# Are there any chick flicks that feature a poor man as the love interest? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 21, 2015, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-chick-flicks-that-feature-a-poor-man-as-the-love-interest/723052 "2015-06-21T03:00:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2015, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-chick-flicks-that-feature-a-poor-man-as-the-love-interest/723052/61 "2015-06-22T10:36:11Z")
_Bridesmaids_, now that I think of it. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2015, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-chick-flicks-that-feature-a-poor-man-as-the-love-interest/723052/62 "2015-06-22T12:15:12Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > Interesting. Contrast erotic romances, which are ALL about average women having sex with billionaires. Preferably werewolf billionaires. Preferably preferably werewolf biker billionaires. > > No, I am not making this up. And here I was thinking they were about the Lady of the house having an affair with the stable boy… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2015, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-chick-flicks-that-feature-a-poor-man-as-the-love-interest/723052/63 "2015-06-22T12:26:35Z")
I’m pretty sure _Indecent Proposal_ fits. ---
**Author:** ![F.Pu-du-he-pa-as](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c89c15/32.png) [@F.Pu-du-he-pa-as](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.Pu-du-he-pa-as)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2015, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-chick-flicks-that-feature-a-poor-man-as-the-love-interest/723052/64 "2015-06-23T03:19:15Z")
This seems to have been a popular trope in the 1930’s, where the woman comes from money but the man doesn’t. I forget the names of all of them, but _The Thin Man_ and _My Man Godfrey_ come to mind. ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2015, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-chick-flicks-that-feature-a-poor-man-as-the-love-interest/723052/65 "2015-06-23T04:17:53Z")
Picnic ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2015, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-chick-flicks-that-feature-a-poor-man-as-the-love-interest/723052/66 "2015-06-23T04:24:12Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > Poor Jo ended up with her cultured but dirt-poor older German (though they later opened up a school for boys, somehow). ISTR it had involved Aunt March’s help. ---
**Author:** ![MsKaren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@MsKaren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsKaren)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2015, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-chick-flicks-that-feature-a-poor-man-as-the-love-interest/723052/67 "2015-06-23T06:18:02Z")
Robin Hood? Breathless? The Graduate? ---
**Author:** ![Why\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b782af/32.png) [@Why\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_Child)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2015, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-chick-flicks-that-feature-a-poor-man-as-the-love-interest/723052/68 "2015-06-23T10:09:02Z")
Fiddler on the Roof? Not sure if it counts as a chick flick, but I remember as a young girl, how happy I was that Tzeitel got to marry Motel instead of being forced to marry Lazar Wolf. The part when Motel is sings “Miracle of Miracles” is pretty romantic. The first two girls that are old enough to marry get a poor tailor, and a poor student. Poor Tevye. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2015, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-chick-flicks-that-feature-a-poor-man-as-the-love-interest/723052/69 "2015-06-23T10:46:56Z")
Reality Bites ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2015, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-chick-flicks-that-feature-a-poor-man-as-the-love-interest/723052/70 "2015-06-23T19:38:54Z")
Thought for sure someone would have mentioned this one: **Sweet Home Alabama**. She gets married to a poor guy, then runs off to New York and reinvents herself as a big-city socialite. She gets engaged to a high-society type, but she can’t marry him until her first husband agrees to a divorce. So she goes back to Hooterville and, of course, ends up falling for the first husband all over again. At the end her New York fiancee turns out to be a total doormat, incidentally, and doesn’t put up a fight at all over losing his bride. ---
**Author:** ![Unpronounceable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9de0a6/32.png) [@Unpronounceable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unpronounceable)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2015, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-chick-flicks-that-feature-a-poor-man-as-the-love-interest/723052/71 "2015-06-23T19:41:49Z")
Didn’t **Pretty in Pink** rather famously get a rewrite so that the poor guy won? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2015, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-chick-flicks-that-feature-a-poor-man-as-the-love-interest/723052/72 "2015-06-23T20:13:32Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > I’m pretty sure _Indecent Proposal_ fits. I always thought this was an example of poor writing: Rich guy: What if I gave you 1 million dollars to sleep with your wife? MY IMPROVED ANSWER: Great! What’s in it for _her_? ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2015, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-chick-flicks-that-feature-a-poor-man-as-the-love-interest/723052/73 "2015-06-23T20:22:25Z")
**While You Were Sleeping**. It starts with Sandra Bullock lusting over Peter Gallagher’s rich, handsome, successful bastard character, but she ends up with his brother, played by Bill Pullman, who’s blue collar. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2015, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-chick-flicks-that-feature-a-poor-man-as-the-love-interest/723052/74 "2015-06-23T20:54:35Z")
> [@Unpronounceable](#): > > Didn’t **Pretty in Pink** rather famously get a rewrite so that the poor guy won? Other way around. In the first draft, she was supposed to choose the guy who had never let her down. They changed it to Duckie martyring himself because reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Unpronounceable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9de0a6/32.png) [@Unpronounceable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unpronounceable)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2015, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-chick-flicks-that-feature-a-poor-man-as-the-love-interest/723052/75 "2015-06-23T21:05:14Z")
Oh, that’s right, they were officially worried about “class issues.” My bad. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2015, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-chick-flicks-that-feature-a-poor-man-as-the-love-interest/723052/76 "2015-06-23T23:56:41Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > I’m pretty sure _Indecent Proposal_ fits. > > I always thought this was an example of poor writing: > > Rich guy: What if I gave you 1 million dollars to sleep with your wife? > > MY IMPROVED ANSWER: Great! What’s in it for _her_? “Would you sleep with Robert Redford for a million dollars?” “Sure, but I don’t have a million dollars.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-chick-flicks-that-feature-a-poor-man-as-the-love-interest/723052.md?page=3)