Boys on the Side
Throughout the film Boys on the Side, the three main characters develop a very strong bond despite their characteristics that would normally marginalize their journey. This film breaks the typical binaries expected in movies. For starters, the central characters are all female. In fact, the majority of the males in this film are marginalized, and only cause trouble for the 3 women. Like Nick, who physically and verbally assaults the 3 women which leads to his unintentional murder. And Abe, who thinks he is doing his lover Holly good, by turning her into the police because it's his "duty." The troubles the male characters bring the female characters only makes the bond between the women stronger.
The bond between the women eventually becomes practically like a family. They live together, confide in each other, and basically just look out for each other. This is not the typically family one would expect to see. In fact, even at Holly's trial, when Robin explains that they're like a family, the prosecutor cannot fathom the idea, more than likely because there is no male influence at all in the picture. Yet all of the males in the film have done nothing good for the women, so why is this so surprising? They've only been able to count on each other so far. The three of these female characters set out to prove that nothing is stronger than the bond of sisterhood.