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Girlfriends
Why this pick
Like Personal Best, it gives a female friendship full emotional weight, observing ambition, intimacy, and drifting priorities with an unusually candid, unvarnished naturalism.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1982 2h 4m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Personal Best
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CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
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Fast Girls
Why this pick
Its relay-team setting carries the same pleasure in athletic discipline and competitive chemistry, while keeping the focus on women negotiating trust, self-definition, and belonging.
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Wendy and Lucy
Why this pick
A spare, compassionate character study with Personal Best’s grounded American realism and quiet attentiveness to a woman trying to retain agency under pressure.
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The Novice
Why this pick
For the darker edge of sports obsession: it closely tracks a woman’s punishing drive to excel, using physical effort and isolation as intensely subjective drama.
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A League of Their Own
Why this pick
It shares the warm, character-first appeal of women competing seriously in a sporting world, with team bonds and rivalry allowed to matter as much as the games.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Scott Glenn
Terry Tingloff
Jim Moody
Roscoe Travis
Mariel Hemingway
Chris Cahill