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The First Wive's Club (1996) - Movie Details

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Release Date: September 20, 1996
Genre: Comedy
Director: Hugh Wilson
Writer: Paul Rudnick, Robert Harling, Olivia Goldsmith
Cast: Eileen Heckart, Jennifer Dundas, Bronson Pinchot, Marcia Gay Harden, Elizabeth Berkley, Stephen Collins, Victor Garber, Stockard Channing, Dan Hedaya, Sarah Jessica Parker, Maggie Smith, Diane Keaton, Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Running Time: 102 minutes
MPAA Rating: Rated PG for thematic elements, some mild language and sensuality.

Marriage has turned into a crash dive for Brenda Morelli Cushman, Elise Elliot Atchison and Annie MacDuggan Paradise. These three well-heeled Manhattan women were chums during their college days, but they all took different paths. Brenda married an electronics-emporium magnate, Elise became a film star, Annie an Upper East Side housewife. They all helped their husbands build up hugely successful businesses. Now they're reunited by catastrophe: each has just been callously dumped by her husband...

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The First Wives Club, starring Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, and Bette Midler, was supposed to be a funny, vivacious comedy. Instead, it was almost an incessant bore with a bunch of giddy, frantic women. But, judging from my mother's reaction, women will like it more than men, especially married women. Full movie review »

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Anonymous says:

March 16, 2004

good movie

No HTML. Be kind - your mom might read what you say.

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