These Old Broads [VHS]
by Matthew Diamond
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Actor: Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Collins, Jonathan Silverman, Shirley MacLaineDirector: Matthew Diamond
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
Running Time: 88 minutes
Release Date: 2002-01-02
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Studio: Sony Pictures
VHS Movie Reviews of These Old Broads [VHS]
Movie Review: How disappointing!
Summary: 1 Stars
It has a stellar cast, a good screenplay but the director FAILED to get these stars to shine. I was so disappointedMovie Review: Fun Campy Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this movie, eventhough the critics hated it and the TV showing got panned but it is fun to see these actresses camping it up.These women are the last of a generation of real MOVIE STARS. What young actresses today could make this kind of movie and make it work. It is not a great film but it is lots of fun to watch while eating extra butter popcorn...go Liz!!Movie Review: These Old Broads deliver a good show
Summary: 5 Stars
Funny; these women still have it; great cast and good lines between these screen legends. They can make fun of themselves, they have been here at the Hollywood golden age and are still here! Movie Review: THE GIRLS FROM MGM, PARMOUNT AND FOX SHINE!
Summary: 5 Stars
It's a flimsy story, a rather weak and shockingly uninspired Carrie Fisher screenplay. On that alone it should be dismal. But something wonderful happens as "These Old Broads" begins to unreel, four fabulous stars from Hollywood's silver age take the tried old script and turn it into movie magic.
Elizabeth Taylor has the smallest role but turns in a fun and funny characterization complete with a Brooklyn accent. Then there is Joan Collins (Twentieth Century Fox's 1950's answer to MGM's Taylor) who gives us her funniest role since Alexis on "Dynasty" or "Rally Round The Flag Boys". She is over the top as only she can be and it is pure Collins comic gold.
Shirley MacLaine nearly steals she show as a tongue in cheek version of herself. She delivers the comedy and pain required of her role with that gypsy charm and twinkle that are her trademark. But it is Debbie Reynolds who really owns this film. Playing a version of herself she shows that "Tammy" is still unsinkable. She just sparkles and sparks. And in the now famous scene between her and Taylor as they come to grips over "Freddy Hunter" (Eddie Fisher) she is a joy to watch. Touching, tender and wise. That scene is the best Carrie wrote for the film. (Perhaps a catharsis for all three women) For anyone who remembers the Taylor-Fisher-Reynolds scandal it is a treat.
So in the end the film is a tribute to the talent of these women. Taylor is now sadly retired but the other three are still working and showing us that these studio trained actresses are not just fine entertainers. They are still some of the brightest Stars in the Hollywood heavens.
Movie Review: Movie Stars Unite!
Summary: 5 Stars
The very witty and talented Carrie Fisher wrote this film, and it unites classic movie stars Shirley MacLaine, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Collins, and Fisher's mother Debbie Reynolds. For that reason alone, this movie is worth watching. The supporting talent is also great: Jonathan Silverman, Gene Barry, Pat Harrington, Pat Crawford Brown, and Nestor Carbonell.
I loved this movie when it first aired on television, and for years waited for a DVD release (it was released on VHS previously, but only recently came to DVD). It is clear that the women are having a ball.
I find this film to be very funny and entertaining. It's worth watching alone for all of the assembled talent. The picture and sound are excellent, but there are no bonus features (I would have loved an interview with Carrie Fisher).
Summary of These Old Broads [VHS]
Debbie Reynolds's daughter--Carrie Fisher, a noted Hollywood script doctor--cowrote this television movie as a sort of Grumpy Old Women, so the story goes. Viewed in that light, this 91-minute lark is entertaining, if frequently inane. It's the story of the professional reunion of three feuding costars (Reynolds, Shirley MacLaine, Joan Collins) after their '60s musical becomes a cult hit decades later. The fun part is the skewering of their real lives that these actresses good-humoredly allow. Reynolds plays a Vegas casino-owning diva who showcases her own talent and allows her dolt of a husband to run the business side of things--a state of affairs not too different from her real Vegas days. MacLaine offers a comic version of her legendary spiritual persona with such zingers as "My inner child is having such a tantrum." And Joan Collins makes fun of her choice of men with a mobster boyfriend instead of that litigious young husband of some years back. Elizabeth Taylor makes a goofy cameo appearance as the actresses' agent, and Fisher has a lot of fun staging a verbal catfight between the agent and Reynolds over a man named Freddie. (In real life Liz infamously stole Carrie's dad, Eddie Fisher, from then wife Debbie.) All pretty good. But why the framing with MacLaine's "adopted" son, inhabited by the unfunny Jonathan Silverman; and why the too-broadly caricatured producer? Only the daughter knows. --Kimberly HeinrichsComedy Video
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