Synopsis
After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts - in the wallet!
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Cast
- Goldie HawnElise Elliot Atchison
- Bette MidlerBrenda Morelli Cushman
- Diane KeatonAnnie MacDuggan Paradis
- Maggie SmithGunilla Garson Goldberg
- Sarah Jessica ParkerShelly Stewart
- Dan HedayaMorton Cushman
- Stockard ChanningCynthia Swann Griffin
- Victor GarberBill Atchison
- Stephen CollinsAaron Paradis
- Elizabeth BerkleyPhoebe LaVelle
Recommendations
- 100
San Francisco Chronicle
It's a glamorous revenge romp, a "9 to 5" mixed with "Auntie Mame," and it gives each star the opportunity to do her best work in a long, long time. - 88
Rolling Stone
The movie, from the 1992 best seller by Olivia Goldsmith, isn't deathless art. But as pure entertainment, this witty revenge romp is sinfully satisfying. - 80
Washington Post
And thanks to great existential one-liners from scriptwriter Robert Harling (with appropriate plaudits to novelist Olivia Goldsmith, of course), gender warfare is made amusing for almost everyone. - 75
San Francisco Examiner
It's funnier, and bitchier, than Clare Boothe Luce's "The Women," and, best of all, it showcases three wonderful actresses who have rarely been better. - 70
Chicago Reader
On one level, The First Wives Club is a snappy satire, well written by Robert Harling (also the author of "Steel Magnolias"--another vehicle for women). - 70
The New York Times
The film is played as witchy, all-star vamping with a lethal sting. What makes its premise especially funny is that, at heart, it's no laughing matter. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
There is undoubtedly a movie to be made about this material -- a different movie. - 50
Salon
But as badly as the younger women in The First Wives Club are treated, none of the three central characters, with whom we're supposed to identify so strongly, comes off that well either.
