Movies about women making big changes in their lives

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Happy New Year from Philly!
11-06-10
A friend of mine is running a class on life changes and is looking for good movies about women making big changes in their lives. I immediately thought of you guys and gals. Any suggestions would be helpful.
Thank you.
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i'm SUPER GOOD at Jewel karaoke
11-06-10
er... OK let's see

28 Days (rehab/alcoholism)
Baby Boomers (career woman/raising a baby)
Iron Jawed Angels (ending woman's suffrage)
9 to 5 (women in the work place!)
Mildred Pierce (rags to riches kinda story)
Erin Brockovich
The Miracle Worker (overcoming blindness ) EDIT: i said that wrong. obviously she's still blind at the end of the film.
A League of Their Own (women's baseball!)
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (lol)
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Parm A Shaun
11-06-10
Fried Green Tomatoes
Practical Magic
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

There's many more that I love, but my memory stinks.
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Semper Fooey
11-06-10
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

An Unmarried Woman

My Fair Lady and Pygmylion

The Sound of Music

Private Benjamin

Working Girl

Educating Rita

Norma Rae

Born Yesterday



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MoFo Patrol
11-06-10
A Coal Miner's Daughter
Million Dollar Baby
The Magdalene Sisters
North Country

and I think Little Women might also fit the bill...
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Semper Fooey
11-06-10
Gone with the Wind (I'll never be hungry again!)


And this old one, not well known, but fitls the bill and well done.





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Frau Blücher
11-06-10
The hours, (the three stories are linked by the very day they decide to change their lives).
The turning point
Truly, madly, deeply
Muriel's wedding
My life without me
I am Love
Juillet of the spirits
Searching for Debra Winger
White Oleander