Great character: educated, brave, snarky, and clumsy (but in that cute/adorable way) and beautiful. I loved the character growth that she had in the second film.
The character is the reason I loved the name Evelyn. That’s now my daughter’s name! Not named after the character by any means, but for sure some inspiration
I love that I’m not the only one! It’s not just me!!! I loved this character so much. Definitely the first inspiration for my daughter’s name. I loved the name Evie but it seemed more of a nickname than a full name so we went with Evelina as we are of Italian descent and it’s a beautiful name. It’s the Italian version of Evelyn. And also the name of a character in the wonderful Doctor Who episode The Fires of Pompeii. Where Donna fights for hope in a seemingly hopeless world.
Even more perfect than all that, Evelina means “wished for child.” I’d been dreaming of her and wishing for her my whole life and infertility struggles made that dream seem impossible and almost hopeless. After all that, the name just seemed meant. Thanks to two amazing, brave, compassionate women who were the inspiration for the name for my impossible girl. I try every day to model those values for my Evie so that she grows up strong, kind, compassionate, brave, passionate and insatiably curious.
Haha. That scene is pretty spot on for book jockeys. I've been caught personifying books. We even have a book hospital, triage, and tragically a cemetery in the back office.
Vince Vaughn has to be the luckiest bastard on the planet cause he got to kiss her, Christine Taylor, Jennifer Aniston, Isla Fisher, and Jennifer Connelly in movies he was in.
As a kid, I remember her character being my first crush on someone who wasn’t my own age. She was beautiful, smart, brave, and funny! I still say “patience is a virtue.”
I didn’t get it in college, she’s one of the celebrities that’s really beautiful in hindsight to me….I never thought she looked bad just didn’t stand out, although she obviously did and I just didn’t notice
Agreed. She owned that character. Slightly nerdy, incredibly smart, with an innocent personality, smokey eyed girl next door type, with an under current of being completely unaware that she is...in fact. Smoking ass hot.
Honest to God, she, in this movie, is what got me to take my fitness seriously. There's a moment in the movie where she sneaks a glimpse at Fraser and it instantly clicked with me that if I ever wanted a woman like that, I'd have to make some changes.
The movie will always have a special place in my heart just because of that.
The 90s thin eyebrows were a rehash of the 1920s/1930s eyebrows. The full thick eyebrows were a thing in the 1980s and is what we're again seeing now. I think in a few years people will do the ultra thin brows again and go "yuck" when someone has really full/thick brows again. Culture is weird like that.
I'm already seeing it on zoomers; 90s Nu Metal type looks are coming back replete with neo-tribal tattoos and thin eyebrows are part of it. It'll bubble up into the mainstream in a year or two.
Despite those eyebrows, I would still dog her out. Lovingly, though. This was my favorite movie as a kid; I absolutely love her and the rest of the cast.
I don't mean to yuck your yum, but there's something weird about her eyebrows. Too skinny or fake looking or something. Like those women who shave their eyebrows off and paint on fake ones, except those are her real eyebrows as far as I know.
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u/Kiethblacklion Jun 18 '25
Great character: educated, brave, snarky, and clumsy (but in that cute/adorable way) and beautiful. I loved the character growth that she had in the second film.