Title: Girls Talk
Product review: The First Wives Club is a good-humored but vaguely sadistic revenge picture billed as a madcap empowerment seminar. But madcap and zany? No way. For years, actresses have been complaining that strong roles for women are limited--if not absent--in Hollywood. I couldn't agree more, but the dearth is by no means aided by the dumber than dumb rampage of Brenda, Elise, and Annie (Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, and Diane Keaton).If white men can't jump, white chicks can't dance, and try as it might to be hip and topical, The First Wives' Club instead becomes Waiting to Exhale for white, middle-aged, housefraus. And these three ain't shoopin' no-how. This movie's big-budget gets major mileage on small inspiration.
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