Celebrate The Singlehood: Movies That Will Make You Feel Happy About Being Single

Being single has many advantages. Although celebrated in many art forms, romantic relationships can also be highly tangled, resulting in heartbreak, emotional misery, and even worse. At times in your life, there is a stage where it is best to be single other than being with someone who is doing more damage than good.

In movies, single people also work short shifts. In most cases, single characters in a film are portrayed as depressed and desperate for love, which is what the rest of the film will be about. Otherwise, being single is presented in various media representations as the lowest status a grownup can achieve. But this isn't the case; being single can be pretty fantastic. It's the kind of freedom that lets a person go in any direction, do whatever they want, and have no one to answer to in many ways. But it's simple to overlook the advantages of being alone. Thankfully, a handful of them, but the movies exist to remind us of the diversity of the human experience. Here are ten films that will help you remember why being single is such a wonderful experience.

How To Be Single 

2016's straightforward and appropriately called rom-com Based on Liz Tuccillo's novel of the same name, How to Be Single, explores the various ways young women in New York City deal with being single. Dakota Johnson, Rebel Wilson, Damon Wayans Jr., and Jason Mantzoukas are among the film's outstanding and diverse cast members. The movie also reinforces the idea that it's acceptable to be single. The focus of How to Be Single is Alice (Johnson), who must learn to live alone after splitting up with her long-term partner. Wilson shines as Robin, her best friend, shamelessly enjoys everything being single has to offer. The movie not only leads viewers on a journey of self-discovery but also emphasizes the strength and value of friendship.

The First Wives Club

Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler, and Diane Keaton play three divorcees who seek vengeance on the husbands who abandoned them for younger women in the legendary, single-girl empowerment film, The First Wives Club. The comedy, based on the same-titled 1992 novel by Elizabeth Goldsmith, is fundamentally a homage to friendship as the women join together to not only exact revenge but also to have fun enjoying the single life and their newfound independence. 

Wedding Crashers 

The ideal movie for embracing the potential wildness of single life and all its benefits is the 2005 bawdy comedic farce Wedding Crashers. John Beckwith and Jeremy Grey are two very driven womanizers who make it their life's work to infiltrate weddings to meet and eventually seduce ladies. The dynamic team, Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn, play these two characters. Wedding Crashers brilliantly demonstrates the liberties and advantages that can accompany being unmarried while extolling its allure. The movie celebrates male friendship at its core; even though romance and love inevitably develop, it still portrays the advantages of being single at its best! 

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind 

This melancholy comedy-drama, skillfully directed by Michel Gondry, takes a fantastical idea and turns it into a plausible narrative that primarily takes place in someone's memories. It also states that our positive and negative memories shape us and that there are positive recollections to balance out any negative ones we may have regarding past relationships. Together, these memories make up the whole story. This movie can give singles some comfort in knowing that their past happy and unhappy relationships are present in their present-day memories.

Eat Pray Love 

The 2010 biographical romantic drama Eat Pray Love, arguably the most well-known movie about being single, centers on a married lady who recognizes how unfulfilling her marriage is and decides her life needs to go completely another way. After a challenging divorce, she travels the world alone, leaving her problems behind. Elizabeth "Liz" Gilbert, played by Julia Roberts, is a character on a quest to understand who she is and what she wants out of life. To that end, she immerses herself in other cultures. Inspiring and captivating, Eat Pray Love ultimately conveys the message of the significance of self-love and inner peace.

Someone Great 

Someone Great on Netflix centres on a music journalist from New York City who is heartbroken after getting dumped just before her major cross-country relocation. She and her two closest pals take advantage of everything the city offers as a last hurrah. Gina Rodriguez, Brittany Snow, and DeWanda Wise play the three friends who have one last laugh while strengthening their enduring relationship in the heartwarming movie. While tackling complex subjects like grief, love, and the unbreakable strength of friendship, Someone Great encourages viewers that there is hope after a breakup.

The Ice Storm

If you're a specific age, you might be witnessing friends and family members getting married, having children, purchasing homes, and beginning their own lives. What kind of life is it, though? One marked by failed relationships, partners' waning romances, problematic children starting puberty, and mounting regret over what might have been. At least, this is how marriage is portrayed in Ang Lee's dreary drama The Ice Storm, which is set in the 1970s and explores how oppressive suburban marriage can be. The Ice Storm will make singles wonder the next time they see their married friends walking happily hand in hand how much is going on behind closed doors and have them thinking while spotting families outside their homes in the suburbs during the holidays: "Good luck with all that!" It's a bummer if you happen to be married but a relief if you're single.

The Other Women

Three very different women who learn they are all romantically linked with the same man are the main characters of Nick Cassavetes' 2014 comedy The Other Woman. After knowing more about one another, the group sets out to exact their retribution. The Other Woman, full of belly laughs and cunning plans, begins as a revenge story but develops more as the characters come to know and love one another. The starring ladies embark on a journey of self-discovery and confidence while enjoying chuckles in this comedy about women's emancipation.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

One of our all-time favourite movies on breakups is this one. If you've recently been dumped, keep in mind that one day you'll come to the same conclusion about your ex as Jason Segel's character in this movie. since he is. Believe us. Forgetting Sarah Marshall is a film that will cheer up anyone worried that they may never get over their past and leave them looking around the next corner for their next potential companion. It is goofy, humorous, and has a surprising amount of heart.

Legally Blonde 

When sorority girl Elle Woods' Ivy League boyfriend breaks up with her, she decides to go to Harvard Law School to get a degree to win him back. She learns there is much more to her than just her looks and being blonde. Legally Blonde, a classic 2001 comedy that is sometimes cited as the pinnacle of girl power in cinema, encourages audiences to live their most true single lives by reassuring them that they are complete without a partner.

These few movies will make you happy about being single, so what are you waiting for? Grab the popcorn, watch one of these, and get ready to feel good about yourself!