Say Anything. 1989 John Cusack

Hidden Figures
A League of their Own
Star War Force Awakens
Whale Rider
He Named Me Mahala
Fly Away Home
Norma Rae
The Eagle Huntress
The Great Gilly Hopkins
Anne of Green Gables (1986 version; I haven't seen the new one)
Spirited Away
Queen of Katwe
Kiki's Delivery Service

The Sound of Music

Anonymous wrote:Hidden Figures
The Help
Under the Tuscan Son
The Joy Luck Club

Not The Help and Joy Luck Club is great but can be freaking depressing.

Hidden Figures is very good. Except it is set in the 60s and no one smokes. Not even the mission control people. They main guy pops a stick of Juicy Fruit everytime he gets stressed. My kids were laughing a bunch about it every time he stuck a stick in his mouth.

Legally Blonde
Chicago

Wonder Woman
Erin Brokovich

--Peggy Sue Got Married

Hidden Figures
The Help
Under the Tuscan Son
The Joy Luck Club

Baby Boom is this super cute movie with Diane Keaton who is a top notch ad exec or something like that in NYC. Then she is next of kin for a baby and gets mommy tracked without her consent... More happens but don't want to spoil it for you.

Anonymous wrote:It's that "worthy of emulating" part. There aren't that many movies with heroes of any sex that fit that bill!

Little Women (any adaptation)
Katherine Hepburn's mid-career films like Philadelphia Story

In Philadelphia Story, Katherine Hepburn is an heiress. Try Desk Set.

Agree with His Girl Friday rec.

Strong women characters appropriate for a 12 year old:
--Clueless and 10 things I hate about you (Jane Austen's Emma and Shakespeare's taming of the the shrew)
--Princess Leia (Star Wars--original trilogy)
--Norma Rae
--Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night
--Jane Fonda in the Electric Horseman
--Working 9 to 5
--Working Girl with Melanie Griffith
--Becoming Jane
--Jane Eyre
--Amelie
--Buffy the Vampire Slayer
--Sister Kenny (Rosalind Russel)
--League of their Own
--Miracle Worker

His Girl Friday

It's that "worthy of emulating" part. There aren't that many movies with heroes of any sex that fit that bill!

Little Women (any adaptation)
Katherine Hepburn's mid-career films like Philadelphia Story

OP here. Sorry, I forgot to finish the tag line: "Please recommend movies that feature financially independent women worthy of emulating."

It seems to me that most movies feature a woman who ends up with a husband who takes care of her financially. If the woman actually makes a good living herself she is pictured as bossy/ridiculous/stressed out and at the end of her wits.

Please recommend movies suitable to a 12 year-old girl that feature self-assured, financially independent heroines. I don't want to show her too many Jane Austen adaptations.

Thanks much!