Woman's film marriage plot. The female protagonists in these movies are driven by something other than romantic love. Within British cinema, David Leland returned to the formula of the 1980s woman's film in "The Land Girls" (1998). The film tells the story of three young women during World War II and offers its heroines the opportunity to escape their old lives. "Bend It Like Beckham" (2002) emphasizes the key generic theme of female friendship and casts the heroine in a conflict between the restrictions of her traditional Sikh upbringing and her aspirations to become a football player. Lynne Ramsay's "Morvern Callar" is
American Girl (film) American Girl (film) American Girl is a 2002 American film directed by Jordan Brady and starring Jena Malone, Michelle Forbes, Brad Renfro, Alicia Witt, and Erik von Detten. The film premiered on October 16, 2002 at the Austin Film Festival. It was later released to DVD on January 11, 2005 under the title "Confessions of an American Girl". Rena is a suicidal teenage girl whose father is serving a long prison sentence. The boy she likes only uses her for sex and other teenage girls tease her relentlessly. Rena and her family travel to the father's prison for the annual