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did anyone else love this movie??


one of my absolute faves

Angela
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I loved Babycakes, I have Babycakes on tape. Babycakes is My favorite Ricki Lake movie

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i just watched my dvd again the other day when i made some livejournal icons.... this movie is still one of my faves. i wish i would have taped it when i first saw it but of course i didn't. i had to wait for the dvd

Angela
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I love this movie! Haven't seen it in many years but I remember so much of it. I especially liked that Ricki's character didn't have to lose weight to win the man of her dreams. I also loved that fact that the man she won was gorgeous! It seemed very realistic, too, and not like a fairy tale where she just won him over in an instant. That never seems to happen in movies/shows for women. There are movies coming out all the time with the nerdy/fat/geeky/whatever guy winning the beautiful girl but not the other way around.

There really should be more movies like this for women. We are constantly bombarded with images at movies, TV, magazines, you name it, of thin (too thin these days)women with perfect faces. Even the female coroners on TV have to look good, for crying out loud! The male ones don't. It's a constant message to females you're not good enough if you aren't thin and have the face of a model. It truly angers me!

Anyway, this is still the best movie of this type (overweight girl gets gorgeous guy)that I've seen, with none looming on the horizon it seems.

By the way, I don't even care for romantic movies but I still love this one!

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Love, love, love this movie. I identify with a lot with Grace's issues...dead mother, eating her feelings, feeling inadequate and invisible, etc etc etc...

Last night I made my husband watch it with me and he actually paid attention and liked it. :)

"Hey guys! Whoa, Big Gulps huh? All right! Well, see ya later!" Dumb & Dumber

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This movie is hard to find since I think it was originally a made for TV movie but I did just recently watch it on YouTube. I do not agree with copywright infringement but this movie is near impossible to find and I do not even think there is a DVD on it so I did watch it on YouTube.

It is cute. I think Craig and Ricki did a great job. For a made for TV movie I thought the writing and the acting, were great.

Craig is a great actor, terribly under-rated maybe by choice. I have been a fan of his for years.

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Me too! I watched it with my gal pals it was so amazing lifted all our spirits!

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