# Need Movie recommendations for 15 yo girl **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 18, 2005, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-movie-recommendations-for-15-yo-girl/331693 "2005-11-18T19:59:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-movie-recommendations-for-15-yo-girl/331693/21 "2005-11-23T19:31:03Z")
Thank you, everybody, for the suggestions. We have a lot of these films already (I have a compulsively large movie collection) but there were a lot we didn’t have. I’ll talk it over with Mrs. R. However, Mrs. R has suggested an iPod, which might use up all our money 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-movie-recommendations-for-15-yo-girl/331693/22 "2005-11-23T20:05:21Z")
> [@Rocketeer](#): > > Thank you, everybody, for the suggestions. We have a lot of these films already (I have a compulsively large movie collection) but there were a lot we didn’t have. I’ll talk it over with Mrs. R. > > However, Mrs. R has suggested an iPod, which might use up all our money 🙂 You can buy an iPod look-alike for quite a bit less. And you can get one with less memory that will still service the needs of a 15-year old. My husband got me a Lyra (by RCA) and I’m pretty happy with it. It holds 8 hours of music and I think he only paid a little over $100 for it. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-movie-recommendations-for-15-yo-girl/331693/23 "2005-11-23T20:12:34Z")
[Zero Effect](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120906/). It’s a great modern-day detective movie. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-movie-recommendations-for-15-yo-girl/331693/24 "2005-11-23T20:13:10Z")
How about “Gregory’s Girl”? A Scottish teen flick from the 80’s. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-movie-recommendations-for-15-yo-girl/331693/25 "2005-11-24T02:04:41Z")
**Ghost World** is a great movie for teenage girls (if not a little depressing). There’s no pygmalion transformation, big prom or unattainable hot boy. ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-movie-recommendations-for-15-yo-girl/331693/26 "2005-11-24T02:37:38Z")
How about 13 Going on 30? ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-movie-recommendations-for-15-yo-girl/331693/27 "2005-11-24T06:46:01Z")
The NoteBook, saddest movie ever, my students recomended this to me, the perfect chick flick in many ways and it has Rockford, er James Garner in it. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-movie-recommendations-for-15-yo-girl/331693/28 "2005-11-24T07:46:54Z")
**Bend It Like Beckham** is a must-see film, both for girls her age and everyone else as well. ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-movie-recommendations-for-15-yo-girl/331693/29 "2005-11-24T10:29:27Z")
The films I enjoyed when I was 15ish (I’m 23 now, so it wasn’t a long time). Anything by Bruce Lee (for the muscles, not the violence, obviously), _Fists of Fury \* or Enter the Dragon by preference. \* Breakfast at Tiffany’s North by Northwest Vertigo Psycho The Birds Dazed and Confused Empire Records Reality Bites Clueless Legends of the Fall Dirty Dancing Leon My Own Private Idaho_ (for Depp and Phoenix, obviously) These were all movies that my friends and I would watch over and over again, to the point where we knew all the lines and could dissect everything in great detail, all while lusting after the main character and eating vats of popcorn. Films I would have watched if they had been out: _Garden State Coming Soon Mean Girls_ Films my 17 year-old sister has enjoyed recently: _Y Tu Mama Tambien Le Choriste The Pianist The Notebook The 40-year old Virgin Zoolander Bad Santa_ Obviously all of these, with the possible exception of \*Le Choriste, Mean Girls \* and _The Notebook_, will have tipped the sex, language and violence scales. You know your daughter best, but if you think she could handle films with a more adult theme, then go for it. I should say that we watched those movies sometimes with parental permission and sometimes not, but that none of us are worse people for it. When we were 16, my school would show \*JFK \* and _Schindler’s List_ for history class and _All About My Mother_ in Spanish class, so you can see that our definition of age-appropriate cinema might be very different. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-movie-recommendations-for-15-yo-girl/331693.md?page=1)