Movie Girlfriends You Wish Were Yours

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She might not have been the lead in the film, and possibly wasn’t even top billed, but she played somebody’s girlfriend and she was everything you ever hoped to find in a girl.  The one.  These are the Interrobang Staff’s top picks for Movie Girlfriends You Wish Were Your Own.

1.  Sloane Peterson, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

“No, Ferris. Don’t skip school and enjoy the best day of your life with your buddy Cameron. You’re going to get in trouble. Think of your future.” Yeah, I don’t remember those lines in the movie either. Plus she’s super hot and possibly foreign, and didn’t mind his crazy friend Cameron, who was most likely in love with her as well.

2.  Annie Hall, Annie Hall

She’s smart, neurotic, dresses like a man and her brother is nutty Christopher Walken. On paper it shouldn’t work but it does. Too bad Woody fucked up and lost her to Paul Simon. Every movie since it seems like he is still looking for her. “La-di-da, la-di-da, la la.”

3.  Kate Libby/Acid Burn, Hackers

Ridiculously hot Manhattan rich girl who liked to grime it up downtown. Played video games, could hack into TV stations and program them to watch whatever you wanted and was down to get busted by the FBI. Also, it’s a very, very young Angelina Jolie.

4.  Mallory Knox, Natural Born Killers

Do you need the kind of girlfriend who will go on the road on a 52 victim killing spree? Also a big fan of crazygirl sex? Mallory may be perfect for you. She doesn’t need a big wedding– a quiet bridge will do– and she’s just as comfortable in a jail break as she is in a van filled with your unruly kids. “How sexy am I now, huh? Flirty boy! How sexy am I now? ”

5.  Ramona Flowers, Scott Pilgrim vs.The World

She’s a beautiful, cool, American in a sea of Canadians; traveler of the subspace highway and kicker of major ass. Ramona Flowers embodies the perfect girlfriend. Sure, she’s aloof, mercurial and you have to battle her seven evil ex’s to be with her, but what relationship doesn’t have its speed bumps?

6.  Penny Lane, Almost Famous

She loves music, she’s comfortable on the road, she has a cute laugh, and an apple bottom. She’s always willing to do a fistfull of ludes and Cameron built a movie around her. She’s not a groupie, she’s a band aid. “Poof you are home.” “It’s all happening.”

7.  Diz in Starship Troopers

She was always there for Johnny Rico, even through him chasing Denise Richards into the Mobile Infantry. She was cool enough to shower with the guys and not take any shit. Unfortunately she was impaled by a giant bug on Planet P.

8.  Rachel Jansen, Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Lives in Hawaii. Has a relatively easy job that gets her hooked up with cool stuff. Is super sexy. Those 3 reasons alone would make her a great girlfriend. Not to mention, she’s not dating Kelso anymore…so that’s cool.

9.  Alabama Worley, True Romance

She’s the hooker with a heart of gold. It’s so sweet that she will step up on a phone book while having sex with a super short boyfriend to make him feel like a big man. James Gandolfini can beat her senseless and she still doesn’t tell him where your money is. What more would any man want but to be stared at with those eyes as she writes “You’re so cool, You’re so cool, on a bar napkin.”

10. Inga, Young Frankenstein

She’s beautiful, loyal and has a sexy accent. What’s not to love? Plus, she’ll totally go along with it if you’re into kinky stuff, like re-animating the dead.

11.  Faye, That Thing You Do

The fair Faye was beautiful, quiet, looked stunning in a gown, and followed her boyfriend all around the country with stars in her eyes and nothing but pride and loyalty for a guy who didn’t deserve it.  She even took his abuse.  But she wasn’t a victim, she was just giving him every chance to be cool.   And with that creep for a boyfriend, you knew you’d just be so much better for her, if only she could see it.

12.  Autumn from 500 Days of Summer

God, Summer was such a bitch. Autumn seemed really nice and to really have her professional life together.