed of Africa

Geena Davis is an absolute snack in Angie, one of my favorite sleeper chick flicks.

Tortilla Soup is free on Prime Video. Just found it and watched it tonight and it still holds up. The gorgeous cooking sequences are total food porn and Hector Elizondo is sexy as fuck, as is the youngest daughter's (so obviously gay) Brazilian boyfriend, Andre.

“Mona Lisa Smile” may very well one of the very last romcoms ever made.

It’s also great. I watch it whenever I’m feeling overwhelmed.

Sorry, meant to type “chick flicks” not “rom coms.”

What’s the difference between a Chick Flick and a Rom Com?

Lovely & Amazing (2001) is wildly underappreciated. It has terrific performances from Catherine Keener, Brenda Blethyn and Emily Mortimer. Plus you have a twinky Jake Gyllenhaal in it.

Roger Ebert loved the movie and called it: "It's a rebuke of the shallow Ya-Ya Sisterhood".

"All I Wanna Do" (aka "The Hairy Bird"). I absolutely love it.

I feel like Hallmark and Lifetime movies have usurped the need for feature 'chick fliks'

Mona Lisa Smile is a DL WASP fetish wet dream up there with The Philadelphia Story.

So many in the past. First Wives Club, Beaches. There was a rash of women comedies in the 2010s. Bridesmaids, the Heat. I agree that pickings have been slim the past few years.

They still make a ton of romantic comedies. Just most don’t go to theaters first. They are produced for Netflix or some other streaming. And I’m talking A list stars in them with the same budget as when they were targeted to make money in theaters first. Movie theaters are a dying dinosaur with only handful of spectacle or extremely excellent films worth seeing there for the experience.

Personal Best sort of toes the line between chick flick and clit flick.

What about me!!?

The late 00's and early 2010s were rife with mediocre, forgettable rom coms. Remember that year where we got the same exact movie twice (Friends with Benefits and no strings attached) or those shitty no matter how star studded Valentine's Day/New Years Day/He's just not that into you?

I dont miss them.

Something Borrowed

I think female led comedies like first Wives Club, Bridesmaids and Girls Trip are a different genre than chick flick, which aren’t generally lol funny.

Little Black Book.

I guess a lot of the screenplays that would have been yesterday's big budget romantic comedies became Hallmark movies instead.

R54 I watched that recently on a plane...excrutiatingly bad, another example of shitty early 2010's romcom.

Once- a lovely, lively Irish film about a busker who meets a stranger on the street and start writing music together and eventually love blooms. Stars Glenn Hansard (if movie, The Commitments. Amazing soundtrack. One-of-a kind, and totally charming.

Almost sixty replies and no mention of Jennifer Aniston’s seminal I Know, Right?

Lovely & Amazing is too good to be considered a chick flick.

R60 Bitch stole my career.

I know, I know, but... I LOVE The Wedding Date with Messing and Mulroney and Sarah Parrish (hilarious!) and Jeremy Sheffield (gorgeous!) and Holland Taylor (Holland Taylor!).

One of the best: Thelma & Louise. But it's not forgotten due to Brad Pitt. and Christopher MacDonald.

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle.

It did for married women what Fatal Attraction did for married men.

THTRC is not a chick flick.

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

I really liked Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day

R66 It’s a movie by women, for women, and appreciated by women. Just because it’s not a light comedy doesn’t mean it’s not a chicks’ movie.

The Color Purple and Dirty Dancing have the same impact. Women audiences have a markedly different reaction to these films than men do, and that’s kind of the point.

There aren't a lot of slow build diabolical dramas featuring women anymore.

R12 I worked at a movie theater my junior year in high school. So I've seen every film released 1997 about a million times. Soul Food was one of my favorites.

Granted, I was watching mostly for the men, so please don't ask me about the plot.

Sandy had the best romcoms.

Hope Floats (more a drama?), While You Were Sleeping, Miss Congeniality (the first one), The Proposal.

Even Two Weeks Notice was fun.

27 Dresses.

Living Out Loud.

The Hand that Rocks the Cradle was a date movie. It was a horror-thriller that had crossover appeal with women because of its female villain and themes of motherhood and child-rearing. It was equally popular with men because it featured a "hot" female villain and a thrilling and suspenseful plot with a fair amount of action. It was not remotely a chick flick. I saw this film in the theaters and it was packed with couples and mixed-gender groups.

Chick flicks aren't by definition limited to any genre(s), but the definition of "a film that appeals primarily/exclusively to women" means that romcoms and light comedies generally will predominate any list. Thrillers and horror films will always have built-in male appeal so it's hard to imagine one as a chick flick.

How Stella Got Her Groove Back.

Private Benjamin.

Hollywood is not making these movies anymore. It's all Pixar and action superheroes, or some political topical social commentary.

Untamed Heart

What was that chick movie about the lady surfers?

Blue something

Blue Balls?

Blue Bunny?

Blue Waffles?

Blue Crush, with lady surfers Kate Bosworth & Michelle Rodriguez

R84 Who's the third one? Did she take one in the face?

Promising Young Woman

Does anyone remember the dreadful "The Other Sister" (1999) with Diane Keaton and Juliette Lewis?

The only good thing about that film was Savage Garden's "The Animal Song".

Do you believe the freaky Fridays and freakier Friday count?

I would say the three main pillars of the chick flick genre are non-erotic romance (both rom and dram), girlfriends getting their groove back, and heartfelt mother/daughter tear-jerkers.

Speaking of getting your groove back..

^Actually, I'll add a fourth pillar, which is "down on her luck single mother/abused woman rising above".

What was the first chick flick?

R92 Love Story

Not some Douglas Sirk melodrama?

Crimes of the Heart

A couple I remember fondly that were on constant rotation on HBO, Showtime, and similar premium channels: Making Mr. Right (1987) and Modern Girls (1986). They were so very 80s, obviously, but I enjoyed watching them.

R47 I have a subscription to the Lifetime Movie Club and there are tons of these. Mainly are of the "woman in peril" variety, but there are RomComs too especially during Valentine's Day, and the Thanksgiving/Xmas season where you get happy-ever-after romantic comedies set in many different picturesque locales. Soothing, silly viewing. There's sometimes M/M themed RomComs, too which are fun to watch. When I'm laid up with a bad cold, LMC is my go-to for dozing off and on while partially paying attention to a bunch of movies, one after the other. There are also some absolute trash films to choose from, and I consider that a plus!

Love Story was awful. Awful. That handsome asshole Ryan O'Neal was the best thing about it.

Im glad we are no longer in the rom-com era.

"Love means never having to say you're sorry" is an incredibly toxic message in a romance story. Love ABSOLUTELY means saying you're sorry and owning your shit when you fuck up or mistreat your partner. "Never saying sorry" is how abusers operate.

The Notebook

Love Story was a huge hit and not forgotten. I posted Private Benjamin which I now regret as it too was a huge hit.

R90 see R77

The Notebook isn't forgotten, straight chicks love that one

R19, I have given your question much thought and I would say that MERMAIDS is indeed a coming-of-age chick flick.

I was going to write that chick-flicks were the modern-day women's pictures of the 1930s and 1940s. Then I remembered the 1920s had jazz age babies, the newly liberated woman. There was also Ellla Cinders though she had an unhappy ending.

Thelma and Louise, with a snack of Brad Pitt.

Whitney did one…Waiting to Exhale.

Big Momma’s House

The Fugitive!