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There's even a pregnant Barbie (played by Promising Young Woman writer-director Emerald Fennell) in an amusing nod to Midge, an actual doll that was considered so "controversial" in the early ...
As the "Barbie" craze spreads across the globe, there are some countries that have either banned or moved to prohibit the release of the billion-dollar film.. The film, directed by Greta Gerwig ...
Barbie’s best friend has had a turbulent history — and was unceremoniously pulled from store shelves in 2002 for getting pregnant. Now she’s back in the movie “Barbie” and ready for her ...
Opting to acknowledge the controversial nature of the Barbie doll, Gerwig chose to create a film where she would be both "doing the thing and subverting the thing", in the sense that she would be celebrating the feminism behind Barbie while also noting the controversial beauty standards associated with it.
Barbie raked in more than $1.4 billion worldwide, making it the highest-grossing movie of the year and the highest-grossing film ever from a female filmmaker. That's why their exclusion is glaring ...
Ahead of its global release later this month, Greta Gerwig’s movie “Barbie” is being banned in parts of Southeast Asia for its on-screen inclusion of a contested map showing the so-called ...
In December 2002, the Barbie Happy Family line included Alan, his pregnant wife Midge, and their son Ryan. Alan was sold with Ryan and a stroller. The line included white and African-American versions of the dolls. Barbie.com said that the pregnant Midge doll was "a wonderful prop for parents to use with their children to role-play family ...
The text below is from the original article, published July 11, ahead of Barbie’s release:. For months, the Barbie movie’s vast unknown has been one of its greatest assets.What little we ...