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Best Group of friends Movies

Ranked by how strongly each film carries the visual signature of group of friends cinema — measured across 1,296 indexed frames from 14 films, against a 404,689-frame catalogue baseline. Not by box office, and not by vote.

Group of friends films over-index on earrings, plaid shirt and tank top — the objects that make the genre recognisable before a line is spoken.

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    Pitch Perfect (2012)

    Jason MooreDP Julio MacatIMDb 7.1TMDB 7.3See in full on FrameThrower →

    The Barden Bellas are a collegiate, all-girls a cappella singing group thriving on female pop songs and their perfect looks. After a disastrous failing at last year's finals, they are forced to regroup. Among the new recruits is freshman Beca, an independent, aspiring DJ with no interest in the college life. But after she meets Jesse, from the rival all-male a cappella group, Beca has a new outlook and takes it upon herself to help the Bellas find their new look and sound and get back into the competition.

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    How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)

    Donald PetrieDP John BaileyIMDb 6.5TMDB 6.9See in full on FrameThrower →

    Benjamin Barry is an advertising executive competing with two female co-workers for a major campaign for a diamond merchant. He cuts a deal with his competitors that the account is his if he can make a woman of their choice fall in love with him in 10 days. In comes Andie Anderson who, in turn, is writing a story on how to lose a guy in 10 days as a bet with her boss to be allowed to write more substantial stories. With a hidden agenda in each camp, will either party be able to complete their mission?

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    Truth or Dare (2018)

    Jeff WadlowDP Jacques JouffretIMDb 5.2TMDB 5.9See in full on FrameThrower →

    Olivia Barron, her best friend Markie Cameron, Markie's boyfriend Lucas Moreno, along with Penelope Amari and her boyfriend Tyson Curran, and Brad Chang go on a trip to Rosarito, Mexico. In Mexico, Olivia runs into fellow student Ronnie who proceeds to harass her until a man intervenes on her behalf. The man introduces himself as Carter and eventually convinces her and her friends to join him for drinks at the ruins of a mission. There, Carter initiates a game of Truth or Dare with Olivia and her friends, plus Ronnie, who followed the group. Eventually, the game ends when Carter reveals that he deceived Olivia as a means of tricking her and her friends to the mission to offer them in his place in the supernatural game of Truth or Dare. As Carter leaves, he explains to Olivia that the game will follow them and they must not refuse it..

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    Scott Pilgrim Vs The World (2010)

    Edgar WrightDP Bill PopeIMDb 7.5TMDB 7.5See in full on FrameThrower →

    Scott Pilgrim plays in a band which aspires to success. He dates Knives Chau, a high-school girl five years younger, and he hasn't recovered from being dumped by his former girlfriend, now a success with her own band. When Scott falls for Ramona Flowers, he has trouble breaking up with Knives and tries to romance Ramona. As if juggling two women wasn't enough, Ramona comes with baggage: seven ex-lovers, with each of whom Scott must do battle to the death in order to win Ramona.

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    Little White Lies (2010)

    Guillaume CanetDP Christophe OffensteinIMDb 7.1TMDB 7.1See in full on FrameThrower →

    Every year, Max, a successful restaurant owner, and Véro, his eco-friendly wife invite a merry group of friends to their beautiful beach house to celebrate Antoine's birthday and kick-start the vacation. But, this year, before they all leave Paris, their buddy Ludo is hurt in a serious accident, which sets off a dramatic chain of reactions and emotional responses. The eagerly anticipated vacation leads each of the protagonists to raise the little veils that for years they have draped over what bothers and upsets them. Pretenses become increasingly hard to keep up. Until the moment when the truth finally catches up with them all...

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    House of Wax (2005)

    Jaume Collet-SerraDP Stephen F. WindonIMDb 5.5TMDB 6.0See in full on FrameThrower →

    Six friends are on their way to a football game. They decide to camp out for the night and continue driving the next day. The next day the friends find that they're having car troubles, so two of the friends accept a stranger's ride into a small town named Ambrose. The main attraction in Ambrose is the House of Wax. Except something is not right in this town, the wax figures are so realistic and the whole town is deserted - except for two murderous twin brothers. The six friends must fight to survive and escape from being the next exhibits in the House of Wax.

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    Summer of 84 (2018)

    François Simard, Anouk WhissellDP Jean-Philippe BernierIMDb 6.7TMDB 6.9See in full on FrameThrower →

    After suspecting that their police officer neighbor is a serial killer, a group of teenage friends spend their summer spying on him and gathering evidence, but as they get closer to discovering the truth, things get dangerous.

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    The Big Sick (2017)

    Michael ShowalterDP Brian BurgoyneIMDb 7.5TMDB 7.3See in full on FrameThrower →

    Kumail (Kumail Nanjiani), in the middle of becoming a budding stand-up comedian, meets Emily (Zoe Kazan). Meanwhile, a sudden illness sets in forcing Emily to be put into a medically-induced coma. Kumail must navigate being a comedian, dealing with tragic illness, and placating his family's desire to let them fix him up with a spouse, while contemplating and figuring out who he really is and what he truly believes.

What group of friends films are made of

How much more often each element appears in a group of friends frame than in an average frame from the catalogue. A ratio, not a share — earrings is not in most frames, it is simply far more common here than anywhere else.

  • earrings3.8×
  • plaid shirt2.9×
  • tank top2.7×
  • blonde hair2.5×
  • t-shirt2.4×
  • necklace2.3×
  • leather jacket1.7×

How group of friends films are shot

Weaker signals than the objects above, and worth saying so: most dramatic genres skew dark and night-heavy, so these numbers separate group of friends from the catalogue far more than they separate it from its neighbours.

  • 22%high keyvs 12% baseline
  • 15%widevs 20% baseline
  • 89%eye levelvs 69% baseline
  • 59%mediumvs 48% baseline

What breaks the pattern

Good Will Hunting (1997) is the least typical film here — it carries the least of what the rest of this list is made of. Which is either a failure of the genre label, or the most interesting film on the page.

Method

Every frame in the FrameThrower catalogue is tagged for shot size, lighting, time of day, camera angle, colour and the objects visible in it. This page aggregates those tags across 1,296 frames from 14 films carrying the group of friends label, and compares each figure to the same measurement across the whole catalogue (404,689 frames). Films are ranked by how closely they match the theme’s over-indexed elements, weighted by how distinctive each element is; one film per series. Only films with at least 20 indexed frames and 500 TMDB votes are listed.

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