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A Girl Thing
Quick Take: Sex, love, relationships, family... It`s enough to drive you crazy. A Girl Thing is a mini-series that revolves around a New York city street, a coffee house and a shrinks office.
Director
237 minutes
running time
2001
year released
Comedy
genre
0
rating
Torifan’s Rating... 
Torifan’s review: I finally rented A Girl Thing this weekend. Yes, I've been living in a cave and have not seen any of the works of Lee Rose outside of An Unexpected Love. Trust me, that will change. After this experience with AUL and the message board, I feel like I know Lee somewhat. No, I've never met her, and I don't actually work for her (despite constant begging on my part), but she does send me PMs (Personal Messages) daily almost, and she seems to trust me. She's obviously not a very good judge of character (LOL). Knowing what I do about Lee, as I watched this film, I saw her all over the place. This film is divided up into three sections. In the first section, we get to see Kate Capshaw and Elle MacPherson do what Kate and Mac from AUL could not do: speak more freely and show more skin! This is the story of a bisexual woman and a straight woman who meet on a double blind date and decide they are interested in each other, not their male dates. In the end, the straight woman (McPherson) decides she can't live the lifestyle and wants to be just friends with the bisexual woman (Capshaw). I saw a lot of parallels between this story and the AULstory: one woman was comfortable with herself, one was unsure; one was new to the experience, one was not; one had supportive friends, one did not. I totally agree and support the idea that we are all human beings and should be loved for who we are, not what we are. Lee seems to want to drive this point home, and God bless her for that. The second story involves three sisters, who have just lost their mother. Two of the sisters have a very rocky relationship, and in fact don't get along at all. The point of this story, for me, is that family is an unbreakable bond, and it is important to remember what family means to us.
I have to start a new paragraph for the last story... WOW!! This one is so full of Lee Rose Philosophy, I can’t believe I have not seen it before now. This one involves Stockard Channing’s psychiatrist character and some of her patients. There’s a lot involved, and Camryn Manheim is great as someone on the edge. There are a lot of excellent points made in this last section, the most important being that you should live your life as fully as you can, the best you can. Because we only get the one shot, right? Must... find... transcript... to be able to memorize the lines. The writing here is genius.
Cast:
Capshaw, Kate
Channing, Stockard
De Mornay, Rebecca
Farrow, Mia
Franz, Elizabeth
Hall, Irma P.
Hamilton, Linda
Headly, Glenne
Janney, Allison
Macpherson, Elle
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