Isn’t it about time you watched a movie about strong and amazing WOMEN?

We’re pretty excited to offer you the next book in the Movies About… series – Movies About Women.

It’s a celebration of women in film from the 1930′s up to today and we’ve focused on films that are great and have mostly been forgotten or you had never heard of before now. You won’t find the really famous or well publicized movies in here because – well – they don’t need more recognition right now. They’ll be in volumes 2 or 3 of Movies About Women.  Check out some of the sample reviews in the posts below and let us know what you think of these films. Send us your recommendations for inclusion in our next books – see the contact page for details. And now, we’re back watching more movies to provide you with the review to save you time and not waste your money on films designed to appeal to the male of the species.

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Estranged From Family, J-Lo Finds Solace In A Mystical Guy

In a nice reversal of traditional film roles, Jennifer Lopez plays the tough and edgy loner cop with an attitude in Angel Eyes (2001), while James Caviezel plays the kind, gently and spiritual soul who has something in his background that he’s trying to keep secret. When her personality gets Lopez into more trouble than her physical abilities can handle, Caviezel pops up to save her life. Naturally, a relationship develops, but this time around both characters are wary. It’s certainly different, and there’s enough of an eerie edge to it that people who like the possibility of something supernatural happening will be happy. When it touches down on more corporeal events, this movie has an extremely interesting subplot about Lopez’s family. It seems she arrested her father for beating her mother after a lifetime of abuse, and that has made her a pariah in her family with its “traditional” beliefs, as well as her old friends and neighbors. That’s a subject that could probably make for an interesting movie even now.

Upset By Being Adopted, Girl Decides Star Makes A Better Mom

Back in the 1970s an 11-year-old discovers through a school project on blood types that her mother could not be her birth mother, and thus begins The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom (2011). Finding out she’s adopted upsets Julia Stone’s character quite a bit, and it pushes aside her former obsession to get her first period so she can be like her friends. An excitable and imaginative girl in a state like that is likely to dream up a lot of ideas, but maybe not as original as deciding that the pop star Dolly Parton is her real mother. Since the singer-actress is appearing at a concert soon in Minneapolis, Stone decides to travel south from her home in Canada and stage a reunion. But more important than the comic implications of this are the scenes in which Stone and her adopted parents (Gil Bellows and Macha Grenon) discuss the emotional issues related to adoption. First-time writer/director Tara Johns has created a small but touching film, and fans of the country star will want to know that Parton allowed some of her songs to be recorded by other artists specifically for the movie.

Girl Abused So Badly Her Personality Broke Into Several Parts

A lot of people thought a remake of the Sally Field-Joanne Woodward version of Sybil (1976) was unnecessary because the original is so good, but Sybil (2007) with Jessica Lange and Tammy Blanchard managed to crank things up a notch because it could be more direct in telling the story. Sadly, both movies are based on the true story of a child whose strict parents abused her so badly her psyche split into at least 13 pieces so her mind could deal with the horror of what happened to her. Sadly again, there’s really no need to tell you what might have happened to her, but it’s worth watching Field and Blanchard unveil her memories to the kindly doctor. Watch this if you’re felling sorry for yourself.

Daughter’s New Life Sounds Good, So Mom Joins Her

To escape the confinement of family life back east, a young woman moves to Vancouver to be closer to a more relaxed atmosphere in Better Than Chocolate (1999). When she meets a hot young street artist, they decide to move into a sub-let flat together. She calls her sweater sets and pearls mother to tell her some of the news, and her mother — who is suddenly single — announces she’s coming out west with her teenage son for a visit. This is an OK structure for a sitcom, but this film is something wholly different as the daughter is gay. Instead of turning into some melodrama with lots of heartfelt speeches and bolts of understanding and stuff like that, director Anne Wheeler steps it up a notch to big-hearted comedy with a nice streak of fantasy and a message to just accept people for what they are and let them deal with the perils of love and sex on their own terms.

Women’s Love Lives Determined For Life By Newport Wedding

Two women’s lives are defined for almost 50 years by the events following a 1950s society wedding in Newport, Rhode Island, and Evening (2007) shows it’s more complicated than you can probably imagine. In the first place, Claire Danes and Mamie Gummer both wanted to marry the same man, who wasn’t the groom, and their attraction to him resulted in one death and an immense sense of longing for many people. We see this in the dreams and hallucinations of Vanessa Redgrave as the old version of Danes when she lies on her deathbed, with her two daughters (Toni Collette and Natasha Richardson) nearby. They are surprised to hear about this man, and distressed that he and their mother were involved in a death. It comes to a peaceful ending when Meryl Streep (playing the old version of her daughter Gummer) arrives to visit Redgrave. Other stellar actors include Glenn Close, Eileen Atkins, Hugh Dancy, Patrick Wilson and Barry Bostwick.