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TallahasseeGrannie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 07:59 PM
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Would you categorize Brokeback Mountain
as a chick flick?
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Dave Reynolds Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 08:05 PM
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1. Well, it was a love story
that my wife cried during.

Yep, I would.
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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 08:50 PM
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2. Yup, a chick flick, with dudes.
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mondo joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 08:59 PM
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3. Yes - probably 70-80% of audience were women in thhe theater when I
saw it - that's the market.
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 09:02 PM
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4. Yes, I might, if
Edited on Mon Mar-06-06 09:02 PM by QC
I hadn't seen it and had a very reductive way of seeing the world.

It is a love story, but it's a lot more than that: it's a story of love--and lives--destroyed by the closet. That's a very different thing from Shakespeare in Love and the like.
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