The First Wives Club

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Love it or hate it?

For me it's Goldie's best movie, very funny and containing some hilarious lines.

Brenda: Let's examine the evidence. Look! all bottles and gallon jugs!
Elise: I had guests!
Brenda: Who? Guns N Roses?

Elise: You think that because I'm a movie star I don't have feelings. Well you're wrong. I'm an actress. I've got all of them!

Elise: You've always been jealous of me, even in college! Because I was blonde and beautiful, and could have any guy I wanted!
Brenda: Could and did! All the senior class and half the faculty!
Elise: It was the sixties.
 
Not as funny as I'd hoped.

My favourite Goldie roles are in Private Benjamin and her Oscar winning turn in Cactus Flower.
 
Pretty good. Goldie Hawn and Bette Midler are so charismatic that even when the material isn't great they're just a joy to watch.

Overboard and Death Becomes Her are better though. :D
 
Oh I really enjoyed this film, but I got completely confused by the plot about two thirds through, I wasn't quite sure what the point of the First Wives Club actually was, or what they were doing to their husbands (revenge I guess).

Was the Bette Midler/Sarah Jessica Parker working together thing intentional? They worked together in (the amazing) Hocus Pocus too
 
Hocus Pocus is absolute brilliance. We watch it every Halloween.

As a child I was obsessed with Sarah's song. :shy:
 
Bleh.

Give me Looking For Mr. Goodbar as far as Keaton goes - least that has some PRIME Richard Gere - than this post-meonpausal toss.. I did like Goldie's LIPS and a post-Showgirls/Saved By The Bell LIZ BERKLEY however, and yeah.. what was SJP doing in this.
 
VoR said:
Hocus Pocus is absolute brilliance. We watch it every Halloween.

As a child I was obsessed with Sarah's song. :shy:
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It is a RITUAL, although this year I watched it ALONE because everyone else went out!

For me, it is ALL about Bette's "I Put A Spell On You".

Toyah said:
I bet the make-up budget for SJP in Hocus Pocus was ZERO!
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I thought she looked good. :shy:
 
Rather average really... some nice performances but not one I'd want to see again.

Goldie Hawn gets the best line - 'In Hollywood, women have only three ages: babe, district attorney and Driving Miss Daisy!'
 
"You Don't Own Me" alone guarantees it an 7 minimum from me.
 
This is in my top 10 favourite films of all time.

Brenda (Bette Midler) is THE best obviously, though SJP had one good line, though it was more in the delivery. The bit in the clothes shop where she says to Brenda 'Why dont you try this on, in your size?'

A definite 10/10
 
One of the worst things I've ever had the misfortune to watch. If I wanted to watch a bunch of menopausal women bitching about their husbands, I'd watch Loose Women.
 
There's just not enough of Goldie in her cougar prime. I'm rather excited about the sequel, which got confirmed via Bette or Goldie's twitter and also the studio. Goldie can really SING.
 
God this film really is a testament to the sheer charisma of its three leads, because watching it back it’s a total incoherent MESS! :D
 
Ellie said:
Maggie Smith is MAGNIFICENT in this. “FORK”

In fact everyone is. Sarah Jessica Parker, Bronson Pinchot, the lesbian daughter. Absolutely everyone.
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Googling around the production of this film led me to this hilariously unfiltered interview that Bronson Pinchot did back in 2009.

We didn’t know Risky Business was going to be a big hit. We thought Tom [Cruise] was the biggest bore on the face of the Earth. He had spent some formative time with Sean Penn—we were all very young at the time, Tom was 20, I was 23. Tom had picked up this knack of calling everyone by their character names, because that would probably make your performance better, and I don’t agree with that. I think that acting is acting, and the rest of the time, you should be you, but he called us all by our character names. He was tense and made constant, constant unrelated homophobic comments, like, “You want some ice cream, in case there are no gay people there?” I mean, his lingo was larded with the most… There was no basis for it. It was like, “It’s a nice day, I’m glad there are no gay people standing here.” Very, very strange.
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Courage Under Fire was a low point, because Denzel Washington was behind the incredibly cowardly bullshit of “This is my character, not me.” He was really abusive to me and everybody on that movie, and his official explanation was that his character didn’t like me, but it was a dreadful experience. I should have said to the producers, “You get that guy in line, or I’m out of here.” Life’s too short.

But the next movie I did, the director was getting a lot of crap from his star, and he started to take it out on me one day, and just like a German shepherd—you know when a German shepherd stands up on its hind legs and puts its paws on your shoulders? I put my hands on his shoulders and I very gently but firmly said, “I don’t do abuse, and if you say one more word of abuse to me, I’m on a plane, and you don’t have enough money to keep me here.”

And that was the end of it, and I’ve never taken abuse again. And I wasn’t vile or anything, it just ripped out of me. Denzel Washington cured me forever of thinking that there is any amount of money or anything that could ever, ever make it okay to be abused. The script supervisor on that movie said it’s like watching somebody kick a puppy. He was so vile. And after that, I just would never endure it again.

The First Wives Club (1996)—“Duarto Feliz”

BP: Which is the movie I was just describing.

AVC: So Hugh Wilson would be the director in question?

BP: Yes, because Bette Midler was such a bitch to him. While he was directing, she would be rolling her eyes, pantomiming with her favorite actors, and she made it very difficult. And he was at his wit’s end. He was actually a very nice man, but she was very unkind to him on that movie.
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