Something to throw into the viewing queue for comparison might be "Down With
Love" the 2003 Renee Zellweger/Ewen McGregor throwback/semi-satire of an early
60s romantic comedy. It's far from perfect, but I think it's trying to be
funny in ways that "That Girl" is now unintentionally so.
It also happens to be directed by the same fellow who did the Ant-Man.
David
From: PGage <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2015 2:08 AM
Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Quickie Review: That Girl
On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 10:46 PM, 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV
<[email protected]> wrote:
Is it possible that for the time period, "That Girl" was just much less sexist
than most other programs? The first series of Star Trek treated women better
than most programs on in the late sixties, but there's a lot that doesn't look
good now.
I'm sure that is a lot of it Dave.
One of the episodes we saw had Ann hosting a dinner party for her parents and
an aunt (and Donald of course). The Aunt kept bragging about how her daughter
was married and had a home and (I can't remember, maybe a kid already, or at
least well on the way), intending a negative contrast with Ann who was still
single pushing 30, and living "alone" in Manhattan (quotation marks because in
retrospect it seems obvious Donald must have been sleeping over often and
banging her regularly). In the end, Ann's parents are able to express their
pride in their daughter's independence (though she still regularly depends on
Daddy and Donald to bail her out of various crises, and she is quickly thrown
into various tizzy fits by seemingly small challenges).
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