Killer Babes (2007)
"Moordwijven" (original title)

A black comedy. When three wealthy women hire a hit man to get rid of one of their cheating husbands, everything goes wrong.

Director:

Dick Maas

Writers:

Wijo Koek (additional material), Dick Maas,

Stars:

Bracha van Doesburgh, Hadewych Minis, Sanne Wallis de Vries

2 wins & 2 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Bracha van Doesburgh	...	Kitty Kroonenberg
Hadewych Minis	...	Estelle
Sanne Wallis de Vries	...	Nicolette
Kees Boot	...	Cliff
Hans Kesting	...	Evert-Jan Kroonenberg
Bart Oomen	...	Meindert
Bart Klever	...	Ivo
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bert André	...	Funeral Director
Ellik Bargai	...	Salesman
Inge Beekman	...	Old Lady in Canta
Elisa Beuger	...	Handbag Saleswoman
Pierre Bokma	...	Dr. Bilderberg
Marle Brouwer	...	Production Assistent
Horace Cohen	...	Announcer
Margo Dames	...	Female guest

Storyline

Spoiled-rotten airhead Dutch socialites Kitty, Estelle and Nicolette hire criminal Cliff to eliminate their husbands, businessmen which they suspect of adultery. Cliff's uncharacteristic clumsiness in staging accidents and pure chance cause ample complications.

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Plot Keywords:

cheating | jukebox | car accident | yacht | adultery | 

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Taglines:

No body is perfect

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Genres:

Comedy

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

Netherlands

Language:

Dutch

Release Date:

20 December 2007 (Netherlands)

Also Known As:

De botox methode

Box Office

Budget:

€3,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Parachute Pictures, RTL Entertainment, TDMP

Technical Specs

Runtime:

100 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital (Dolby 5.1)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The Maybach driven off the road in a chase sequence cost 650,000 euros and the crew had to make sure it wasn't actually damaged. Things were further complicated because the scene was shot on a forest road with lots of sharp turns.

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Quotes

Nicolette: Sometimes I wonder if we shouldn't do something.
Estelle: About what?
Nicolette: All the misery in the world.
Estelle: Last month we had that charity dinner for Darfur, didn't we? The tickets were more then 600 euro.
Nicolette: But that is so... uninvolved. I bet those people don't have a clue we eat for them.

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Connections

References Amsterdamned (1988)

User Reviews

The colours are coming to get you

This movie is so bright and shiny it may just give some people seizures. I guess that's a deliberate choice of the makers to indicate the characters' decadence, but man does this movie look vile and unpleasant. Apart from that well, it's still not very good. The plot about stereotypical rich women trying to kill their husbands while delivering pseudo-funny superficial dialogues has been done already, and often with better results. The ways in which they keep getting away with everything are highly unbelievable, when one of the characters is electrocuted they just naturally assume it's suicide after roughly two minutes of investigation. The plot is infested with implausibilities like that, and it's pretty annoying. Speaking of annoying, the nudity in this movie is incredibly gratuitous even by cult director Dick Maas' standards. It takes a special kind of director to make me feel annoyed by breasts, but there you have it. And then there's the ending. Man I hate the ending, compared to this ending the rest of the movie almost makes sense. Almost. While Dick Maas' "Flodder"-trilogy is definitely a guilty pleasure I'd recommend to anybody, "Moordwijven" is just a total dud.