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The First Wives Club (1996)

Director: Hugh Wilson

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It's 1969 and four young women, full of peace, love and ambition, are about to graduate. Cut to present-day New York, and the bleary spectacle of Cynthia (Channing), the gang's leading light, thrown over by her husband for pert-breasted wife number two. Lonely as hell, she takes a short walk off a tall building. At her funeral, superstar Elise (Hawn), mouthy frump Brenda (Midler) and doormat Annie (Keaton) realise they too are dizzyingly close to the edge; now saggy and a bit loose at the seams, they've been turned in for younger models. What to do? You've got it - revenge: they're going to kick those badfellas where it hurts - in the pocket. This comedy finds all three stars in wryly cartoonish form, with Keaton particularly charming/irritating. One-liners aside, however, there's no disguising the film's social smugness or predictability.

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Giusy said...

Posted on Dec 10 2008 16:00 The witty script and the memorable performances of three great actresses make this an outstanding comedy. On one side the therapeutic seek for revenge of the three female satisfies hidden instinct, on the other the portrayal of abandonment, though with irony and somewhat lightness, makes us really wonder what we would do if we were thrown apart for a girl who weights twelve pounds and hasn't reach puberty yet.

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