Sex and the City 2 is one of the biggest chick flick events of the year that will have women, who are fans of the hit television show, flocking to the cinema in droves to get a piece of the love, frocks and friendship.
Two years after the success of Sex In The City Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda are back for another stint on the silver screen.
In recent years the chick flick has become a successful movie genre in it's own right launching the careers of Julia Roberts and Renee Zellweger as well as making sex symbols of Patrick Swayze and Richard Gere.
FemaleFirst, who admittedly also love a good girly night in, have looked back over the years to find the most successful and most popular chick flicks.
1. Dirty Dancing
No chick flick chart would be complete without the inclusion of Dirty Dancing, possibly the most popular chick flick of all time, as thousands of women have fallen in love with Johnny, danced around their living rooms and sung into a hairbrush over and over again.
Headstrong 17-year-old Baby Houseman hardly expects her family's usual summer vacation in the Catskills to be momentous.
But then Baby spies Johnny Castle, the resort's dance instructor from the wrong side of the tracks. Johnny's facing a crisis: his dance partner and friend, Penny, is pregnant and has reluctantly decided to get an abortion.
This leaves Johnny a solo act, until Baby agrees to take Penny's place. She has to learn how to dance first, however, and as Johnny teaches her the choreography's sexy, seductive moves, the two fall in love.
But Baby's father believes that Johnny is the creep who got Penny pregnant, and he furiously orders Baby to end the relationship.
Baby knows that Johnny's innocent -- and with her feisty idealism and his dance talent, the two will prove to Baby's father that their love is worth fighting for.
The film is regularly credited as being one of the most watched movies of all time as Dirty Dancing swept to a surprise success in 1987 grossing $300 million at the global box office.
It is also the first film that sold over a million copies of the then home video. The movie has spawned two soundtracks as well as a successful theatre show.
2.Thelma and Louise
Directed by Ridley Scott Thelma and Louise it the 1991 road movie that follows two women as they take a break from their troubled lives.
Fed up with her boyfriend (Michael Madsen), live-wire Arkansas waitress Louise Sawyer (Susan Sarandon) persuades her friend Thelma Dickinson (Geena Davis), a naive housewife burdened with a negligent, sexist husband (Christopher McDonald), to hit the road with her for a weekend of freedom.
One of their first stops is a bar where the women relax, dance, and flirt with some of the locals. But the situation turns ugly when one man (Timothy Carhart) follows Thelma to the parking lot and attempts to rape her, causing Louise to shoot and accidentally kill him.
Convinced that the police will never believe their version of the incident, the women take off, now fugitives from the law.
Emboldened by recent events, Thelma picks up young cowboy J.D. (Brad Pitt) in Oklahoma and enjoys a one-night stand that leads to even more trouble.
Thelma and Louise is an intelligent picture that promoted feminism and the strength of women as these two characters escape their downtrodden lives and go on a journey of self discovery.
The film was a critical and commercial hit and is now considered one of cinema's classic movies. It went on to gross over $45 million in America alone and was on of the highest grossing movies of 1991.
Thelma ad Louise was nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Director, and Best Actress for both Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis. Callie Khouri won for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.
3. Pretty Woman
Pretty Woman launched the career of young actress Julia Roberts when the film was released in 1990.
While driving back to his Beverly Hills hotel, millionaire corporate raider Edward Lewis takes a wrong turn and ends up on Hollywood Boulevard, where he meets prostitute Vivian Ward.
She steers him back to his hotel, charming him along the way, and he decides to hire her for the rest of the evening.
In the morning, Edward realizes that he could use an escort for the week, so he hands Vivian $3000 to stay -- and sends her on a fantasy shopping spree.
What begins as a purely business transaction develops into something more, but can a poor prostitute and a rich businessman really live happily ever after?
While not really grounded in reality and suggesting that richer is better Pretty Woman is one of the most financial successful romantic comedies/chick flicks.
It grossed $463 million at the global box office and was one of the high grossing movies of 1990.
Julia Roberts won a Golden Globe for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her performance.
4. When Harry Met Sally
'Men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way.'
The film, written by Nora Ephron, follows our title characters from a shared car ride from the University of Chicago to New York City and the twelve years that follow that puts Harry's theory to the test.
Sally is aghast and disagrees, proclaiming the idea a distinct possibility. The two part ways rather acrimoniously in New York but before long meet again and eventually decide to indeed be friends.
As life’s mysterious coincidences pull Harry and Sally closer together, they share mystical, tender moments, confess secrets to each other, console each other, attend major holidays together, and do all the other things couples traditionally do.
Until they end up having sex that night, resulting in an awkward morning the next day as Harry quickly leaves Sally's place.
This creates a tension in their relationship, as the two have a heated argument one day that leads to them not talking for a long time
The question then reemerges: Can Harry and Sally remain mere friends, or will they, must they or can they fall in love?
This film is an excellent look into conversations between the sexes as it gives a funny and poignant view of men and women and the friendship, love and sex that comes with it.
Despite being predictable When Harry Met Sally is a lightweight look at the bumpy ride of two people who discover that they are in love.
Upon release the film was met well critically and went on to gross $92 million, which was well above it's $16 million budget.
