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The First Wives Club (1996)
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Release Date:
20 September 1996 (USA)
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Tagline:
Getting even... this fall. more
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Reunited by the death of a college friend, three divorced women seek revenge on the husbands who left them for younger women. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar.
Another 3 wins
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3 nominations
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(25 articles)
Gold Derby nuggets: Marc Shaiman added to Oscarcast team | Pete Hammond cheers 'Blind Side' | Sasha Stone on state of Oscars race
(From Gold Derby. 23 November 2009, 3:36 PM, PST)
Oscar 2010: Marc Shaiman to Be Telecast Music Director
(From Alternative Film Guide. 23 November 2009, 2:13 PM, PST)
(From Gold Derby. 23 November 2009, 3:36 PM, PST)
Oscar 2010: Marc Shaiman to Be Telecast Music Director
(From Alternative Film Guide. 23 November 2009, 2:13 PM, PST)
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Instructive - maybe not; hilarious - definitely!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Bette Midler | ... | Brenda Cushman |
 | Goldie Hawn | ... | Elise Elliot |
 | Diane Keaton | ... | Annie Paradis |
 | Maggie Smith | ... | Gunilla Garson Goldberg |
 | Dan Hedaya | ... | Morton Cushman |
 | Sarah Jessica Parker | ... | Shelly Stewart |
 | Stockard Channing | ... | Cynthia Swann Griffin |
 | Victor Garber | ... | Bill Atchison |
 | Stephen Collins | ... | Aaron Paradis |
 | Elizabeth Berkley | ... | Phoebe LaVelle |
 | Marcia Gay Harden | ... | Dr. Leslie Rosen |
 | Bronson Pinchot | ... | Duarto Feliz |
 | Jennifer Dundas | ... | Chris Paradis |
 | Eileen Heckart | ... | Catherine MacDuggan |
| Philip Bosco | ... | Uncle Carmine Morelli |
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Rated PG for thematic elements, some mild language and sensuality.
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103 min
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Iceland:L |
USA:PG (certificate #34443) |
South Korea:15 |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:PG |
Chile:14 |
Finland:K-8 |
Germany:12 (w) |
Ireland:12 |
Norway:7 |
Portugal:M/12 |
Singapore:M18 |
Spain:T |
Sweden:7 |
UK:PG |
Canada:PG
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Miscellaneous: When Aaron calls Annie to go to dinner, Annie says hello before picking up the phone instead of waiting until she had the phone to her ear.
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Spoofed in The Secret Lives of Second Wives (2008) (TV)
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Tangerine
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Like Nine to Five, First Wives Club purports to be making a statement - albeit in comedy mode - about a serious feminist issue, but like that movie is simply an opportunity to portray women getting back at men who have taken advantage of them - and why not?! While the film may have little practical application to the majority of women who are "traded in" for newer models, but whose men are not as well heeled as the husbands in this film, it does provide them with 100 minutes of escapist entertainment from three great American actresses - OK Bette Midler may not be the best actress in the world but she's certainly hugely entertaining.
Midler plays one of three 60s college friends, who meet 25 years later and find that they've each been deserted - her businessman ex-hubby keeps her short of cash while buying skimpy designer dresses for his skimpy girlfriend (Sarah Jessica Parker). The other two in the triumvirate are Diane Keaton as a diffident door-mat, and Goldie Hawn as an alcoholic and facelifted filmstar. But this is one movie where there is no doubt about the characters undergoing an "arc" during its course, and hardly anyone emerges unaltered. Along the way, there are lots of laughs, a few tears, and an unforgettable rendition of You Don't Own Me. Elsewhere on IMDb, some ungenerous souls have used the word hysterical to describe this movie; hysterically funny is nearer the mark.