THE BANGER SISTERS!

Since this is Summer, I decided to go with a movie that was such a "feel-good escape" for me when it came out that I saw it four times in two weeks! The tag line is even funny: "Some friendships last forever... like it or not". That, plus the fact that I have had a crush (one of my famous 100 Crushes yet to be published--why bore you?) on Goldie Hawn forever without bad feelings for Kurt Russell, who flies airplanes and is very cool. He just gets an added caveat of waking up with Goldie Hawn every morning!

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Goldie Hawn and Susan Sarandon are former groupies now settling into their fifties. Lavinia "Vinnie" (Sarandon) is a very uptight Phoenix housewife with a lawyer husband, two daughters who are spoiled rotten, and a calendar full of politically correct events to attend. Suzette (Hawn) remained true to their past as one-half of the notorious rocker-lovin' "Banger Sisters" who gets fired from her job on the Sunset Strip as a bartender. So, she decides this would be a good time to look up "Vinnie" decades after the "Flower Power" movement. The film is fun and engrossing as Suzette helps Vinnie recover a life she buried for stability and materialism. The two had "roll in the hay" afterphotos of--shall we say--certain body parts of every guy from Roger Daltry to Jim Morrison and endless others (thus the name of the movie) long before having this much fun could kill you and 'anything goes' ruled. Miss the 1970's yet? Actor Geoffrey Rush adds some interesting twists as a stifled and conflicted guy whose career aspirations aren't workin out as he approaches 50. This becomes serious and exactly how this will resolve is largely placed into Suzette's hands--a girl who is hard not to love, but has spent very little time doing anything for herself over the years.

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Goldie Hawn and Susan Sarandon wearing tight pants (looking good I might add) and doing some real acting bring the story along about the initial effects of Suzette's "liberating" everyone with real life sensibilities. (Sarandon's real life daughter Eva Amurri steals a scene that had me cracking up when she fails her driving test---probably because I failed mine at 16). Yes, a major crisis we can all relate to that is hysterical! So, this is a fun ride with two funny, lewd, good-time ex-groupies. Bob Doleman wrote and directed a fun, sexy and funny film that is just perfect for Summer and leaves you feeling Good with a sense of Hope.

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Cast includes: Goldie Hawn....Suzette; Susan Sarandon....Lavinia Kingsley; Geoffrey Rush....Harry Plummer. Nominated in 2003 for a Golden Globe Award for Goldie Hawn, "Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy". Eva Amurri....Ginger Kingsley; Erika Christensen....Hannah Kingsley; Robin Thomas....Raymond Kingsley. Winner: Eva Amurri, for "Best New Young Artist Award: Best Performance in a Feature Film - Supporting Young Actress".

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ENJOY! :)