Synopsis
An unlikely basketball team of unappreciated middle-aged Texas women, all former high school champs, challenge the current high school girls’ state champs to raise money for breast cancer prevention. Sparks fly as the women go to comic extremes to prove themselves on and off the court, become a national media sensation, and gain a new lease on life.
Your Movie Library
Cast
- Brooke ShieldsBeth Humphrey
- Daryl HannahGinger Peabody
- Wanda SykesFlorine Clarkston
- Andrea FrankleKayla Rash
- Virginia MadsenClementine Winks
- Camryn ManheimRoxie Rosales
- Eric RobertsLawrence Humphrey
- Jessica RotheMillie Rash
- J. Patrick McNamaraBoard President
- Charlotte GrahamJocelyn Humphrey
Recommendations
- 63
USA Today
This comedy deserves credit for taking a decided viewpoint — and delivering a heartfelt if occasionally misguided message. - 50
Slant Magazine
Seidelman's attempts to provide positive, alternative representations of marginalized people and problems is overly ambitious. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
The problem is the script, which, in scene after scene, contains no surprises. - 42
The A.V. Club
Early in The Hot Flashes, Brooke Shields is seen reading Menopause For Dummies, and it doesn’t take long to realize that’s precisely what you’re watching. - 40
Village Voice
The raunchy, feminist-revenge jokes are the best part of this feel-good, you-go-ladies sports comedy. - 40
Los Angeles Times
What could have been an empowering and amusing riff on the typically male underdog genre is mostly charmless. - 38
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Hot Flashes don’t generate much heat — comical or otherwise. A pity, since that rare menopause comedy is a terrible thing to waste. - 30
The Hollywood Reporter
Now that the filmmaker has reached a certain age, she no longer seems to have her finger on her generation’s pulse. Case in point: The Hot Flashes, a ribald comedy whose menopause-referencing title is all too indicative of its pandering humor.
