The sex scene between Mila Kunis and Natalie Portman didn't earn the film an NC-17 rating, which could signal that times could be changing for movies featuring lesbian content.
Movies featuring queer women with an axe to grind have done much better at the box office in the last decade than movies featuring more well-adjusted queer women.
Gina Gershon in Bound, Parminder Nagra in Bend it Like Beckham and Lori Petty in A League of Their Own make it to the best two dozen best butch-esque women in films and television.
Entertainment Weekly released its list of the "50 Sexiest Movies Ever," but we feel the need to add on some lesbian films that they seem to have forgotten.
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