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A friendship between the two people is the key relationship in a buddy film.

Hunted can also be seen as an unusual example of the buddy film genre.

The buddy films of these decades were also hybridized with road movies.

"Joaquin and I haven't had a chance to do a more traditional buddy film," he said.

"The female buddy film is a recent trend in mainstream cinema.

Through the events of the buddy film, they gain a stronger friendship and mutual respect.

Buddy films often deal with crises of masculinity, especially related to class, race, and gender.

"The other side of this is the buddy film as a way to reach out to two kinds of consumers: black and white," he said.

In buddy films, the two men are markedly different, and their relationship with each other is challenged by events in the film.

Throughout the 1980s, the individual roles in biracial buddy films are reversed.

Why can't it be a buddy film?

Reduced to its superficial essentials, "Mississippi Burning" is a buddy film.

Then it settles down, with remarkable ease, into the routine of a two-cop buddy film, extraterrestrials and all.

It is the latest manifestation of one of Hollywood's sturdiest and most successful conventions: the buddy film.

It reimagines the buddy film with such freshness and vigor that the genre seems positively new.

It is a subgenre of buddy films.

At its core "Elizabeth I" is a buddy film disguised as a Renaissance costume drama.

"It's a great buddy film," Khalifa recently told The Juice at www.billboard.com.

Al (played by Reginald Veljohnson) becomes part of the only buddy film where the friends don't meet until the story is over.

What we're seeing is a variation on an established theme: the buddy film as a biracial phenomenon, the buddy system revisited.

The Air Buddies films focus on Buddy's puppies, and they were all direct-to-video releases.

The idea led to a script, but when the script was finally completed, Mak felt uncomfortable with the concept of another male buddy film.

I don't remember that women were treated so badly by men in those buddy films, but the males really take it in "Thelma and Louise."

"I was more interested in the relationships between the two characters and doing a spin on the buddy film," says Mr. Pyne.

Women buddy movies do leave a lot to be desired.

And I think he always wanted to do a buddy movie."

The show was a love story, as much as any buddy movie.

There are so few female buddy movies, written funny for women.

Too bad that potentially hilarious buddy movie was never made.

But that is the path most black-and-white buddy movies have followed since.

Ethan has described it as "a buddy movie for the '90s".

So regardless of superiority in numbers, male buddy movies have a long way to go.

It seemed such a good opportunity to live out the sorts of scenes you find in buddy movies.

AS with all great film genres, the buddy movie has a built-in structure.

"The first third of the film is really an amazing buddy movie with those five actors.

I enjoy buddy movies as much as the next guy.

From the ads I thought it was a straight-up buddy movie.

Finally, last year, Hollywood gave us a male buddy movie set in California wine country.

It took Hollwyood almost a century to make a great buddy movie about women.

It is also the first movie in the Air Buddies movie series.

The relationships in the earliest black-and-white buddy movies followed the same trajectory.

"Thelma and Louise" is more like a buddy movie.

"If this is going to be a buddies movie, you've got to shelve the chivalry right up front."

Like the buddy movies set in the present, these films suggest that race problems in America are a thing of the past.

I see it as an anti-establishment film that's working against all the buddy movies that came before."

Isn't this how all great buddy movies begin?

Predictably for a buddy movie, Miles and Jack are total opposites.

The ultimate buddy movies, brother stories range from high art to low comedy to art-meets-life.

It is this openness that insures a truer buddy movie than has ever been made about men.