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Spring Breakdown (2009)
funny 80s inspired!!
Anyone who lived through the ages of Revenge of the Nerds and Girlpower will appreciate this film. It is one of those films that delivers everything you want in a "spring break movie" PLUS it makes fun of the college film genre. It's funny, it's got a cast to die for (Amy Pohler! Rachel Dratch!, Sophie Monk!, Parker Posey! Jane Lynch! Amber Tamblyn! Missi Pyle!) and its guaranteed to make you laugh out loud. Writer/ actor Rachel Dratch is a comic genius and Sophie Monk is such a great villain. Wilson Phillips! OMG! (I'm just repeating myself now...) It will live on with girls who like Miranda July but feel like eating ice cream and pretending they're dumb.
Press Gang (1989)
The good guy or the bad boy?.... oh the dilemma!
For every smart, misunderstood pre-teen girl, Press Gang is the ultimate fantasy. Lynda Day (Julia Sawalha) is the head kicking queen of the Junior Gazette with the enviable problem of being constantly pursued by bad boy Spike (Dexter Fletcher).
Her deputy editor is Kenny (Lee Ross). The nicest, most squeezable back up guy you'd ever like to boss around.
The dilemma for every 12 year old girl is which one is cuter? The good boy or the bad boy?
Get your hands on it, show it to the smartest little girl you know and watch her wrestle with the problem.
The most unheralded role in the series is Sarah (Kelda Holmes). Kelda's beautiful performance of the smart, self obsessed underdog is so fresh and magnetic, you can't help but want her to be your friend.
PS Dexter Fletcher fans definitely need to get Bugsy Molone and Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels .
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
All dead, all the time
Shaun is gen x everyman. He finds a way to take 90s slacking skills and use them to save the world. It makes me feel like I too may have something to offer if we are one day taken over by the living dead. More more more more! The beauty of this film is the goodness of Shaun. He takes risks for the people he loves. He deserves to win. Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright are the voice of every man I have ever wanted to pash. I love nerdy boys who like cricket. Fabulous cast. Call me a shallow bookish thirtyish girl but I'll pay good money to see Dylan Moran read the phone book....hang on.... I think he does that in his stand up act.... This film is in my top five of all time.
Screenplay: Antonia and Jane (1990)
One of my top five films of all time.
One of the happiest accidents in my video shop was discovering this film. It is simple genius. Knock your socks off acting in a she said/ she said formula. This is a modern relationship comedy with a back bone. We follow two sides of a friendship. Antonia and Jane is so much more than a friendship version of a romantic comedy. It says things about women together that are rarely treated with such humour, finesse subtlety. There's also lots of sex jokes.
I put this in my top five films of all time because I always like films about characters who discover they already have the key to their hearts desire.
The grundgeyness of this film creates a lovely world on screen. Buckets of that fab British self depreciating humour.