What will the future scholars see when they study us? A portrait of woman today? There you are ladies. On one of the trapped housewife Evelyn Couch's (Kathy Bates) Wednesday nursing home visits, she encounters Ninny Threadgoode (Jessica Tandy), a colorful old woman who brightens Evelyn's outlook on life by sharing tales from her past.Īs Ninny recounts the exploits of her free-spirited sister-in-law Idgie (Mary Stuart Masterson), owner of a small Alabama café in the 1920s, and the bond Idgie shared with her friend Ruth (Mary-Louise Parker), Evelyn gains the confidence to change her own life for the better. One of them panics the following day when she suspects she really has poisoned the tyrant. The trio, one of whom has been passed over for promotion because she is a woman, spend a night together having drug-induced fantasies of killing the slave-driving chauvinist.
#COMEDIC MONOLOGUES FOR WOMEN FROM PLAYS MOVIE#
This movie is an office satire about three female secretaries who decide to get revenge on their tyrannical, sexist boss by abducting him and running the business themselves. But I’ll tell you one thing: if you ever say another word about me or make another indecent proposal, I’m gonna get that gun of mine and I’m gonna change you from a rooster to a hen with one shot! Don’t think I can’t do it." -Doralee And I put up with all your pinchin’ and starin’ and chasin’ me around the desk ’cause I need this job, but this is the last straw…Look, I got a gun out there in my purse, and up until now, I’ve been forgivin’ and forgettin’ because of the way I was brought up. Look, I’ve been straight with you from the first day I got here.
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That’s why these people treat me like some dime store floozy…They think I’m screwin’ the boss…And you just love it, don’t you? It gives you some sort of cheap thrill like knockin’ over pencils and pickin’ up papers…Get your scummy hands off of me. She prides herself on being "just one of the boys" and is horrified at the idea of becoming a girly girl. Unfortunately, Gracie is the only female FBI agent who can "look the part" despite her complete lack of refinement and femininity. When a terrorist threatens to bomb the Miss United States pageant, the FBI rushes to find a female agent to go undercover as a contestant. I would make them suffer so much, that they’d wish they were never born. And if anyone, anyone, tries to hurt one of my new friends, I would take them out.
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I mean, I know that we secretly wish the other one to trip and fall on her face, but oh, wait a minute, I’ve already done that! And for me, this experience has been one of the most, rewarding and liberating experiences of my life. And then I came here and I realized that these women are smart, terrific people who are just trying to make a difference in the world.
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“Well, I would say that I used to be one of them. Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell co-star as two of the sisters' teammates.