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Summary: This was a great movie!
Review: I saw this flick this afternoon and loved it. I would go again this evening if someone else wanted to see it. What more can I say - every one of the cast members excelled. Goldie was her usual brilliant, as was Susan. The kids were marvelous and the gents were perfect.Kudos.
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Summary: The over-the-hill Gang rides again
Review: Seeing Goldie prance around like a five dollar hooker was very upsetting...I enjoyed the Geoffry Rush character and I think it would have been a better movie if the movie was more about him. Sarandon is a great actress and did her best to make the part work. But I could never get past the cartoon character that Goldie provided. She was in fact the heroine in the story. She understood children, even if she had none of her own. She saved and resurrected the soul of Geoffry and Susan, even if her life was a total wipe-out. Unbelievable!Save your 8 bucks, wait for the video.
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Summary: Groupie reunion
Review: Goldie Hawn and Susan Sarandon play women who were groupies during the 60's. Goldie Hawn is still a hippie, having never really changed, but Susan Sarandon is the wealthy, conservative wife of a lawyer husband, and the mother of two rebellious teenaged girls. When Goldie's finances go south, she decides to pay a visit to her old friend, Susan, to see if she can help out. Along the way, she picks up a failed writer, played by Geoffrey Rush, who is returning home with the avowed purpose of killing his father. Hawn causes quite a stir in Sarandon's uptight suburban home, but she does succeed in loosening up her old friend as well as Geoffrey who has obsessive-compulsive tendencies. This movie is great fun and is played to the hilt, especially by Goldie Hawn.
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Summary: The Banger Sisters
Review: It was not like a big blockbuster type of movie, but it was a good movie to see on a rainy day. It was very good. Goldie Hawn and Susan Sarandon shine! I recommend everyone to see it- men will like it too!!
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Summary: Banger Sisers
Review: Twenty years later the character played by Sarandon has grown up, but the Hawn one is still stuck in her twenties. This movie is about that reunion and were life has and will take these two. I was disapointed in the plot line. Hawn is fired from her job and "whalla needs to look up her rich friend." Sarandon's character decides to loosen up after her friend appears and does, but what does that have to do with how her family deals with her transformation and what will happen with this next? The film is sometimes crude, do we really need to view the poloroids of male body parts from their collection of previous encounters? There is a reason for the title, do we need to dwell on it more that once? The movie does have some laughs, some fun, it's fun to see these two together, but with thir talents it could have been so much more.
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Summary: A little gem of a film....
Review: Many critics have already not been kind to "The Banger Sisters". Perhaps they didn't like "First Wives' Club" either, but that film has become a Goldie Hawn classic. And "Banger Sisters" has all the same elements that will make this a screen and DVD favorite, as well. The key to Hawn's success has always been successful partnering with other actors and actresses that act as a catlyst for her charm. In this film, she's fortunate to work with Susan Sarandon, perhaps even better with Goldie than the combination of Diane Keaton-Bette Midler. Sarandon's character is a little bit of both. The comedy is gentle and the message has both women, in their late forties, go in search of what has been missing from their adult lives. They have a crazy camaraderie that was born of shared experiences as rock groupies in the late 60's and early 70's, when sex and drugs were plentiful. Hawn's character, Suzette, has continued to live the experience, and the film opens with a scene of her being fired from her job as a bartender. Sarandon's character (Vinnie, now Lavinia), took a different road when she split from Suzette, and she's now the successful wife of a wealthy man with political aspirations in Phoenix. Lavinia's devoted herself to the care and raising of her two daughters, and is dismayed, at first, when Suzette shows up. She's never confided her wild teenage experiences to husband or daughters, and they're frankly shocked at her choice of friends, and the influence Suzette seems to have over her. The contrast is best expressed when Vinnie realizes her whole life, like her perfectly kept and coordinated wardrobe, has been "beige". A plot contrivance involves character actor Geoffrey Rush as a hapless writer who arrives with Suzette in Phoenix, and evolves from an obsessive schmuck to a man whose been woken up to life again by the unpredictability of life with Suzette . Rush is peerless in his role, and his character helps to add to the humanity that makes Suzette's life worthwhile. "Banger Sisters" is not laugh out loud funny, but there are priceless funny moments, as Suzette and Vinnie are caught with a toke in Lavinia's basement, while browsing through the Polaroids they took of memorable "parts" of their affairs with rock icons. Sarandon is laughable in her uptight moments, using floral arrangements to make amends with Suzette, and cleaning up the kitchen when under stress. There are also some miscues that aren't believable, like the "throwing chicken" scene, and scenes in which young actress Eva Amurri (Sarandon's daughter in real life) goes over the top as a spoiled brat. The soundtrack of the Banger Sisters does its own star turn in the movie, featuring old hits (Steppenwolf's " Rock Me", "Burning Down the House" by Talking Heads) new covers by unusual artists (Tommy Lee doing Bowie's "Fame", Trevor Rabin's cover of "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood") and great new songs by Richie Sambora and Dishwalla. The soundtrack is most evident in the movie's poignant scenes....Vinnie and Suzette dancing in a club, being "poster children" for a "got milk?" ad, and consoling each other outside the hospital where Vinnie's daughter is being treated. Hawn and Sarandon are memorable and priceless in a little gem of a film. They light up the screen, make you believe in forever friendships, and hopefully set the stage to return to film as a duo. I disagree with reviews that label this a mediocre movie, and urge you to see it, and enjoy!
