Girlfriends

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Girlfriends

PG,

1978,

1h 28m,

Comedy/

Drama

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93%

60 Reviews

Tomatometer

70%

250+ Ratings

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93%

Tomatometer

60 Reviews

70%

Popcornmeter

250+ Ratings

A New York City photographer feels an overwhelming sense of loneliness when her roommate moves out.

Critics Consensus

Intelligently written and beautifully acted, Girlfriends captures the rhythms of female friendship -- and late '70s New York -- with a deftly assured hand.

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Susan Stark

Detroit Free Press

May 18, 2023

Calling Girlfriends a promising directorial debut only seems to damn it and its maker with faint praise. It is promising in the same sense that Francis Coppola's 1968 The Rain People and Steven Spielberg's 1974 Sugarland Express were promising.

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Eleanor Ringel Cater

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

May 18, 2023

Girlfriends is a film whose parts are bigger than its whole, an imperfect film that succeeds almost in spite of itself.

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Martha DuBose

Sydney Morning Herald

May 18, 2023

Girlfriends is a unique experience: a wry and unflinching presentation of contemporary women facing up to universal conflicts and, for better or worse, making their own decisions.

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Rene Jordan

El Nuevo Herald (Miami)

Jan 18, 2024

This is a heroic film, realized with much devotion and little presumptions. [Full review in Spanish]

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Dustin Chang

Floating World

Jan 9, 2024

There is no wrong or right choice. There is only her choice. Independence is the key word in Girlfriends. Then there is sisterhood.

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Catherine Chapin

Charlotte Observer

May 18, 2023

The story is an old one... But the theme underlying Girlfriends is much more absorbing: the quality and the element of luck in friendship.

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Hagrid L

Feb 28, 2017

I love the depth and diversity of moments in this film. Nothing is clean cut or black and white, nothing is really resolved.

Hermione W

Nov 17, 2016

After best friends of Susan and Ann live together for many years, Ann makes a decision to finally move out of there apartment to live with her fiancé and eventual husband, Susan would then have to adapt and revaluate her lifestyle all over again.

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Abraham R

Jul 15, 2011

Between a 6/10 and 7/10, Claudia Weill (better known for her docus) offers a sympathetically feminist look at a young, unattractive woman who's trying to make it as a photographer in NY, sans help or men.

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Synopsis

A New York City photographer feels an overwhelming sense of loneliness when her roommate moves out.

Director: Claudia Weill
Producer: Claudia Weill
Screenwriter: Vicki Polon
Production Co: Cyclops
Rating: PG
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 1, 2009
Runtime: 1h 28m
Sound Mix: Surround

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