Top 5 Thursday: Female Lead Comedy Movies

Women at their finest and funniest. I listed some of my favorite comedies starring a female lead. Here is my top 5.

5. Clueless
As if I could make this list without “Clueless” on it. A movie I watched over and over again when I was a teen myself. I was never like Cher, but I really loved this movie. And still!

4. Bend It Like Beckham
“Bend It Like Beckham” is a very underseen and underrated comedy. The movie that introduced us to Keira Knightley. The film follows Jess, and Indian girl who loves to play football (soccer) but her parents don’t allow her. Jess secretly joins an all girl football team and is finally happy. Then she falls in love with her coach Joe, the man her friend Jules also likes.

3. Bridesmaids
People call it the female version of “The Hangover”, when it is in fact much better. Kristen Wiig leads the groups of bridesmaids on the way to her best friend’s wedding. And off course nothing goes as plan and there is a new BFF in her way. Super funny.

2. Juno
“Juno” is one of the most likeable and sincere comedies I’ve ever seen. It’s easy to identify with Juno and how it feels to grow up and take responsibility. “Juno” is clever, funny and honest.

1. Easy A
“Easy A” is hilarious and has a fantastic female lead. I love Emma Stone and this is far out her best performance and role so far. It shows us the drastic consequences after Olive tells a lie. This lie starts living its own life.

They Almost Made the Top 5: Sister Act, Trainwreck, Pitch Perfect, Miss Congeniality, Bring It On

Top 5 Thursday: Female Double-Acts

It’s all about the girl now, because sometimes it takes two strong women to carry a movie. Here are my favourite female double-acts in movies.

5. Marianne and Eleanor in “Sense and Sensebility”
Two sisters, completely different, but they have a strong bond.

4. Jess and Jules in “Bend it Like Beckham”
Two pretty girls who are awesome at soccer! Jess and Jules both come from a different background, but they click right from the start and share one passion: soccer. Oh, and they are both in love with their coach Joe.

3. Annie and Lillian in “Bridesmaids”
They have been best friends since childhood and they are more like sisters. When Lillian is getting married, Annie realizes that she is losing her. Annie does everything to not let that happen.

2. Rose and Nora in “Sunshine Cleaning”
Two sisters, totally different, decide to start a crime scene clean-up business. But what they are actually cleaning up is their messed up lives.

1. Nina and Lily in “Black Swan”
We don’t really get them, because this is a thin line between reality and fantasy here. And also love and hate. Nina is the good girl, she wants to be perfect, and Lily is a gate crasher, an average dancers and ruins everything for Nina.

They Almost Made the Top 5: Thelma and Louise in “Thelma and Louise”