Girlfriends (1978) - (Movie Clip) Thank You For The Hideous Buddha

Girlfriends (1978) -- (Movie Clip) I Caught The Bouquet

At a party following her roommate’s wedding, struggling New York photographer Susan (Melanie Mayron) is greeted by hostess Terry (Jean De Baer), and the sublime first appearance of Christopher Guest as Harry, Claudia Weill directing from Vicki Polon’s screenplay, in Girlfriends, 1978.

Girlfriends (1978) -- (Movie Clip) I Have A War With My Mother

The first scene following the credits, with the two de facto title characters, previously just introduced, Melanie Mayron as photographer Susan and Anita Skinner as aspiring writer Anne, in Claudia Weill’s celebrated feature debut Girlfriends, 1978.

Girlfriends (1978) -- (Movie Clip) How Can You Get Married?

Minimal staging from first-time director Claudia Weill, Susan (Melanie Mayron) rushes to the laundromat with news for roommate Anne (Anita Skinner), who has an update of her own, with the off-screen first appearance of Bob Balaban as boyfriend Martin, in Girlfriends, 1978.