It seems like a feminist fable dreamed up by Olivia Goldsmith, the author of "The First Wives' Club."

Stephen Holden of The New York Times described the film as "gripping feminist fable with a savage comic edge".

By the end, when the weather finally improves, the series slips into a feminist fable, with Juanita going to school and finding a fulfilling job and a newly respectful Darrel taking over the housework.

At different moments, it is a sentimental soap opera, a brutal film noir, a feminist fable and a camp musical that makes several sweeping bows to Carmen Miranda.

This is the original feminist fable about the acquired joys of independence and self-respect, and if it seems simplistic at times, it's just a reminder of how bad things used to be.

"Songcatcher," like Ms. Greenwald's 1993 film, "The Ballad of Little Jo," is a modern feminist fable in which an intrepid female explorer successfully navigates through a primitive male-dominated environment.

Ana is the princess and the monster of this feminist fable against the tyranny of man.

Although the time is 1907, the likable but corny movie plays like a contemporary feminist fable.

The author goes a bit overboard with her feminist fable, turning Mary into the Gloria Steinem of Galilee.

There is not a decent (or even half-decent) male character to be found in "Chaos," a gripping feminist fable with a savage comic edge, written and directed by Coline Serreau.