Movies

The Square
The Square looks at the hard realities faced day-to-day by people working to build Egypt’s new democracy. Cairo’s Tahrir Square is the heart and soul of the film, which follows several young activists. Armed with values, determination, music, humor, an abundance of social media, and sheer obstinacy, they know that the thorny path to democracy only began with Hosni Mubarak’s fall. The life-and-death struggle between the people and the power of the state is still playing out.

Rashida Jones
Actress, Producer
The revolution WILL be televised. @TheSquareFilm just nominated for an Oscar for Best Doc. Watch it now on @Netflix

Spotlight
The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.

Rashida Jones
Actress, Producer
Wow. @SpotlightMovie is fantastic. Best movie this year, for so many reasons. Go see it this weekend.

Crazy Rich Asians
An American-born Chinese economics professor accompanies her boyfriend to Singapore for his best friend's wedding, only to get thrust into the lives of Asia's rich and famous.

The Grinch
The Grinch hatches a scheme to ruin Christmas when the residents of Whoville plan their annual holiday celebration.

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Rashida Jones Favourite Movies
Rashida Jones favorite movies - 5 recommendations.

Rashida Jones
Actress, Producer
Rashida Jones favorite movies - 5 recommendations.

Inside Out
Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Riley's guiding emotions— Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness—live in Headquarters, the control centre inside Riley's mind, where they help advise her through everyday life and tries to keep things positive, but the emotions conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school.

Rashida Jones
Actress, Producer
Also...this little indy film is out today. pixar inside out (it's magnificent. See it.)

Dope
Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A chance invitation to an underground party leads him into an adventure that could allow him to go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself.

Rashida Jones
Actress, Producer
I LOVE THIS MOVIE. And I think you will too. BECAUSE IT'S DOPE. It's out today!!

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The Films That Make Rashida Jones Cry
Here is a list of films that make Rashida Jones cry.

Rashida Jones
Actress, Producer
Here is a list of films that make Rashida Jones cry.
Books

Movies R Fun!
Let's face it, reading sucks . . . but movies are fun! In this children's picture book parody for grown-ups, Pixar writer and artist Josh Cooley presents the most hilariously inappropriate—that is, the best—scenes from contemporary classic films in an illustrated, for-early-readers style. Terrifying, sexy, and awesome scenes from such favorite films as Alien, Rosemary's Baby, Fargo, Basic Instinct, Seven, The Silence of the Lambs, Apocalypse Now, The Shining, and many more are playfully illustrated and captioned to make reading fun and exciting for kids who never grew up. A sly celebration of the things fans love most about these legendary films (and movies in general), this is one book that probably should not be read at bedtime.

Rashida Jones
Actress, Producer
If you like things that are awesome, buy the book Movies R Fun. It is awesome. It's also awesome.

Super Sad True Love Story
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deliciously dark tale of America’s dysfunctional coming years—and the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times • The Washington Post • The Boston Globe • San Francisco Chronicle • The Seattle Times • O: The Oprah Magazine • Maureen Corrigan, NPR • Salon • Slate • Minneapolis Star Tribune • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Kansas City Star • Charlotte Observer • The Globe and Mail • Vancouver Sun • Montreal Gazette • Kirkus ReviewsIn the near future, America is crushed by a financial crisis and our patient Chinese creditors may just be ready to foreclose on the whole mess. Then Lenny Abramov, son of an Russian immigrant janitor and ardent fan of “printed, bound media artifacts” (aka books), meets Eunice Park, an impossibly cute Korean American woman with a major in Images and a minor in Assertiveness. Could falling in love redeem a planet falling apart?

Rashida Jones
Actress, Producer
I have thought about your wonderful book Super Sad Tru Luv Story way too often recently. Shockingly prescient.

