A ridiculous number of AWESOME movies to watch with your teenage daughter

Wanna know why it sucks to have a teenage girl? Oh wait, I don’t have time to write an entire book right now. Fine, then wanna know why it’s AWESOME to have a teenage girl? Because you get to show her all your favorite old movies and watch them together. Look how excited my daughter is about this: 

ZOEY: Why do we always have to watch YOUR old movies?

ME: Because they’re awesome! They really don’t make them like they used to.

ZOEY: What, boring?

ME: Ha ha, very funny. 

But here’s the problem. Every time we go to watch a movie together, my mind goes blank. So I’m making a list. Without further ado, drumroll please, here are 20 awesome movies I can’t wait to watch with my teenage daughter: 

1. Love Actually
   Perrrfect in every way. It’s funny, touching, full of love, but also includes some reality that I think my kid is ready to see. Are there sexy scenes in it? I mean yeah, but she’s 13 years old in 2022. She can handle it.
2. Pretty Woman
   She lovvvvved this movie. Is there a scene when Julia Roberts goes down on Richard Gere? Yes. Is it graphic? No. Will you have to have an uncomfortable conversation with your daughter? Possibly. But that’s a good thing because that means you have an open relationship with her and you can talk about shit like this.
3. Steel Magnolias
   I am DYING to show this one to Zoey because I remember how awesome it is, but I’m a little nervous because she’s never seen me full-on ugly cry before. 

4. Bridesmaids
   So I recently watched this one again to see if she’s ready for it. Within about sixty seconds, I got my answer. No, she is not. YET. But in a couple years she will be ready and then we can watch the diarrhea throw-up scene over and over and over again until we both pee all over the couch with laughter.

5. When Harry Met Sally
   Another one I can’t wait to show her, but I’ll have to. Have you ever jumped the gun and shown your kid a movie when they’re too young and they don’t get half of it? This is one of those movies. But someday!!!!

Okay, here’s where I get lazy and just start listing movies without my brilliant commentary (this is okay because I’m willing to admit that I’m lazy and because if I keep writing stuff about every movie, I’ll never finish writing this blog post)

6. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
7. Dirty Dancing
8. Pretty in Pink
9. Overboard
10. Can’t Buy me Love
11. Sixteen Candles
12. The Breakfast Club
13. Mystic Pizza
14. Ten Things I Hate about You
15. Pitch Perfect (she LOVES these movies)
16. Notting Hill
17. Muriel’s Wedding (I can’t really remember this one, but I remember it being hilariously awesome)
18. My Best Friend’s Wedding
19. Runaway Bride (I don’t even know whether I saw this one, but it looks good)
20. Say Anything
21. Miss Congeniality
22. Thelma and Louise (not yet (cough cough, rape scene) but soon)
23. Hunger Games
24. Mermaids (to show her there’s a mom that’s crazier than me)
25. Flashdance
26. Beaches
    (Just as I expected, I forgot SOOOO many awesome ones! The rest are a BUNCH of movies you guys mentioned on my Facebook post! Thank you!!)
27. Step Mom
28. Mean Girls
29. The Fault in our Stars
30. Fried Green Tomatoes
31. How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days
32. Sweet Home Alabama
33. The Notebook
34. The Joy Luck Club
35. Easy A
36. Sweet home Alabama
37. Practical Magic
38. Ever After
39. The Cutting Edge
40. Footloose
41. Mama Mia
42. Fifty First Dates
43. 27 Dresses
44. Where the Heart is
45. While You Were Sleeping
46. You’ve Got Mail
47. Sleepless in Seattle
48. Some Kind of Wonderful
49. Now and Then
50. 13 Going on 30
51. Real Genius

Oh crap, I was supposed to stop at 20. And I’m sure there are soooo many I’m missing, so please share any I missed in the comments on my Facebook page!

P.S. I HIGHLY recommend Common Sense Media to make sure your kiddo is ready for certain movies before you watch them together.

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