The Ultimate Girls' Movie Survival GuideTherapy is embarrassing, friends can only help so much, and parents are often useless -- where can you turn when life is getting you down? To the movies, of course. The Ultimate Girls' Movie Survival Guide is a guide to changing your life through the movies. Programmed by teen counselor and movie buff Andrea Sarvady, this handbook includes reviews of the best movies to help you deal with life, love, and everything else -- from family strife to first love, best friends to worst enemies, school days and life beyond. Whether you want to laugh or need a good cry, enjoy a "Best Kiss" or "Most Satisfying Revenge," this book suggests all the right flicks. So pop in one of these 100-plus videos, press "Play," and prepare to feel better.Anywhere but HereBlue CrushBend It Like BeckhamCluelessCrazy/BeautifulDazed and ConfusedDirty DancingEdward ScissorhandsEmmaFootlooseFreaky FridayGirl FightGhost WorldHairsprayHarold and MaudeLegally Blonde, 1 and 2Little DarlingsMermaidsMystic PizzaNever Been KissedOrdinary PeopleOur SongPretty in PinkThe Princess DiariesReal Women Have CurvesRiver's EdgeSay AnythingSixteen CandlesThe Slums of Beverly Hills10 Things I Hate About YouTitanicValley GirlThe Wedding SingerWhat a Girl WantsWhat's Eating Gilbert Grape?And more!

Andrea Sarvady is the author of Baby-Gami, The Ultimate Girls' Movie Survival Guide, and The Modern Neurosis Handbook.

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How to Use This Guide

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FEATURE PRESENTATIONS

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Adventures in Babysitting

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American Graffiti

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Anywhere but Here

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Beautiful Thing

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Before Sunrise

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Bend It Like Beckham

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PRESS PAUSE: Cruel Coach Quotes

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PRESS PAUSE: Gutsy Girls

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Blue Crush

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Boys Don't Cry

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The Breakfast Club

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Bring It On

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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PRESS PAUSE: Scream Queens and Final Girls

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Camp

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Can't Hardly Wait

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Center Stage

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Circle of Friends

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Clueless

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Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen

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Crazy/Beautiful

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

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Dazed and Confused

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Dirty Dancing

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Dogtown and Z-Boys

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PRESS PAUSE: Keeping It Real

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Donnie Darko

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Double Happiness

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Drumline

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Edward Scissorhands

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Election

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Empire Records

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PRESS PAUSE: Music Scene Movies

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Ever After

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Fast Times at Ridgemont High

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Ferris Bueller's Day Off

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PRESS PAUSE: The Buddy System

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Finding Forrester

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Flashdance

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Flirting

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Fly Away Home

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PRESS PAUSE: Natural Woman

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Footloose

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Freaky Friday

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Gas Food Lodging

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Get Over It

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Getting to Know You

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Ghost World

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Girlfight

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PRESS PAUSE: Who's the Girl with the Megaphone?

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Girl, Interrupted

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Girls Town

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Good Will Hunting

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Gregory's Girl

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Hairspray

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PRESS PAUSE: Sizing Up Hollywood

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Harold and Maude

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Heathers

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Honey

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How to Deal

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I Capture the Castle

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I'm the One That I Want

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The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love

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A League of Their Own

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Legally Blonde

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PRESS PAUSE: Movie Heartbreak How-To's

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Little Darlings

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Little Women

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The Lizzie McGuire Movie

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PRESS PAUSE: 'Tween Queens

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Love and Basketball

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Lucas

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The Man in the Moon

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Mean Girls

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Mermaids

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Mona Lisa Smile

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Moulin Rouge

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PRESS PAUSE: Some Great Movies Are Drawn that Way

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Muriel's Wedding

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Mystic Pizza

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Never Been Kissed

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Not One Less

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Ordinary People

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Our Song

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Pieces of April

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PRESS PAUSE: Pick Your Movie Family

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Pleasantville

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Pretty in Pink

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The Princess Bride

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PRESS PAUSE: Great Escapes

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The Princess Diaries

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Pump Up the Volume

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Reality Bites

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Real Women Have Curves

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River's Edge

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Romeo + Juliet

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A Room with a View

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PRESS PAUSE: Best-Dressed Movies

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Running on Empty

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Rushmore

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PRESS PAUSE: School Rules

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Save the Last Dance

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Say Anything

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Selena

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She's All That

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PRESS PAUSE: Leather Jacket or Letter Jacket?

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Sixteen Candles

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The Slums of Beverly Hills

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Some Kind of Wonderful

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Stand and Deliver

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St. Elmo's Fire

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Stepmom

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The Sure Thing

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10 Things I Hate About You

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Thirteen

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13 Going on 30

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Titanic

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Uptown Girls

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Valley Girl

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The Wedding Singer

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PRESS PAUSE: Wedding Bell Blues

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Whale Rider

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What a Girl Wants

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What's Eating Gilbert Grape

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White Oleander

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Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!

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Index

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Acknowledgments

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Meet the Author and the Illustrator

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