I'm home sick with a bad cold and watching whatever bad movies are on tv. Today I chose First Wives Club, a movie I'd seen a few times, over Rocky and The Legend of Zorro.
The great thing about the movie is that it's driven by the women's performances. The men don't feature much in it, unless they're interacting with the wives or the girlfriends. Plus, look at the cast: Stockard Channing, Bette Midler, Diane Keaton and Goldie Hawn (who's done a couple of movies about women getting older, so must have a sense of humour about it).
Seeing such a funny movie about women bonding made me wonder why it took another 12 or so years to get movies like Sex and the City and Mamma Mia made. Those are both adaptations from other things, but they were wildly popular and show the demand for funny films about women.
First Wives Club was made in 1996. To give you some idea of how old it is, the much-younger women who are the reason for the First Wives' divorces are played by Heather Locklear, Sarah Jessica Parker, Elizabeth Berkley and Marcia Gay Harden. Heather Locklear is now only four years younger than Goldie Hawn was when they made the film.
Can you think of any movies made in between that I'm leaving out? Summer of 2008 seemed to me to be the first time in a long time that anyone put out a movie made just for women that wasn't a romantic comedy. Why do you think it took so long?
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