Weekend Watch — 12/9/22
Celebrating our upcoming live storytelling event with a list of our fave movies and shows featuring daughters...
Happy Friday, TueNighters! To celebrate our upcoming #1 Daughter live event, we’ve pulled together a list of movies and shows that feature daughters.
Here are a few of our faves:
Mermaids (1990) — an unconventional single mother (Cher) relocates with her two daughters (Winona Ryder and Christina Ricci) to a small Massachusetts town in 1963, where a number of events and relationships both challenge and strengthen their familial bonds.
Soul Food (1997 ) — as seen through the eyes of Ahmad (Brandon Hammond), the film primarily focuses on the rivalries and affections that rise and fall among Ahmad's mother (Vivica A. Fox) and her two sisters (Vanessa L. Williams, Nia Long). Through them, and through the weekly Sunday dinners cooked with love by their mother, Big Mama (Irma P. Hall), we witness marital bliss and distress, infidelity, success, failure... in short, the spices of life both bitter and sweet.
Gilmore Girls (2000-2007) — set in a storybook Connecticut town of Stars Hallow, this multigenerational dramedy about family and friendship centers around thirtysomething single mother Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham) and her teen daughter, Rory (Alexis Bledel).
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002) — After years of mother-daughter tension, Siddalee (Sandra Bullock) receives a scrapbook detailing the wild adventures of the "Ya-Yas", her mother's (Ellen Burstyn) girlhood friends.
Freaky Friday (2003) — An overworked single mother (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her teenage daughter (Lindsay Lohan) do not get along. When they switch bodies, each is forced to adapt to the other's life for one freaky Friday.
Mama Mia (2008) — Donna (Meryl Streep), an independent hotelier in the Greek islands, is preparing for her daughter's wedding. Meanwhile, her daughter Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) secretly invites three men from her mother's past in hope of meeting her real father. Their story is told using hit songs by the popular 1970s group ABBA.
The Lost Daughter (2021) — A college professor (Olivia Colman) confronts her unsettling past after meeting a woman (Dakota Johnson) and her young daughter while on vacation in Italy. Her obsession with the woman and her daughter prompts memories of her early motherhood.
Don’t forget to join our house party on Tuesday, December 13th!
It's gotta be Pretty in Pink. Molly Ringwald's Andie was the first person I knew whose mother was gone, who was alone with just a dad. How strange that seemed to me—to have just a male parent—despite the fact that my dad and I were quite close. I was riveted by those scenes where Andi and her dad were sad + together in their aloneness. And of course, the relationship Andie had with Iona (Annie Potts) ... I almost longed to be abandoned by my own mother so I could forge a new connection with someone like her.
The Joy Luck Club- 'cause representation. I saw not only 1 of me, but 4 of me on screen. (I was a stand in on the film 🎬, and everyone could feel it would be groundbreaking.) Terms of Endearment- the first movie I watched where I saw a complicated, messy, and prickly mom/daughter relationship. Lady Bird- more mom/daughter turbulence, and it's hilarious. Crazy Rich Asians- mahjong scene w/daughter, mom, and future mother-in-law...symbolic and empowering.