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Banger Sisters, TheGoldie Hawn is Suzette, a former teenage groupie now edging unhappily into late middle-age. When she gets fired from her job tending an LA bar, she decides to head off in search of her former buddie Lavinia (Sarandon). Together they were the Banger sisters, legendary late 60s / 70s rock-star shaggers. But as Suzette soon discovers, these days Lavinia prefers the quiet life, looking after her suburban family and trying to make sure that her past remains firmly hidden.
Will Suzette get her life back on track? Will Lavinia come out of denial? What do you think? It's a Hollywood comedy, for goodness sake.
By and large the laughs are gentle chuckles rather than heaving belly laughs, but there are plenty of them. Writer-director Bob Dolman (Willow and Far And Away screenwriter) handles the big stars well, getting a neat restrained performance out of Sarandon and letting Hawn bubble and pout happily beside her in what amounts to an older, faded photocopy of her daughter Kate Hudson's turn in Almost Famous. Best of all though is Geoffrey Rush, as a depressed writer that Suzette picks up en route to Lavinia's. Sly and manic, he steals the show.
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