Recommended film: The Heat

[firecat]

The Heat is a buddy cop movie set in Boston starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy. I thought it was really funny, and the humor does not rely on fat jokes (McCarthy is fat), fat stereotypes, sexual assault or harrassment.[1] There are some jokes based on appearance, and a lot of jokes based on class.

Normally I wouldn't see this type of movie in the theater but I did because wanted to reward the producers for making a film of this type that stars women.

There are spoilers in the comments.

[1]ETA: Add "against women". There were jokes about sexual harrassment of men.

Comments

[zeborah]

Every now and then I turn to the movies page in the newspaper, count the number of identifiably female characters vs identifiably male characters in the blurbs, and go away to read a book.

(It often approaches parity for romance, but *two* identifiably female characters? Unheard of!)

I'm going to see if my sister wants to go with me for this. (So far I'm betting yes.)

[firecat]

count the number of identifiably female characters vs identifiably male characters in the blurbs, and go away to read a book.

Exactly.