1. Fried Green Tomatoes Death Becomes Her Calendar Girls It’s Complicated

2.  How does Film portray women over 40  Are there any roles available for women over 40  Is 60 the new 40  What lengths will women go through to maintain youthfulness  Are women over 40 still considered desirable

3. Jessica Tandy Old Wise Happy Strong Self Confident Quick Youthful despite her age Kathy Bates Middle aged Unhappy - Happy Insecure - Confident Overweight - Healthy Submissive- Aggressive Because of an older wiser friend she transforms herself and becomes more than she was in her youth

4.  How much women value their youthful appearance and to what extent they will go to maintain it  Fantasy, exaggerated, comedy

5.  Women over fifty raised money by posing nude in a calendar  Very popular  Went to Hollywood  Sexy  Self confident  High self esteem

6.  Middle Aged Woman  Confident  Successful  Beautiful  Has multiple suitors  Ex-husband desires her over his much younger wife  She is not afraid to be alone

7.  First Wives Club  Joy Luck Club  Thelma and Louise  Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood  Mamma Mia  Under the Tuscan Sun  The Bridges of Madison County  Somethings Gotta Give

8.  Actresses careers are lasting longer  Women are viewed as more than a sex symbol, emphasizing that sex appeal is not the only thing women offer  Their worth seems to rise with age and wisdom  Women are viewed as independent and strong  Men are realizing that substance over style is more important

9.  Women feel that once there sex appeal changes they are not as desirable  Focusing to much on outward appearances  Plastic surgery

10.  Have created many movies that empower the ageing women  Still portray women as sexy over 40  Creating more movies with roles for women over 40  Are casting women over 40 in roles of a sexy nature (partly because women over 40 look much younger)