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Summary: is it hot in here?
Review: Oh my, the first segment is steamy. Great scene, great story. The rest is good too but hard to get by that first segment. It seems like there are very few woman on woman flicks that have a generally POSITIVE ending. Hello?? Aren't we past the girl meets girl - girl is conflicted and either - goes back to guys or kills herself. This film segment is very open ended, and not negative. Wish it was a whole feature length film.
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Summary: Sophisticated and engaging
Review: Star-studded and thought-provoking; we expect great things from Stockard Channing and Mia Farrow and Camryn Manheim, and I've long been a fan of Kate Capshaw, but who knew she could be so convincing and so....,well,..hot in this role. I blush to think of the love scenes. Amazingly sensual and beautifully acted and filmed. And the Joni Mitchell score was a perfect complement. I really enjoyed parts II and IV, too, but, Lordy, those love scenes...
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Summary: A Girl Thing
Review: The entire DVD is good. The lesbian component was sensitive, emotional and romantic. The lesbian love scenes were incredible. I would love to see a sequel to the lesbian part.
Rating: 
Summary: A Girl Thing
Review: The performances in this movie were pretty good, which saves it, but the script and direction...oh honey! This film was so obviously done by men who really wish they could get into women's heads, but just can't. The most glaring example was the relationship between the women. I'm a lesbian and during the love scenes I just couldn't figure out what they were supposed to be doing. That might be because no one involved in making the film, including the actresses, had a single clue of what women do in bed. Not that it had to be explicit, that would just be gross, but the implication of what they were doing made no sense.
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Summary: Kate Capshaw is Amazing
Review: This is a must see. I stumbled upon it in the video store a week ago and haven't been able to return it since; not until I get my copy in the mail! I've told all my friends about it already. The entire movie is very well done with a cast of wonderful actresses. But let's face it; Kate Capshaw and Elle McPherson together is the real topper. It's one of the most beautiful portrayal of women together (all those between them are great) that I have seen since real life! A true girlie-girl movie...even if you don't wish to imagine yourself as part of the scene. :)
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Summary: A Girl Thing - Better than I expected
Review: This mini series is not what you rent for a night in with the girls...or a date. With a running time of about 4 hours, it's more a crash course in women's issues than a night of entertainment. Each segment does a good job of addressing some trial that comes with womanhood, but at times it feels like the story will never hit its climax. With such a bright cast, it's surprising that the acting can get quite atrocious. The film has its purpose and fills its role in addressing the troubles faced by women. Watching it just requires patience and a lot of free time. Now, if you're thinking of renting for the lesbian content, things get a little brighter. When Elle Macpherson gets into it with another woman, how can you go wrong? The action is a little canned but there are some scenes worth watching more than once. If you're willing to spring for a rental with just an hour of lesbian content, it's worth watching. Even if it is with the sound off. Bottom Line
Cuddles: **
Kleenex: *
Hotness: ****
Laughs: ***
Quality: ***
Due to the length, it's best to borrow
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Summary: Nice coverage of issues but not a lot of fun
Review: This mini series is not what you rent for a night in with the girls...or a date. With a running time of about 4 hours, it's more a crash course in women's issues than a night of entertainment. Each segment does a good job of addressing some trial that comes with womanhood, but at times it feels like the story will never hit its climax. With such a bright cast, it's surprising that the acting can get quite atrocious. The film has its purpose and fills its role in addressing the troubles faced by women. Watching it just requires patience and a lot of free time. Now, if you're thinking of renting for the lesbian content, things get a little brighter. When Elle Macpherson gets into it with another woman, how can you go wrong? The action is a little canned but there are some scenes worth watching more than once. If you're willing to spring for a rental with just an hour of lesbian content, it's worth watching. Even if it is with the sound off. Bottom Line
Cuddles: **
Kleenex: *
Hotness: ****
Laughs: ***
Quality: ***
Due to the length, it's best to borrow
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Summary: A girl thing
Review: This movie is amazing. I would completely recommend it to anyone (woman) who wants to plop herself down either by herself of with friends and be completely spellbound by the writing and dialogue, to the acting, to the situations that most of us have been though at least once. To those who liked High Art, Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her, and Playing By Heart, this is a good choice. RENT IT, LOVE IT, BUY IT. It's got every genre imaginable, suspense, romance...and the whole thing is riddled with humor. (Also, Elle MacPherson is a goddess, so even if you don't want to watch it, watch it because she has about an hour's worth of acting--of which isn't so bad at all)
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Summary: Back Away From Alice!
Review: This movie should have won an Oscar. The acting was superb. Kate Capshaw and Elle McPherson were so convincing as lesbians. Their common interest of Jazz and love for clubs composed of all butch lesbians, but them (of course), is compelling drama unfolding before your eyes. The writing is amazing. The nonexistant plotline between them had me captivated and wanting more. Stockard Channing was aspiring as a pyschologist. She made me feel like I could go to her about any problem and she would solve it in an instant. The stoned looked in her eyes provided a security unmatched in real life. The twists and turns provided in The Three Sisters story was like a M Night Shyamalan movie. I won't say anything in fear of spoiling the ultimate surprise!
All in all I feel like this movie brought me to a state of complete bliss. With dialogue like two men saying (...) over an over again and heartwarming original characters like Alice or Claire - a nontoken black maid and homophobic turned obsessive stalker jealous needy clingy apologetic friend - I feel like I should give up writing because nothing will top a masterpiece of this caliber.
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Summary: Don't believe everything you read
Review: Unfortunately, when you read reviews for this movie the first one you read is by a man. As silly as it sounds, a movie like this couldn't possibly be understood by a man, even the guy most in touch with his feminine side. Women don't need constant action to keep their attention in a movie, nor do we need flushed out male characters to make a movie whole. One has only to read a novel by Steinbeck or Hemingway in which all women are reduced to whores and prostitutes (yet the works are still considered classics), to realize that you don't always need equal time to make a story entertaining. Women understand women, and sometimes just anecdotal stories are enough to be entertaining. Just to watch Stockard Channing stand in front of a camera for two hours would be worth it. The movie is not Citizen Kane, but it isn't trying to be. Its trying to be a slice of every day life amongst a group of very high strung individuals. Okay the Cameron Manheim thing is a little over the top, but you can't discount the whole movie for that and it does in fact give the coffee house manager some of her best comic lines so its worth the suspending of reality for the moment. Male movies have left female characters in the dust for years, why is it men get so upset the minute their characters are relegated to the background? This was a good movie with an interesting concept, but if you are going to watch it with the men in your life you better also rent Lethal Weapon (which took three sequals before they had a real female character by the way...).
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