... magazines and often brags to Jane about how she has sex with a lot of guys and that she always notices guys staring at her. Much like Caroline, Angela pretends to be living her dream in an attempt to convince herself that she is. She does not want to realize, as Ricky tells her at the ... end of the movie, that she is ordinary. The stories of sexual encounters that she makes up, in addition to hanging out with Angela, are done in order to make herself feel less ordinary and be what she is expected to be. In this society, she is pressured to be a popular ... in order to pay for his love...

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... to gender. The mother-daughter team in this movie use "love" to swindle men out of their money. Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love-Hewitt play Angela and Paige, the con artists that use their good looks and a long list of cons to get meals, hotel rooms, marriages, and hefty divorce ... Heartbreakers (David Mirkin, 2001) is an exploration of femininity, sexuality, and the usage and affects on the male population and the women that posses these traits. Angela marries at the beginning of the movie, for the thirteenth time, and creates a scam involving her daughter, only to divorce Dean, (Ra...

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... relationships with his wife, Carolyn, and his daughter, Jane, and is desperately trying to figure out how his life became so dull and meaningless. Until he meets his daughter's friend, Angela, and he becomes entranced with her beauty. Carolyn Bernham is a realtor who competes with the "realtor king" and at a point tries desperately to beat her competitor at his own game ... neighbor Ricky whom at first admires her from afar by taping her through her window but is not afraid to go tell her that he does in fact admire her. Angela, Mena Suvari, is Jane's best friend, is obsessed with herse...

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... scene, he could be sending positive reinforcement to his very low self-esteemed daughter, but instead defers to lift weights in order to win the heart of Jane's teenage friend, Angela. In fact, Lester's only demonstration of involvement in the life of Jane comes early in the film when he and his wife, Carolyn, portrayed by Annette Bening, attend a basketball game ... in which Jane is cheerleading. Even then, Lester becomes easily distracted with watching and focusing all of his attention on Angela, who also is a cheerleader. However, this is only another point clarifying Lester's misgui...

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... devour. I believe there would have been many capable black women in the market, who could have depicted the Naomi in the book. These people include Halle Berry, Vivica Fox, and Angela Bassett. It seems that unless a cast is predominantly black, the black stars are playing second fiddle to some supreme person. It seems as if there are limited roles in which ... ...

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