Moan
Imagine you could give an essay entitled How to Make Me Come to a past, present or future sex partner, free of judgment or repercussion. In this book inspired by Emma Koenig's wildly popular website, a diverse collective of women do just that. Emma Koenig was inspired to answer this question after a truly frustrating sexual experience with a partner. As she says, "The simplest version of this story devoid of all identifying details: He thought I had an orgasm. I hadn't." She knew she couldn't be the only woman to have been mystified by an experience such as this, and so her Tumblr, How to Make Me Come, was born as a safe space for women to talk honestly and openly. The website touched a major chord. It received tons of press and garnered over a million page views in a month. And now, a broad range of the best of these anonymous essays have been collected into Moan. The ways through which women achieve sexual pleasure are often ignored, devalued, or misunderstood. Moan tackles the ideas surrounding the sometimes elusive orgasm head on. Here is a look into the spectrum of desire. Of frustration. Of experiences that have left an impact. From the hilarious to the tragic, from the intellectual to the erotic, these essays will leave you feeling inspired and excited to embark on your own journey of sexual exploration and empower women to do what most of the time is hardest for us: asking for what we want and don't in the bedroom and beyond. What people are saying about it: "Prioritizing women's pleasure is a critical part of our liberation. Not only is Moan an intimate, educational and funny collection about orgasm and desire but it pushes the cultural conversation forward." -- Rashida Jones, actress, writer, producer "Koenig's book is exactly what we need to break the absurd, toxic silence around female sexual pleasure." -- Peggy Orenstein, bestselling author of Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daughter

Rashida Jones
Actress, Producer
The more of the spectrum of women's desires we share, the better! Moan is a wonderful collection of essays that are funny, honest and necessary. Out May 22, pre-order now!

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Rashida Jones Favourite Books
Rashida Jones favorite books - 9 recommendations.

Rashida Jones
Actress, Producer
Rashida Jones favorite books - 9 recommendations.
TV Shows

Girls
The assorted humiliations, disasters and rare triumphs of four very different twenty-something girls: Hannah, an aspiring writer; Marnie, an art gallery assistant and cousins Jessa and Shoshanna.

Rashida Jones
Actress, Producer
Also happy to see two of my favorite shows, "Louie" and "Girls" get the props they deserve!

Louie
Louis C.K. stars as a fictionalized version of himself; a comedian and newly divorced father raising his two daughters in New York City.

Rashida Jones
Actress, Producer
Also happy to see two of my favorite shows, "Louie" and "Girls" get the props they deserve!

Good Girls Revolt
A look at the personal and professional lives of employees at an American news magazine in the late 1960s.

Rashida Jones
Actress, Producer
Good Girls Revolt on Amazon is GREAT! Watch asap & vote for it so I can see what happens next (please).

Downton Abbey
A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.

Rashida Jones
Actress, Producer
And Downton Abbey—I met Matthew Crawley [actor Dan Stevens] at a party in London, and I had so many questions for him.

Twenty Twelve
A mock-documentary following the challenges - both personal and professional - faced by the team responsible for delivering the biggest show on Earth: the 2012 Olympics. From getting a busload of non-English speaking Brazilians from A to B, who to appoint to run the Cultural Olympiad and what to do when the much-vaunted wind turbines won't turn because there's no wind, it's all in a day's work for the men and women whose job it is to stage the greatest sporting event in the world.

Rashida Jones
Actress, Producer
I watch this show Twenty Twelve with Hugh Bonneville, about the planning for the Olympics, and it’s hilarious.

The Bachelor
A single bachelor dates multiple women over several weeks, narrowing them down to hopefully find his true love.
Music

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Rashida Jones' Karaoke Playlist
Here is Rashida Jones' karaoke playlist.

Rashida Jones
Actress, Producer
Here is Rashida Jones' karaoke playlist.
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People

Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Gail Winfrey is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and media proprietor. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which ran in national syndication for 25 years, from 1986 to 2011.

Rashida Jones
Actress, Producer
Who inspires you? Oprah, my mom, and my dad.
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