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Summary: Goldie and Susane are the Movie!
Review: THE BANGER SISTERS is a movie that has a lot of mixed emotions about it. Goldie Hawn (Town & Country, Out-Of Towners) plays a character that is so far from her normal persona that it almost didn't work. But by the end you realize that Goldie is the cornerstone for many of the characters in the film. Primarily that of the talented Susan Sarandon (Cradle Will Rock, Cat's and Dogs) who transformation and power shift really is believable. The film is directed by Bob Dolman (writer of Far and Away, Willow ) who takes a while to get the story moving but once the two ladies get their characters in gear - it picks up,. Some wonderful performances by Susan's oldest daughter played by Erika Christianson (Swim Fan, Traffic) and her husband played by Robin Thomas (Clockstoppers, Bullworth) and the their contrast in understanding what their lives are really about. Basically it's the story of a two women who were wild and crazy with sex and rock'n'roll in their youth having been separated as time does to everyone and then meeting again twenty years later. Goldie is Suzette a broken down woman who lives the life of a Bar tender in Hollywood and Susan plays Lavine a house wife with a great home, children, family and money. They meet again and realize what they meant to each other and who they really are. There is a standout surprise performance by Geoffrey Rush (Quills, Shakespeare In Love) as a writer with an issue. Again Goldie guides her way in and out of his life for an almost believable storybook ending. I enjoyed this movie. Nothing really special, but its heart is in the right place! (9-22-02)
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Summary: Great movie!
Review: This movie was enjoyable from beginning to end...many "laugh-out-loud" moments. ( This is not strictly a "chick flick"..I think the guys will enjoy it too!)
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Summary: Terrific Cast Trudges Through Hollywood ...
Review: A golden premise and a good cast are not enough to reclaim this movie from such a hollow script. Ultimately, this may be worth renting, but as an evening out you may be disappointed, as this offers surprisingly few laughs and not very good drama. Goldie Hawn plays a bubbly bartender at L.A.'s Whisky-a-Gogo who, back in the sixties, was one of two legendary groupies dubbed (by Frank Zappa, no less) as "the Banger Sisters." When Suzette finds herself hired by the young management, she jumps in her car and drives to Arizona to catch up with her fellow Banger, who has gone completely straight, has a wealthy lawyer husband and a perfect suburban life, and does not welcome the living reminder of her wild past. All kinds of dramatic possibilities are botched. Susan Sarandon, as "Vinnie"-"Lavinia," does her best to make some sense but there's not much there. Her transformation consists of a mysterious comment about Jim Morrison, and an unmotivated food fight. "I lost me," she says, but there is no glimpse of what that is, or how she reconciles it with the life she has now. The family complains that their life has been ruined, when nothing seems to have happened. And Sarandon is condemned to do meaningful things with her eyes at the end, when it is not clear how she or her family has changed. (Except for her haircut, that is.) Her best scene is when she is surprised at a compromising moment by her family, and is struggling to keep her mature-mom mask on despite the hilarity that is breaking through; at last, life! Real human behavior! Nothing is done with the character of the husband, and that is a terrible mistake. Also, we are cheated because we do not get to see the hilarious teenage daughters forced to re-evaluate her mom and realize she's "cool." We are primed to expect that scene, and it is LARCENY not to show it to us. Finally, there is poor Geoffery Rush playing an obsessive-compulsive writer carrying a briefcase with an old typewriter, and a gun with one bullet. Another potentially interesting element lost in the soundtrack of sixties' covers, condemned to lines such as, "I think you're my muse," and unmotivated dancing. In sum, the film offers no surprises, and a lot of unprovoked sentimentality over substance. The actors truly make the most of the material and offer some entertainment, but in all it was a disappointment.
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Summary: Cute and Funny
Review: Suzette (Goldie Hawn) used to be one half of the infamous "Banger Sisters", a pair of man-hungry groupies who slept with the likes of Jim Morrison and Kieth Richards. Now she's just lost her job as Bartender at The Whiskey-A-Go-Go, and being broke, decides to go hit up Vinnie, the other half of the Bangers (Susan Sarandon), whom she hasn't seen or heard from in 20 years, for a loan. Suzette knows Vinnie is married to a Lawyer and living in Arizone, but she doesn't know that Vinnie is now Lavinia, the straight-arrow wife, and mother of two.....and although Suzette was Vinnie's best pal, Lavinia isn't going to be too thrilled to see her wild past come strolling into her perfect present. The movie is cute and funny, but the real reason too see it is the performances of Hawn and Sarandon. The chemistry between them is great. Goldie is as cute and sexy as ever, and it's pretty ironic that she's basically playing the grown-up version of her daughter Kate Hudson's character in Almost Famous. Geoffrey Rush is great fun as a neurotic who gets swept up into Suzette's crazy life. The Banger Sisters ain't exactly Citizen Kane, but it was a fun way to spend a few hours.
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