THE BANGER SISTERS!

Summer demands a "feel-good escape" in addition to the fact that I have always had a thing for Goldie Hawn. The tag line bears repeating: "Some friendships last forever... like it or not". Yes, we are quite late in posting this film with my laptop in the repair shop. I am renting a computer to post this much in the same way that the late Orson Welles once said, "As a filmmaker, I pay myself out of my directing jobs. I subsidize my work--in other words, I'm crazy. But the fact is that the films you've seen tonight might not have been made otherwise. Or if otherwise, perhaps they might have been better, but they certainly wouldn't have been mine". HERE, HERE! Nevertheless, as I stated earlier "The Show Must Go On"! The Plot:

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Goldie Hawn and Susan Sarandon are former groupies now entering their 50's. 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 ended (and according to TV Psychiatrist Drew Pinsky, M.D. we are now paying for with the likes of Paris Hilton and Tom Cruise). But I digress...This film is fun! Suzette, for all her character flaws helps Vinnie recover a life she buried for stability and materialism; the two had hilarious after photos of every guy they knew as back stage groupies from Roger Daltry to Jim Morrison (thus the name of the movie) long before having this much fun could kill you and "anything goes" ruled. Actor Geoffrey Rush adds some interesting twists as a stifled and conflicted guy whose career aspirations aren't working. 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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Hawn and Sarandon 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 always cracks me up when she fails her driving test---probably because I failed mine at 16. Yes, a major crisis we can all relate to, but this is side-splitting! So, all-in-all, 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: Goldie Hawn....Suzette; Susan Sarandon....Lavinia Kingsley; Geoffrey Rush....Harry Plummer. Eva Amurri....Ginger Kingsley; Erika Christensen....Hannah Kingsley; Robin Thomas....Raymond Kingsley. NOMINATED in 2003 for a Golden Globe Award for Goldie Hawn, "Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy". WINNER: Eva Amurri, for "Best New Young Artist Award: Best Performance in a Feature Film - Supporting Young Actress".

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IT'S STILL SUMMER...

ENJOY IT!

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