27-year old movie characters

I’ve (re)watched a lot of movies recently where an important character, most of the time the protagonist, turned out to be explicitly mentioned to be 27 years old (the same age as me) and it’s gotten to the point where I noticed it so often that I started keeping track of it.
I screenshot-ed the scenes I couldn’t find good-quality screencaps of, myself.

Btw it is sooo weird to me that ALL of the 27 old women in their respective movies are really insecure about their age and that it’s always implied that, for women, 27 is an age where you should worry about your desirability diminishing and be very stressed about finding a partner.
Very strange messaging. I mean I am stressed out about that stuff, too, but not because of my age. lol

Also: I really like all the movies on the list except for “Billy Madison”, but beware: “Naked” has a loooot of rape scenes in it, so big TW.

  • Pride and Prejudice (2005) – Charlotte Lucas
  • Frances Ha (2012) – Frances Halliday
  • The House Bunny (2008) – Shelley
  • My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997) – Julianne Potter
    (The guy she’s in love with turns out to be engaged to a 20-year-old btw which of course is being framed as very threatening to her 🙃)
  • American Psycho (2000) – Patrick Bateman
  • Naked (1993) – Johnny
  • Lars and the Real Girl (2007) – Lars Lindstrom
  • Billy Madison (1995) – Billy Madison
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