[ SECRET POST #2216 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2216 ⌋

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Comments

[oftheark]

Terms of Endearment
Steel Magnolias
In Her Shoes
The Joy Luck Club
Mermaids
Anywhere But Here
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Stepmom
Mirrormask
Mama Mia
Heartbreakers

On a lesser scale but still important plot threads:
Practical Magic
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
The Piano
The Family Stone
Sweet Home Alabama
The Help
Ever After
Drop Dead Gorgeous

You want horror?
Carrie
Mommie Dearest
Dolores Claiborne
Heavenly Creatures
The freaking Exorcist

Just off the top of my head, to go along with Tenth Kingdom, White Oleander and Thirteen someone else mentioned. So yeah; lots.

[iggy]

Most of those don't focus on the mother/daughter dynamic to the level that Brave does? I'll give you a couple, but yeah. I don't really walk away from Mirrormask, Joy Luck Club, Divine Secrets, etc. going "I watched a mother/daughter flick." Brave is also novel in doing it without AT ALL bringing in a romantic plot thread for the younger protagonist, which isn't the case in many of those films.

Like the movie or or not, Brave is still pretty novel and it is an important film. Even if all of those listed films were as focused on that plot as Brave, that's still maybe a dozen out of hundreds and hundreds of chick flicks and thousands more films period. And how many of those films focus on a teenage daughter and her mother? The list grows even smaller. How many of those films were seen by a lot of people and continue to be watched? Even smaller. Brave is pretty darn unique in the grand scheme of things.

Try to make a father/son list, it will probably be ten times longer, no exaggeration.

[oftheark]

No offense, but if you didn't come away from The Joy Luck Club which is ONLY about eight women and their relationships with their mothers, seriously, there is no other plot here thinking you'd watched a movie about mothers and daughters then you're kind of doing this whole movie watching thing very wrong. Same goes for Divine Secrets.

Honestly, I haven't even seen Brave and I'm not actually knocking it. All I said was that there were a lot of other movies that focussed on mother-daughter relationships and that Brave really isn't breaking any new ground with that as its focus. Every movie I mentioned does have significant mother-daughter threads and the main list the mother-daughter relationship is the driving force of the whole movie (save In Her Shoes, sorry; it's grandmother-granddaughter), despite you thinking they're not on par with Brave, or it's specific plot, lack of romance and any other qualifiers you want to toss out. I made my point, ad nauseum.