Boys On the Side | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

I enjoyed every minute of it, and was moved to tears at least a dozen times. It's a brave movie, and it challenges the acceptability of prejudices that are the root of some of the most dangerous social problems of our time.

This is for the same audience who loved Friend Green Tomatoes and Thelma and Louise, which also are movies about women banding together for strength.

Despite ads that present it as a giddy romp, Boys on the Side actually proves to be a wistful romance, a sardonic comedy, a Thelma, Edna and Louise tale of sisterly solidarity, and finally a sad, wrenching story that brings Terms of Endearment to mind.

It's an original, and what it does best is show how strangers can become friends, and friends can become like family.

The three women are so spirited and funny -- so emotionally keyed into all the hearts and flowers -- that they give the movie their own kind of truth.