The First Wives Club (1996)
Directed by Hugh Wilson
After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts - in the wallet!
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You think because I'm a movie star I don't have feelings," Goldie Hawn's character says in The First Wives Club.
Stories about women coming together and possibly breaking the law in the process aren’t necessarily new, but for every 9 to 5 (1980) and The First Wives Club (1996) we get roughly four dozen movies about men doing the same thing.
It's perhaps the new stop on a mature actress' filmography - not district attorney, as "The First Wives Club" joked, but fairytale villain - but Blanchett takes it seriously.
You have to truly plumb the depths of IMDB to find the likes of Outrageous Fortune, The First Wives Club and Baby Mama, and let’s not kid ourselves into believing Sex and the City has gender-spanning appeal.
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It snatches a still-adorable Goldie Hawn, 71, from the jaws of retirement after a 15-year movie drought — reminding us why we cooed over this bubbly funny lady in Private Benjamin, Overboard and The First Wives Club.
In films from Private Benjamin to The First Wives Club, Hawn has made a career of playing varying levels of cluelessness.
As directed by Hugh Wilson ("The First Wives Club" and TV's "WKRP in Cincinnati") from a script he co-wrote with Bill Kelly, "Blast" begins in 1962 with the happily married Southern California couple of Calvin and Helen Webber (Christopher Walken and Sissy Spacek).
Director Hugh Wilson ( The First Wives Club ) invested a great deal of thought and consideration into designing the look of the fallout shelter and the portion of 1998 Los Angeles into which Adam first emerges.
Director/co-writer Hugh Wilson ("The First Wives Club," "Guarding Tess") envisions Adam as a Forrest Gump-like sweetheart bringing naive warmth to the world, and Fraser plays him like Tom Hanks on happy pills.
Wilson, whose previous credits include Guarding Tess and The First Wives Club , dropped what looks like, from the press box, an easy pass.
As directed by Hugh Wilson ("The First Wives Club") and written by Wilson and Bill Kelly, "Blast From the Past" inevitably gives Adam an Eve.
"Blast From the Past'' is the first screen credit for writer Bill Kelly , who co-scripted with the director, Wilson ("The First Wives Club,'' the overlooked "Guarding Tess'').