Watch These Movies Before ‘Little Women’

This year’s holiday blockbusters range from the disappointing Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker to the hellish Cats. However, on Christmas Day itself there is one new movie that should warm your family’s hearts instead of murdering their eyes. Greta Gerwig’s artistic adaptation of Little Women has critics raving and has cemented Gerwig as a real talent to watch.

In the meantime, watch these movies before Little Women.

Midsommar

Among Little Women’s absolutely stacked cast is breakout star Florence Pugh, who is really having herself a year. If you want to be cool and say you heard of her before she joins the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the next Black Widow, watch her get terrified in broad daylight in Midsommar.

Lady Bird

Lady Bird is Gerwig’s debut as a sole writer/director and already her talent was on full display. The high school coming of age genre is well-worn territory, but Gerwig’s early 2000s teenage girl outlook on the material is so warm and specific yet universal that you realize why this format endures.

The Joy Luck Club

White people definitely don’t have the monopoly on movies about women bonding across generations. The Joy Luck Club, also adapted from a novel, views these relationships through the prism of the Chinese-American immigrant experience.

Frances Ha

Before she was directing movies, Greta Gerwig was acting in movies basically as the kinds of characters she now writes. Frances Ha, which she co-wrote with eventual husband Noah Baumbach, is about a young New York dancer just trying to get by you know?

Big Little Lies

One of Little Women’s biggest selling points is the sheer talent of the assembled cast of legendary actresses. That’s also the selling point for HBO’s California mom murder mystery Big Little Lies. Heck, they both have Meryl Streep and Laura Dern.

Hanna

After collaborating on two movies, Saoirse Ronan has established herself as Gerwig’s leading lady. Considering how long she’s been around, you might be shocked to remember how young Ronan is, but that’s because she’s been a talented actress ever since she was a child. Hanna is all about how gifted she is as a killer despite being a teenager.

Little Women (1993)

Little Women is a novel about the Civil War written just as that conflict was ending. It’s really old. So old that there have been nearly a hundred years’ worth of adaptations. It’s impressive how Gerwig was able to find a new a modern approach to what’s still a progressive novel for the time when it comes to gender. If you’re looking for another take on the material, and want to revisit some cinema history, check out the 1933 version starring Katherine Hepburn.

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