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5 Celebrity Besties We Stan This Galentine's Day
Rose are red, violets are blue. On the eve of Valentine's Day, beryllium definite to amusement emotion to your crew.
What started retired arsenic a Parks and Recreation bit astir a group of women gathering for an yearly breakfast on Feb. 13 has evolved into Galentine's Day, a real-life contented for gal pals to grant their unbreakable bond. As Amy Poehler's Leslie Knope explains connected the occurrence of the NBC comedy: "Ladies celebrating ladies. It's similar Lilith Fair, minus the angst."
And dissimilar Valentine's Day—which is typically geared toward couples—the vacation tin beryllium enjoyed by singletons and those who are successful a narration alike.
While detailing the root communicative of Galentine's Day successful 2019, series co-creator Michael Schur said the yearly contented was dreamed up to "eliminate the romanticist aspect" of Valentine's Day "because it's exclusionary to radical who aren't successful romances.
"The thought came astir due to the fact that the amusement was ever pitched arsenic a amusement astir pistillate friendship," Schur told LAist successful 2019, adding that determination antecedently wasn't an authoritative time "set speech wherever we conscionable observe friendships, particularly pistillate friendships."
So, what amended mode is determination to spoil your squad than with a girls' nighttime in? In grant of Galentine's Day, scroll connected for each the movies astir pistillate friendship that are disposable to watercourse online.
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Bridesmaids
Starring Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Ellie Kemper and Wendi McLendon-Covey, the 2011 flick proves that friends volition ever person your back—in singledom oregon beatified matrimony. It's disposable to watercourse for escaped with an Amazon Prime subscription.
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Legally Blonde
There's nary objecting to however Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) has go a pop civilization fig of pistillate empowerment since the 2001 merchandise of Legally Blonde. With her go-getter cognition and her unwavering loyalty to gal pals similar Paulette Bonafonté (Jennifer Coolidge), it's not hard to spot wherefore the bubbly blonde is specified an inspiration to women. Watch her instrumentality connected Harvard, the tribunal and much connected Hulu, fuboTV and Sling TV.
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Girls Trip
This 2017 drama boasting an all-star formed of Regina Hall, Jada Pinkett Smith, Tiffany Haddish and Queen Latifah volition permission you feeling similar you've conscionable gone connected vacay with your besties. Check it retired connected Hulu oregon Sling TV.
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Mean Girls
Can we each just get along, cook a barroom filled with rainbows and hold that Mean Girls is the quintessential usher to the interior workings of "girl world" successful precocious school? Written by Tina Fey and starring Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Amanda Seyfried and Lacey Chabert, the 2004 flick has go a cult classical among friends and frenemies. Watch it connected Pluto TV.
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Booksmart
Directed by Olivia Wilde, this 2019 flick centers astir 2 ace studious seniors (Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever) on a quest to acquisition their precise archetypal precocious schoolhouse enactment earlier graduation. Think: Superbad, but with 2 girlfriends. Stream it connected Amazon Prime.
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The First Wives Club
Hell hath nary fury like a woman scorned—and Diane Keaton, Bette Midler and Goldie Hawn prove conscionable that arsenic divorcées seeking to get backmost at their ex-husbands. In the immortal words of Ivana Trump, who famously made a cameo successful this 1996 pursuing her real-life divided from Donald Trump: "Don't get mad, get everything." Stream it with your ain nine connected Hulu and Amazon Prime.
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Pitch Perfect
Have an aca-awesome Valentine's Day this twelvemonth by renting a sing-along version of the 2012 philharmonic that kick-started an full franchise. For much Pitch Perfect fun, beryllium definite to besides cheque retired its spinoff series, Bumper successful Berlin, connected Peacock.
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Waiting to Exhale
Boyfriends whitethorn travel and go, but true friends are forever. Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine and Lela Rochon show america conscionable that arsenic 4 women each struggling with their ain romanticist relationships in Forest Whitaker's 1992 directorial debut. Watch it connected Disney+.
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13 Going connected 30
Whether you're successful precocious schoolhouse oregon successful your 30s—flirty and thriving, of course—it's ever bully to beryllium reminded how not to place oregon backstab your bestie. Use Jennifer Garner and Judy Greer's 2004 flick arsenic a cautionary communicative and watercourse it connected Peacock.
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Bend It Like Beckham
Keira Knightley and Parminder Nagra are shining examples that nary man, household oregon athletics should travel betwixt friends successful this 2002 comedy. Watch it on YouTube or Disney+.
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Steel Magnolias
With an all-star lineup of Dolly Parton, Julia Roberts, Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah and Olympia Dukakis, this 1989 movie about a radical of women from a tiny Southern assemblage has proven that there's nary enslaved rather similar sisterhood that crosses generations. Prepare for a bully cry erstwhile you watercourse it escaped connected YouTube.
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Wine Country
Amy Poehler's 2019 directorial debut reunites your Saturday Night Live favorites Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch, Ana Gasteyer, Paula Pell and Emily Spivey as they question to California's Napa Valley. Pop a cork with your gals implicit connected Netflix.
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Thelma & Louise
Is determination a much quintessential movie astir pistillate relationship than Thelma & Louise? Settle successful with popular culture's astir iconic gal pals—and peep a young Brad Pitt in 1 of his earliest roles—by streaming this classical connected Amazon Prime or The Roku Channel with a subscription.
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Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar
What bash you get erstwhile you combine 2 champion friends with Florida, a mystical h2o spirit, an eccentric villain and a swarm of lethal mosquitos? This 2021 zany drama starring Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo. Also featuring tons of laughs and heart, arsenic good arsenic Jamie Dornan, the movie tin beryllium streamed connected Hulu.
(E!, NBC and Peacock are portion of the NBCUniversal family.)
Watch E!'s archetypal movie Why Can't My Life Be a Rom-Com? Sunday, Feb. 19, astatine 9 p.m.
