# In praise of chick flicks **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 16, 2006, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-chick-flicks/369016 "2006-08-16T22:14:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2006, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-chick-flicks/369016/61 "2006-09-11T13:28:08Z")
**Pretty Woman** **Thelma and Louise** Do these count as chick flicks? ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2006, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-chick-flicks/369016/62 "2006-09-11T14:07:51Z")
[QUOTE=supervenusfreak] I’m gay so liking chick flicks is like a second nature to me. 😉 Actually I came in here to recommend a couple of classic woman’s movies that I love. **Stage Door** and **All About Eve**. Great casts. Fine direction. Amazing dialogue. 'nuff said! [/QUOTE] My favorite “chick flicks” are the classics made primarily for a female audience. Your choices are fine examples; I’d add _The Women_ & _The Philadelphia Story_. Lots of screwball comedies fill the bill. Four-Hanky Movies? _Now Voyager_ & _All This & Heaven Too_. Then, there’s _Love Affair_ with Charles Boyer & Irene Dunne. Remade as _An Affair To Remember_, which influenced that cutesy poo “modern” chick flick. _The Shop Around the Corner_ suffered a similar fate–with the same cutesy poo couple taking the places of James Stewart & Margaret Sullavan. Among modern chick flicks, I’ve got more tolerance for the Brit comedies than the ones starring Hollywood’s latest “sweetheart.” I’m quite fond of the Austen films–including _Clueless_. What about _Moonstruck_? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-chick-flicks/369016.md?page=3)