![]() ![]() The Heat breaks into, for the first time, the male-driven buddy cop genre, and does so without obsessing over or even focusing on the gender of its leads. But like Romy & Michelle and Baby Mama, those movies, by and large, are easy to describe as, well, girlie. Then there’s the string of female-ensemble successes, as few and far between as they’ve been over the decades: Bridesmaids, Pitch Perfect, and The Help, recently and then Sex and the City, 9 to 5, and Steel Magnolias, which continue to resonate in pop culture. ![]() Even as far as buddy comedies go, films like Romy & Michelle’s High School Reunion (starring Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino) and Baby Mama (Tina Fey and Amy Poehler) were decidedly feminine as far as subject matter goes. ![]() Thelma and Louise found its title characters, played by Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon, on the other side of the law. Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey starred in Beaches, but that wasn’t exactly a laugh riot. Certainly, “buddy movies” with two females in the lead are hardly new. ![]()
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