Going through a breakup?
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Updated 4 months ago,January 12, 2025
Breakups are the worst.
No matter who did the breaking, itll leave you gutted and raw.
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Thoroughly depressed and filled with barely concealed rage.
What should you watch?
It depends on the stage of your breakup, but I have one for each.
The Breakup (2006)
For when youre still in the breakup phase.
The longer youre together, the longer the breakup lasts.
Anyone whos taken a year to finally end it understands.
In this classic, Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn call it quits slowly and with lots of fights.
If you need that last little kick to finally say enough, this ought to do it.
Sometimes it takes our friends to finally say enough is enough and pull us out of our tear-stained stupors.
They teach her how to be single (and you, too).
Let your annoying friends win and youll be one giant step closer to being over this breakup.
No wallowing for you.
You want to believe that you could find someone so much better in the near future.
He meets sweet Drew Barrymore, and all bets are off.
My Best Friends Wedding (1997)
For when you cant handle a happy ending.
If you cant have a happy ending, then why should anyone else, right?
This is the rare occasion when Miss Roberts plays the bad guy.
Second Act (2018)
For when you need a big change.
Its never too late to have the life youve always wanted.
Even though Gina Rodriguez and her boyfriend still love and respect each other, their relationship cant go on.
As her friends help her deal with the fallout, consider them your friends, too.
It can hurt so much to look back on the relationship after its over.
It manifests as this deep, physical pain.
Wouldnt it be better if you didnt have to feel it at all?
What if you could actually wipe all memories of them from your mind?
Thats what this classic answers when Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet break up.
Theres nothing quite as powerful as a woman scorned.
Unless its three women.
But when he betrays all of them, theyre left with some serious skills for vengeance.
