How sad is this?

good back-story, and good acting

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

In First Wives Club, Goldie Hawn said: 'There are only three ages for women in Hollywood: "Babe", "District Attorney", and "Driving Ms.Daisy."' Goldie Hawn was for three decades the eternal babe. However, even for Goldie Hawn there came a time, when 'babe' was no longer possible. With Banger Sisters she is for the last time 'babe' and is also saying good bye to this role, as she realised that she is too old for this. Consequently, she never appeared again in any other movie after Banger Sisters, evidently as she does not want to become "District Attorney". Banger Sister is about two women looking back on their lives. They were friends when young but developed in different directions after separating. Suzette (played by Goldie Hawn) stayed 'babe' and worked as bar tender in music clubs, while Lavinia (Susan Sarandon) married a lawyer and politician and became mother of two daughters. They also meet Harry(Geoffrey Rush) who also looks back on his life and on missed opportunities. The film is not perfect. The speech of Lavinia's daughter at the end is just embarrassing. Otherwise it is sometimes funny, sometimes sentimental. The film is also about friendship and how friendship can develop (here between Suzette and Harry) and how friendship can survive over decades.

I loved this film because it reminded me of when i was a teenager and how we didn't care about what happened. But it also made me think about who i am today and if I'm being true to myself.That feeling of do i dress like an old woman, or do i look like the way i feel.I love the 3 main characters and I'm not sure if i'm Suzette or Vinnie, think I'm probably a bit of both.A few years ago i was dressing like Lavinia, but now dress the way i want to and i don't care what anyone thinks.I used to wear stuff like Suzette, but I've toned it down now lol I wish my best friend was here still xx

The movie was an enormous surprise. I expected s0me 90 minutes of thin fun, and I got to see one of the best, simple small movies about the life we most often let pass by and let it to very few we usually consider half wrecks to live it, not understanding what we've done with what was given to us and we did refuse. I don't expect this review to help you, but it helps me to see it clearer. Most reviewers did understand nothing, and demonstrated so that people feel better when aging as working, seeing, loving, behaving as zombies, in other words like 90% of those who drove us crazy when we were 16 or 22. Thank you all very much for reading this! Besides Goldie Hawn who shines like a handful of diamonds the director succeeded to put together an excellent team of first class actors, they all together give you so many hands full with diamonds that you look like Shiva, the multi-armed Hindu God :-) Mihai-Robert Soran-Schwartz

As an aspiring screenwriter, I've received coverage in the past. I thought it would be interesting to critique this film in that format. ie, what a reader would probably say if this was a spec script.THE BANGER SISTERS102 PagesREADER: #16Genre: Comedy Budget: Medium Location(s): Los Angeles/Phoenix Format: Screenplay Circa: Present dayLOGLINE: An ex-groupie travels across the country to re-unite with a woman who once shared her wild lifestyle but has now become a model citizen.Content summary: There are some nice moments here that touch upon conflicts brought about by generation gaps, but ultimately there are too many unanswered questions. There also isn't a solid antagonist, which in turn doesn't create much of an arc for the lead character.Recommendation: PassComments: There isn't much rhyme or reason to SUZETTE's character. In the opening scene, she goes from being a jaded defiant bartender who could care less about her job to a pleading employee who wants to stay on when her boss terminates her. If she hates her job so much, why would she beg to have it back? Why does her loss of a job make her want to drop everything and connect with someone that she hasn't seen since the '60's? This is never fully explained. The LAVINIA character, her former best friend and groupie, also needs much more development. What events in her life caused her to reject her past and become the exact opposite of what she was? This is never fully explained either.There is some good interaction between Suzette and HARRY, an obsessive compulsive writer/control freak who buys her gas in exchange for a ride to Phoenix. The scene where Suzette accidentally runs into Lavinia's daughter HANNAH at the same hotel on the same floor is too convenient, and having the girl drop acid and vomit seems unnecessary. However, it does bring out the gentle, caring side of Suzette's personality, which makes her a more likable character.The first meeting between Suzette and Lavinia starts to have some depth. Lavinia isn't thrilled to see her long lost friend. When Lavinia tries to reconcile, Harry (and the audience) learn more about their attitudes, and Harry begins to let his guard down around Suzette. He has feelings for her, even though he wouldn't dare admit it.There needs to be more visual action in the story. As written, most of the scenes are dialogue. The writer uses a car as a visual medium when GINGER (Lavinia's second daughter) is on her way to her driving test. But then we cut to a long scene of talk between Lavinia and Suzette. This is a pattern that holds true for most of the scenes in the script. The dialogue needs to be trimmed and we need to see more events happening.Lavinia's sudden rebelliousness towards her life comes totally out of the blue. One minute she's sitting at a table acting like her usual uptight self, then in the next she gets dazed and speaks mystical talk about Jim Morrison. Again, there isn't a clear catalyst that causes this shift. It just happens. The remainder of the story plays like a girls night out, and Lavinia starts to have more of an arc than Suzette, who basically stays the same from beginning to end. As the protagonist, her lack of inner and outer growth weakens the structure and makes the story feel less satisfying.There also isn't a definable antagonist in the script. Lavinia's current lifestyle seems to be an opposing force to Suzette, but this is vague, and its power lessens when Lavinia gives into her impulses and becomes a party girl. Now there doesn't seem to be any antagonist left to defeat.There is a sense of growth near the end when Hannah gives a moving graduation speech, but there isn't a strong dramatic climax where both the protagonist and antagonist have everything to lose. The ending is a bit of a letdown when Suzette simply walks away from what she traveled so far to find: her friend. It would have been better if they bonded and stayed together instead of separating.Conclusion: The Suzette character needs to have much more of an arc and there needs to be a stronger, more definable antagonist for this to have a better chance in the marketplace.