"All I Wanna Do", wonderful campy indie (canadian?) movie, also featuring lynn redgrave among others, about girls' boarding school...not centered on weight issues, but I remember one girl giving ipecac to the new fat friend, and being about girls' boarding school is probably close enough
I can't remember the name of it. But,it was sort of a comedy where Suzanne Sommers made a deal w/the devil.She could eat as much as she wants,and never gain.
Fat Girl
Real Women Have Curves
Babycakes
Shallow Hal
Disfigured
Fatso
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
WallE
Lord of the Flies
Stand By Me
Muriel's Wedding
Heavyweights
Ruthless People
Bridget Jones's Diary
Shrek
Hairspray
The Truth About Cats and Dogs
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
The Mirror Has Two Faces
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Date Movie
The Tao of Steve
First Wives Club
Ever After
Queen Sized
Circle of Friends
Phat Girlz
My Name is Kim Sam Soon
Just Friends
Thin
To be Fat Like Me
The Girl Most Likely To...
Georgy Girl
Run Fat Boy Run
Why Did I Get Married
Feed
All I Wanna Do
Mona Lisa Smile
38 movies! I've seen a good handful of them, but I look forward to checking out more! Thank you
I thought Shallow Hal had a good basic message but some parts that were supposed to be funny but weren't because they were mean-funny. Like the swimming scene.
Along the lines of this, what do you think makes a "good" fat message for a movie? I don't like movies with the messages that "fat person loses weight but that's all that changes and then everything is perfect" or ones that are "just accept yourself and continue to be fat."
I recall a trailer for a movie where a woman was a fashion designer who came out with a plus-sized line, but I can't remember the name of it and thus never saw it.
I just remembered that "Sorority Boys" has some fat themes, including one of the guys dressed up as a woman claiming he has a fat behind, but the irony is that he's super thin. I read that he had to wear a prosthetic behind for the role.
Along the lines of this, what do you think makes a "good" fat message for a movie? I don't like movies with the messages that "fat person loses weight but that's all that changes and then everything is perfect" or ones that are "just accept yourself and continue to be fat."
Well, I don't think my favourite is necessarily a good body-size message as much as it is about general self-esteem...But I loved My Big Fat Greek Wedding for its message on self-esteem:
Toula meets Ian when she waits on him at her father's restaurant. Toula is dumbstruck by him, and can't even barely speak in front of him. She decides to give herself a makeover--her appearance as well as her life--and when she next sees Ian, at the new job that she loves, things go much better! She actually speaks to him, he speaks back, and of course it is True Everlasting Love. Toula tells Ian at one point that she saw him before, at her father's restaurant, and she is afraid that he will remember her for the dowdy, shy girl that had been. He says, "Of course, that was you--the pretty girl."
To me, that's a great message to hear in a movie--the difference was not Toula's makeover, but that she had the self-esteem to talk to Ian the second time around. Ian thought she was pretty from the very beginning. :
I can't remember the name of it. But,it was sort of a comedy where Suzanne Sommers made a deal w/the devil.She could eat as much as she wants,and never gain.
I remember seeing this on TV a few years ago. It was good. I don't remember the name of it either though.
I loved Shallow Hal. I think the message was about inner beauty and how that makes a person attractive. I cried the first time I saw it when he realizes the little girl.....oh wait, that would be a spoiler!! Ok, well that scene was really touching, I thought.
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