The First Wives Club
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Director: Hugh Wilson
1996 / 103min / 35mm
A sleeper smash on its release, Wilson’s curdled revenger’s comedy brings together Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton, and (briefly) Maggie Smith as a quartet of old college pals reunited in middle-age by tragedy, discovering they each plagued by marital troubles… and then deciding not to get mad at their spouses, but to get even with them.
“My sisters and I, as I write in No Fault, absolutely loved this movie. We were way too young for it, probably, but I think we were responding to the incredibly funny slapstick elements that keep the balance pitched just right between satire and seriousness. Every performance in the film is perfect to me, and every actor gets at least one completely, devastatingly, hilarious line of dialogue. Trust me, I’ve memorized the entire script.” —Haley Mlotek
Introduction by writer Rachel Handler on Saturday, February 22nd
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