The First Wives Club

1996 "Don't get mad. Get everything."
6.4| 1h42m| PG| en| More Info
Released: 20 September 1996 Released
Producted By: Scott Rudin Productions
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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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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GamerTab That was an excellent one.
Protraph Lack of good storyline.
Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."
u-32076 This movies makes want to throw up every time. Why? Because it is stinking pile of... well you know what. It starts with S and ends with T.
Davis P In 1996's the first wives club, we are told the story of 4 Middle Aged college friends: Annie, Brenda, Elise, and Cynthia. Each of them had husbands leave them for younger women. Cynthia commits suicide within the 1st 10 minutes of the movie, suffering from drinking and depression when her husband left her for a much younger, better looking woman. They all decide to get together and in Cynthias honor and get revenge from their husbands. This movie offers up very funny jokes situations and also features women empowerment. In the end it offers up a great message. And also features a great cast from Bette Midler(Hocus pocus) to Goldie Hawn(Private Benjamin) to Diane Keaton(father of the bride) Stockard Channing (Grease) as Cynthia, Sarah Jessica Parker(sex and the city) and Elizabeth Berkley(Showgirls). As you would expect from this A-list cast, the acting is very good in this film. There's also a very funny scene in a lesbian night club, when the women are trying to win over Diane Keaton's daughter to help them. This is a well-made feel good movie that anyone can enjoy whether male or female. Seven out of 10
MoviesForAM "First Wives Club" is an example of excellent movie making. The pacing, the continuity, the look of the scenes and the characterizations are all very funny and charming and entertaining. For a big budget holiday movie made to make money, it does its job and does it very well. Midler is especially excellent. So is Dan Hedaya as her ex and Dame Maggie Smith as a friend indeed. I think that the major reason that the movie is unappreciated by too many critics is because it's a "woman's picture." It's designed to be a very light comedy that brings in women and their families to generate box office. Whatever its genre, however, the movie works in every way it's intended to work. The sets are great, the costumes are perfect and the acting is really funny and also touching when it needs to be, such as when Sarah Jessica Parker says to Bette Midler, "Brenda, this outfit might look really good on you... why don't you try one on in YOUR SIZE!" Midler's fury suddenly deflates, and she exhibits pathos. Lots of funny lines and facial expressions and over-the-top emotion, and the directing was, I think, very precise and well done.
david-sarkies Well, this was an entertaining movie, but it did not really stand out. The movie started off slowly and seemed to end in a whimper. The main characters came out on top, and the men that they were trying to manipulate were successfully manipulated. This is not an original movie as I had seen it all before in She-Devil. The only difference was that it dealt with three women instead of one.The basic premise is that four women graduated from college together full of idealism. Later in life their idealism is destroyed as their respective husbands walk out on them - and each of them handle it in a different way. One destroys herself with alcohol, another constantly complains and tries to hang onto her son, while another remains oblivious to the fact that anything is wrong. The forth one throws herself off of a building and it is this event that draws them all back together. They realise that they had given their respective husbands the best years of their life, and this has been discarded by them, so they decide to get back at their husbands and destroy them. Basically it becomes a similar plot to that of She-Devil.There is nothing that really stands out in this movie that I really wish to discuss. It looks at the frustration that women face in divorce, and though this may be a rare case, women can be just as vicious in divorce proceedings as can men. If we look at Liar Liar, we see a woman milking the man for all that she can get - while here the men have used the women and thrown them away. I agree that men can be bastards, but so can everybody.I guess the purpose of this movie was to try and bring us into the women's point of view - but the theme can be gender-neutral, with the exception that men (or men that I have known) will simply wallow in their misery, while women will carry on. Even then that statement is not entirely true as everybody reacts to a divorce situation differently. I was going to make a comment that it was based on a book written by a female, while the screenwriters and directors were male, meaning that the female psyche is not portrayed as well as say a film by Amy Heckerling. But this film does no such thing and is really a movie about people being thrown away and then climbing back up to the top.In conclusion, I will say that this is not an outstanding or impressive movie, and though entertaining after the first few minutes, it is nothing that I will really talk about that much.