Definition of buddy movie in US English:
buddy movie
nounˈbədi ˈmuviˈbədē ˈmo͞ovē
North American informal A movie portraying a close friendship between two people, especially between two men.
Example sentencesExamples
- For the film industry, the biracial buddy movie attracts the broadest audience by appealing to both white and black audiences.
- It is at once a coming of age story, a rite of passage, a road trip and a buddy movie.
- Good-natured, hopeful and well-intentioned, the French film Monsieur Ibrahim is the sort of bittersweet coming-of-age buddy movie that will undoubtedly fare well with bourgeois art-house audiences the world over.
- The series is really an extended buddy movie, set in hip Manhattan bars and not in muddy trenches.
- It's a fairly funny buddy movie, in the tradition of Wilson and Jackie Chan in their Shanghai series.