{"id":1159065,"date":"2025-09-19T15:26:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T19:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/?p=1159065"},"modified":"2025-09-19T15:26:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T19:26:03","slug":"watch-these-5-movies-when-youre-done-with-bare-minimum-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/trisha-bartle\/2025\/09\/watch-these-5-movies-when-youre-done-with-bare-minimum-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch These 5 Movies When You’re Done With Bare Minimum Men"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wouldn’t it be nice if life were like the movies and the person you ended up with treated you the way you deserve?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alas, many of us deal with partners who barely scrape by with the bare minimum, leaving us to pick up the slack. That doesn’t mean movies can’t be helpful, though. If you’re sick of accepting the bare minimum, these five movies will show you that you’ve made the right choice. Here’s why you should add these movies to your watch list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Legally Blonde (2001)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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20th Century Fox<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rent on Amazon Video<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

You can’t accept better in life if you don’t think you’re worthy of the world. Watch Legally Blonde<\/em> to see how amazing self-esteem can look good on a person. Plus, it’s nice to watch Elle get revenge on her ex in a way that makes her life so much better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Big Sick (2017)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Amazon Studios<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Watch on Prime Video<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Next, you need an example of a man do way more than the bare minimum so you know what to look for. Kumail Nanjiani’s character sticks by his ex’s side when an illness puts her into a coma. He doesn’t have to do this, but he sees no other way. He loves her. This also gets bonus points as this is exactly how Kumail and his wife Emily V. Gordon found each other and they wrote the movie together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pride & Prejudice (2005)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Focus Features<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Watch on HBO Max<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

If a guy isn’t willing to walk through a foggy meadow just to tell you he loves you, then no thanks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About Time (2013)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Universal Pictures<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rent on Amazon Video<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

When a man is willing to learn as much as he can about you and even utilize time travel just to make sure you get exactly what you want, you know you’ve found a winner. Tim is the antithesis of the bare minimum man, so you can always use him as an example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The First Wives Club (1996)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Paramount Pictures<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rent on Amazon Video<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

If you need a good example of strong women working together to reclaim their power after devastating breakups, this is it. Don’t take the bare minimum–fight for so much better! Plus you can live vicariously through them as they get glorious revenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s time to pick the bar up out of hell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186664081,"featured_media":1086874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"thoughtcatalog_call_to_action":"","tc_post_redirect":"","thoughtcatalog_is_sponsored_content":"0","footnotes":""},"categories":[603203627],"tags":[],"anchortext":[],"posttemplate":[],"adcampaign":[],"coauthors":[603229736],"class_list":["post-1159065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tv-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Pride-and-Prejudice.webp","author_meta":null,"photo_credit":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/186664081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159065"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1159199,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159065\/revisions\/1159199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1086874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159065"},{"taxonomy":"anchortext","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/anchortext?post=1159065"},{"taxonomy":"posttemplate","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posttemplate?post=1159065"},{"taxonomy":"adcampaign","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adcampaign?post=1159065"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1159065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}