20 Best Reinvention Movies (Get Inspired!)

Melanie Griffith’s hard-working character, Tess, a secretary trying to rise the ranks of the business world, seizes the opportunity to make a name for herself when her idea-stealing boss (Sigourney Weaver) is out of the office with a broken leg.

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When a pair of polar opposite sisters (Toni Collette and Cameron Diaz) discover they have a grandmother (Shirley MacLaine) living in Florida, their strained relationship takes a turn for the better.

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In this comedy and ultimate reinvention flick, it takes Angela Bassett’s character a trip to Jamaica to begin a trip of self discovery.

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Julia Roberts plays a hooker with a heart of gold (and megawatt smile) who woos a well-off Wall Streeter and discovers the smart, confident person within herself.

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Everyone can see a little bit of her own family in this heartwarming tale about a late bloomer (Nia Vardalos) finding love.

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Baby (Jennifer Grey) finds her legs in this dance classic, going from Daddy’s Girl to Johnny’s Girl.

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Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson play strong-willed characters who make for good comedy…and chemistry.

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Frances (Diane Lane) visits Italy after a painful divorce and, on a whim, purchases a fixer-upper villa, renovating it and her life.

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Two women, one in England, the other in California, swap homes for much-needed vacations—and each changes her own life for the better.

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A high-powered, hard-working woman (Diane Keaton) becomes a mom, much to her surprise, and goes from making bank to making baby food.

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Jane Austen themes come to life through six women who form a book club at a low point in their lives.

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Three college friends (Bette Midler, Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn) reunite at a funeral and, when learn they’ve all been dumped by their husbands, decide to band together. Revenge has never looked better, or more fun.

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Hugh Grant’s character pursues single mothers to up his romantic odds, a plot that goes awry when he ends up overlapping with a suicidal mother and her offbeat son.

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In a film that won seven Academy Awards, three veterans return from war to find that they and their families must learn to readjust.

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An heiress who has amnesia after a boating accident (Goldie Hawn) is wrongly identified as the wife of a handyman (played by Hawn’s real-life partner, Kurt Russell). Eventually, she learns to love her new life and the three rowdy boys who come with it.

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OK, so she’s totally not a midlife woman, but Reese Witherspoon is undeniably endearing as a Malibu babe who, chasing a boy, enrolls in Harvard Law School and turns into a mega smartie. (Catch Witherspoon in Sweet Home Alabama, another reinvention flick favorite.)

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It’s the post-Civil War classic that taught us to say, “Tomorrow is another day.”

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A womanizer (Mel Gibson) gains the ability to hear women’s thoughts that teaches him just how much he didn’t know about the opposite sex.

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In one of Audrey Hepburn’s most famous roles, her character is taken from the streets and made a lady.

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George Bailey is about to commit suicide but has the chance to see what the world would have been like without him. It’s a holiday movie, but timeless.

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