The OG of summer movies for the girls, nothing beats Patrick Swayze and this soundtrack! Watch it with your friends who love to dance, preferably at a mountain lake house so you can better practice your lifts.
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Summer Movies for a Girls' Weekend
These iconic, nostalgic summer movies are perfect for watching with friends at the end of a long day in the sun. Have you seen them 50 times? Yes. Will you still laugh/cry/ throw popcorn at them? Absolutely.
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- This movie is for watching with your karaoke or musical theatre besties. Have a fun sing-along and groove like the dancing queens you know you are!
- Watch this one with your lifelong summer camp friends. Make up a secret handshake, laugh at Chessy and Martin’s antics, but we don’t recommend piercing each other’s ears at home…
- Get together with your long distance friends for this movie and see how these girls keep their relationships strong, despite a summer apart. Try a clothing swap, or at least go jeans shopping together.
- This is another movie that’s perfect for a sing-along! Pull out your best blonde wig for “Look at Me, I’m Sandra Dee” and remember how rare it was for a summer romance to make it into the school year. You should definitely find some matching jackets…
- Watch this movie with the friends who you bonded with during the chaotic summer jobs of your youth. Reminisce on the awkward summer crushes you developed, who you think spent too much time together in the maintenance closet, and be glad your lives…
- This one is for your ride or die, best friend for life. Maybe you’ve had your ups and downs, but you wouldn’t ever let a man, armed robbery, or murder come between you.
- Watch Barbie with the friends who have all had a feminist awakening and realized that pink is not the problem. Laugh out loud during I’m Just Ken, but then discuss how maybe he got a little *too* much airtime in the Barbie movie?
- This dreamy movie is great to watch with your literature and romance-loving friends. Ponder what you would write if you were a Secretary of Juliet and dream about what it would be like to have someone climb a balcony to declare their love for you.…
- Watch this movie on a beach weekend with the friends who help keep you focused on your goals and encourage you to get back up when the waves of life knock you down.
- This is a classic movie that will have you swooning over the gorgeous Italian scenery as much as the romance. Watch it with the group of friends who actually bring the trip out of the group text and into real life! Dream about falling in love and…
- We all know you’re only supposed to watch this when you’re prepared to sob, right? This coming-of-age story needs to be watched with friends who will hold your hand, pass the tissues, and promise to stab you with an EpiPen, should the need arise.…
- This movie is perfect to watch with friends experiencing their female rage era. You know, the ones who watch a lot of true crime documentaries and will always have a plan for you–not that you’re planning anything…Anyway, pair the movie with some…
- Watch this movie with your sporty friends and plan to join your community baseball/softball league (if you aren’t already members!). Chat about past wins, old injuries, and what might have happened with one more chance in the big game. Then get out…
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