Beaches (1988)

This 1988 movie machine-guns through the career and relationship highs and lows of lifelong best friends C.C. and Hillary as if in a hurry to fit into its runtime the tearjerker bit at the end.

★★★★☆

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The Stepford Wives (2004)

Rich with material for a big screen adaptation, Ira Levin's book is a macabre suspense thriller and a kind of bodysnatching horror with lots of room for black humor and feminist commentary, but at the cost of this potential, Frank Oz's big, glossy and not very remarkable Hollywood adaptation treats the material primarily as a goofball comedy and has Bette Midler, Matthew Broderick and Nicole Kidman hamming it up as the new residents of the all-too-perfect surburban paradise, Stepford, where residents live picture-perfect 1950s lifestyles thanks to an army of worryingly subservient, docile female homekeepers.

★★★☆☆

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The First Wives Club (1996)

Three women played by Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn and Diane Keaton are jilted by their husbands and so band together to exact revenge in this comedy popular among middle-aged women, mostly funny, at least for its first half, but let down by an unrewarding last half and unnecessary voiceover narration (probably to emulate the voice of the bestselling book upon which the movie is based.)

★★★☆☆

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