There are still some men out there who claim to hate any and all chick flicks. These men are either really insecure, liars or both. While these guys, and countless others, might despise the genre as a whole, certain chick flicks are immune from such bile, if only because they're actually good movies. With Valentine's Day — the unofficial chick-flick holiday — upon us, here are six female-friendly films that should suffice for men as well ..... even the insecure ones.
 

Clint Hale

‘DREAMGIRLS'
STARS: Jamie Foxx, Beyoncé, Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Hudson
PLOT: Documents the rise, fall and subsequent resurrection of a dynamic 1960s soul music trio.
WHY GUYS MIGHT LIKE IT: Beyoncé is onscreen (never a bad thing), Eddie Murphy is hilarious (and not in the unintentional, “Norbit”-like way) and Jennifer Hudson blows the doors open in her Academy Award-winning feature film debut.

‘THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA'
STARS: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt
PLOT: An aspiring journalist (Hathaway) takes a job as an assistant to a tyrannical magazine editor (Streep), while balancing friends and a relationship with Vince from HBO's “Entourage.”
WHY GUYS MIGHT LIKE IT: Good acting is good acting, and Streep gave one of the best performances of 2006. Plus, the women all look like they just stepped out of an issue of Vogue. Perhaps they did.

‘LOVE ACTUALLY'
STARS: Hugh Grant, Keira Knightley, Liam Neeson
PLOT: Follows the exploits of several couples during Christmas season in London. Among those featured are a well-meaning widower (Neeson), a woman caught between best friends (Knightley) and one unlucky-in-love prime minister (Grant).
WHY GUYS MIGHT LIKE IT: Bill Nighy, playing has-been rocker Billy Mack, gave one of the most underrated — and perhaps funniest — performances of 2003. Plus, in true British comedic fashion, there's plenty of foul language, nudity and lewd humor to go around.

‘MEAN GIRLS'
STARS: Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Tina Fey
PLOT: Cady (Lohan) is befriended by an A-list group of high school elite (dubbed the Plastics), but when she falls for one of their exes, the battle is on.
WHY GUYS MIGHT LIKE IT: It features a curvaceous Lindsay Lohan, before she became the Skeletal Artist Formerly Known as the Curvaceous Lindsay Lohan. And Tina Fey's screenplay is top-notch, unlike just about everything she produced while writing for “Saturday Night Live.”

‘PRETTY WOMAN'
STARS: Richard Gere, Julia Roberts
PLOT: A well-to-do businessman needs an escort for his upcoming calendar, so he hires a good-natured hooker to fill the job. Then, the two actually end up falling for one another.
WHY GUYS MIGHT LIKE IT: Though Roberts used a body double for her now-infamous nude scene, a nude scene is a nude scene.

‘WHEN HARRY MET SALLY'
STARS: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan
PLOT: Harry (Crystal) and Sally (Ryan) meet, become friends and decide to disprove the myth that a man and woman can't keep things strictly platonic. They fail and actually end up married in the end.
WHY GUYS MIGHT LIKE IT: Three words: fake orgasm scene.