The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love is on Netflix

The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love is now on Netflix. This is a classic LGBTQ+ movie from 1995. Before Laurel Holloman was Tina Kennard on The L Word, she was Randy Dean in this iconic movie. Watch or rewatch it on Netflix now!

The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love is not just a movie with a very long title, it’s also an absolute LGBTQ classic. And now it’s finally on Netflix – probably due to it being Pride month.

It’s a pretty spot-on representation of what it was like to be gay in the mid-1990s. The movie is from 1995 and I personally remember watching it for the first time. And no, it doesn’t have a sad ending. And yes, everyone survives!

The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love was added to Netflix in the US & Canada on June 18, 2024.

Before Tibette, we had Randy & Evie

Before Laurel Holloman was Tina Kennard and one-half of the iconic ship “Tibette” in The L Word, she was Randy Dean and fell in love with Evie in the movie The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love back in 1995. Starring alongside Laurel Holloman as “Randy Dean” is Nicole Ari Parker (Boogie Nights, How it Ends) as Evie.

Randy and Evie are very different in many ways, but they are also clearly drawn to each other.

The official plot of The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love is:

An adventurous love story between two young women of different social and economic backgrounds who find themselves going through all the typical struggles of a new romance.

The runtime is just 1 hour and 34 minutes. Also, it is rated R due to the scenes between the two main characters.

Netflix Pride month hit and miss

During another Pride season, Netflix made the funny mistake of adding the horror movie The Babadook to the LGBTQ selection. We all decided that it represented the B in LGBTQ+ and had a good laugh.

For 2024, however, Netflix has managed to hit the proverbial nail on the head with the addition of this iconic WLW movie.

When watching this movie, it’s easy to see that it’s nearly 30 years old. Still, I suspect that many people watching it will still feel that it resonates with them. Whether you were a teenager when the movie came out in 1995 and can recognize the world, or you’re young today and still nervous about coming out.

Dedicated to the filmmaker’s first girlfriend

The movie was written and directed by Maria Maggenti, who even dedicated the movie to her first girlfriend. With a very peculiar dedication that could be understood in more ways than one.

The dedication comes right before the end credits begin. It reads:

For My First Girlfriend May Our Relationship Finally Rest In Peace

Yeah, that’s a message with some layers to it.

A queer filmmaker

If the name Maria Maggenti seems familiar, it may be because, in recent years, she’s written and produced episodes of TV series such as UnREAL, Supergirl, and Motherland: Fort Salem. In other words, series with strong WLW couples and even a few wishful WLW ships that never came to fruition.

Also, in 2006 she wrote and directed Puccini for Beginners which also features a lesbian love story.

This time with adults though this doesn’t make things much less complicated. Just complicated in a different way. In Puccini for Beginners, the two women frolicking (oh yes, I said it) are Elizabeth Reaser (The Haunting of Hill House) and Gretchen Mol (Nightflyers).

You should also expect to recognize a few other familiar faces when watching The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love on Netflix. For me, Dale Dickey of the True Blood and A League of Their Own series was one. And Toby Poser, an independent filmmaker powerhouse with her family, was another.