Nora Ephron received an Oscar nomination for her screenplay as well as winning a BAFTA in the same category and receiving a nomination for Best Film.
And both the Ryan and Crystal were nominated for Best Actor and Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy at the Golden Globes.
Almost twenty years after it's release When Harry Met Sally still stands up and is a favourite with those who love the genre of the chick flick and the romantic comedy - and who could forget Ryan's classic faking-it scene in Katz's Deli?
5. Ghost
Patrick Swayze makes a second appearance in this look at the best Chick Flicks with the tear-jerker Ghost.
After renovating their expensive loft in the TriBeCa section of Manhattan, Molly (Demi Moore) and Sam (Patrick Swayze), a young successful yuppie couple, are walking home one evening when Sam is tragically gunned down by a street mugger.
Molly goes into a deep depression, but, unknown to her, Sam has come back as a ghost in order to protect her from danger--although he isn't yet aware who or what means her harm, and he has a lot of learning to do in order to make himself known to her.
He teams up with an unwilling psychic, Oda Mae Brown (Whoopi Goldberg), and together they try to convince a very skeptical Molly that Sam was actually murdered and has returned spectrally to complete some unfinished business.
The pottery wheel scene became one of cinema's most iconic, and parodied, love scenes and the film went on to be a global blockbuster.
Blending romance and comedy Ghost won and Oscar for best Supporting Actress for Whoopi Goldberg and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. It was nominated for three more including Best Picture.
Other chick flick movies that are well worth watching include Sleepless In Seattle, Ten Things I Hate About You, How To Lose A Guy In Ten Days and Chocolat.
Sex and the City 2 is released 28th May
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw
Sex and the City 2 is one of the biggest chick flick events of the year that will have women, who are fans of the hit television show, flocking to the cinema in droves to get a piece of the love, frocks and friendship.
Two years after the success of Sex In The City Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda are back for another stint on the silver screen.
In recent years the chick flick has become a successful movie genre in it's own right launching the careers of Julia Roberts and Renee Zellweger as well as making sex symbols of Patrick Swayze and Richard Gere.
FemaleFirst, who admittedly also love a good girly night in, have looked back over the years to find the most successful and most popular chick flicks.
1. Dirty Dancing
No chick flick chart would be complete without the inclusion of Dirty Dancing, possibly the most popular chick flick of all time, as thousands of women have fallen in love with Johnny, danced around their living rooms and sung into a hairbrush over and over again.
Headstrong 17-year-old Baby Houseman hardly expects her family's usual summer vacation in the Catskills to be momentous.
But then Baby spies Johnny Castle, the resort's dance instructor from the wrong side of the tracks. Johnny's facing a crisis: his dance partner and friend, Penny, is pregnant and has reluctantly decided to get an abortion.
This leaves Johnny a solo act, until Baby agrees to take Penny's place. She has to learn how to dance first, however, and as Johnny teaches her the choreography's sexy, seductive moves, the two fall in love.
But Baby's father believes that Johnny is the creep who got Penny pregnant, and he furiously orders Baby to end the relationship.
Baby knows that Johnny's innocent -- and with her feisty idealism and his dance talent, the two will prove to Baby's father that their love is worth fighting for.
The film is regularly credited as being one of the most watched movies of all time as Dirty Dancing swept to a surprise success in 1987 grossing $300 million at the global box office.
It is also the first film that sold over a million copies of the then home video. The movie has spawned two soundtracks as well as a successful theatre show.
2.Thelma and Louise
Directed by Ridley Scott Thelma and Louise it the 1991 road movie that follows two women as they take a break from their troubled lives.
Fed up with her boyfriend (Michael Madsen), live-wire Arkansas waitress Louise Sawyer (Susan Sarandon) persuades her friend Thelma Dickinson (Geena Davis), a naive housewife burdened with a negligent, sexist husband (Christopher McDonald), to hit the road with her for a weekend of freedom.
One of their first stops is a bar where the women relax, dance, and flirt with some of the locals. But the situation turns ugly when one man (Timothy Carhart) follows Thelma to the parking lot and attempts to rape her, causing Louise to shoot and accidentally kill him.
Convinced that the police will never believe their version of the incident, the women take off, now fugitives from the law.
Emboldened by recent events, Thelma picks up young cowboy J.D. (Brad Pitt) in Oklahoma and enjoys a one-night stand that leads to even more trouble.
Thelma and Louise is an intelligent picture that promoted feminism and the strength of women as these two characters escape their downtrodden lives and go on a journey of self discovery.
The film was a critical and commercial hit and is now considered one of cinema's classic movies. It went on to gross over $45 million in America alone and was on of the highest grossing movies of 1991.
Thelma ad Louise was nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Director, and Best Actress for both Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis. Callie Khouri won for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.
3. Pretty Woman
Pretty Woman launched the career of young actress Julia Roberts when the film was released in 1990.
While driving back to his Beverly Hills hotel, millionaire corporate raider Edward Lewis takes a wrong turn and ends up on Hollywood Boulevard, where he meets prostitute Vivian Ward.
She steers him back to his hotel, charming him along the way, and he decides to hire her for the rest of the evening.
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