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Mothers looking to connect with their teenage daughters - but don't want to learn instant messaging to do it - might find some common ground on the couch catching a flick. Mother-Daughter Movies: 101 Films to See Together (St. Martin's Griffin; $13.95) suggests titles that authors Rosemary Rogers and Nell Rogers Michlin say are fun to watch and lend themselves to discussion.

If you're interested in tackling family relationships, try The Joy Luck Club (1993) or Moonstruck (1997); or if you want to address peer pressure and popularity, pop in Never Been Kissed (1999).

Each movie's entry summarizes the plot and then rates its "bonding potential," the hunk factor and the hankie factor - both things than can bring moms and daughters together.