Excess weight is the cause of the mass of complexes of fat people. Depression, self-doubt and fear of undressing on the beach are true friends of all fat and fat women.
Especially for them, we have compiled a dozen motivating films whose main characters do not worry about extra pounds and live well with them: find love, build a career and have children.
10. Treasure | 2009
The main character of the drama Lee Daniels has a terrible life: at 16 she is a very full girl who lives in the Harlem ghetto and is raped by her own father, from whom she is pregnant with her second child.
She is kicked out of school, her mother scoffs at her, the first child is sick with Down syndrome. If you figure it out, then overweight is the least of the girl's problems, but he also gives her a lot of inconvenience.
With the help of a teacher in a new school and her own willpower, she begins to make progress in her studies and has every chance of going to college.
The film in the year of release gathered a whole bunch of awards, including the Oscar for the best adapted script. The highest praise was given to the supporting actress Mo’Nick, who received an Oscar, Golden Globe, BAFTA and several other awards.
9. Love is evil | 2001
The romantic comedy of the Farrelli brothers introduces the viewer to a man named Hal (Jack Black), who, like most men, loves slender women. At the same time, he sincerely wants to learn to see first of all internal beauty, therefore he turns to a psychologist.
The doctor hypnotizes him, “programming” not to notice external flaws. After that, Hal meets Rosemary (Gwyneth Paltrow), whom he sees due to hypnosis as a beauty, although in fact she is very fat.
Only in the end does Hal already in love find out what his chosen one really is.
8. Ruthless people | 1986
A comedy with a cunningly twisted plot that can pleasantly surprise.
At first glance, everything is banal: a millionaire decides to kill his fat bitch-wife, while having a beautiful lover, but his plans are not destined to come true.
Abduction, demand for ransom, blackmail, a maniac who entered the wrong house - all this is organically woven into the narrative.
As a result, the fat woman changes a lot, and the negligent spouse, who has conceived the evil, becomes a victim himself.
7. Nutty Professor | 1996
The comedy starring Eddie Murphy is a remake of the 1963 film of the same name, and the remake is very successful.
The protagonist is a fat and clumsy professor who dreamed of becoming a basketball player. He has already lost hope for a sports career, but still wants to lose weight and even creates a tool in his laboratory.
Having fallen in love with his colleague, he takes risks and takes an unfinished drug that has a magical effect. The elixir turns him into a slender, charming and impudent man who is completely devoid of complexes.
Despite the temptation of such an effect, living on two personalities is quite difficult.
6. Food Corporation | 2009
From comedies and dramas, let's move on to the only documentary on our list that caused a storm of emotions.
The film tells about the technologies for the production of meat, grain and other food, exposing all the inhumanity and non-ecological process.
At the time of release, the picture received 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, and its tagline “You'll never look at your dinner with your old eyes” is absolutely true.
5. The mirror has two faces | 1996
A comedy melodrama with Jeff Bridges and Barbara Streisand (she also acted as a director) talks about a rather unusual couple.
A lonely professor through a newspaper column of acquaintances finds a mate - a teacher from the same university as him. He believes that all the problems in the relationship are due to sex, so he offers his beloved to marry him, but at the same time live without intimacy.
The woman first agrees, but then begins to complex: it seems to him that he does not want her because of excess weight and other shortcomings. Taking advantage of his long business trip, she loses weight, changes her hair and wardrobe, having met her lover who has completely changed.
4. Bbw | 2006
The 2006 American romantic comedy film, written and directed by Nnegest Likke, starring Mo’Nick (from Treasure).
She again plays a fat woman who has many problems due to excess weight and a whole bunch of complexes. She envies her skinny girlfriend until she meets a man who falls in love with her despite her shortcomings.
3. I am losing weight | 2018
The heroine of Alexandra Bortich works as a pastry chef and, due to her love for sweets, becomes very fat and she is abandoned by a guy.
After tears and depression, she decides to lose weight and meets a friend in misfortune - a guy named Kolya, who is also tired of being fat. This acquaintance helps the girl not only to return an excellent figure, but also to radically change her soul by reconsidering her views on life values.
Despite the fact that this is a Russian comedy, it turned out pretty good, without an abundance of vulgar jokes and silly moments (although they are still present).
2. Diary of Bridget Jones | 2001
An adaptation of the Helen Fielding novel of the same name with Renee Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth just fits perfectly into this list.
The main character is a woman slightly over 30, suffering from loneliness and fullness. She decides to quit smoking and begin to lose weight in order to find a worthy man, and in the end attracts just two.
Zellweger's appointment to the main role caused a wave of indignation among fans of the original book, as the actress had a very ordinary figure, but for the sake of filming, Renee gained more than 10 extra pounds and perfectly got used to the image.
1.200 pounds of beauty | 2005
Finish on an exotic note with a South Korean romkom about a talented, kind and smart, but very fat singer. She sings behind the scenes, and before the public opens her mouth a mediocre beauty.
Tired of such a life and unrequited love for the producer, the girl disappears for a whole year, having gone through a course of diets and plastic surgeries. She returns a completely different person and tries to build a career, hiding her real identity.