- Actors: Susan Sarandon, Goldie Hawn, Geoffrey Rush, Erika Christensen, Robin Thomas
- Directors: Bob Dolman
- Writers: Bob Dolman
- Producers: David L. Bushell, Elizabeth Cantillon, Mark Johnson
- Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
- Language English
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: R (Restricted) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: 20th Century Fox
- DVD Release Date: 28 Jan 2003
- Run Time: 98 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00005JLNZ
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 127,692 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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A refreshing take on a well-tried formula, The Banger Sisters proves that there is always room for a polished new "women's picture", particularly one with a high astringent content. The eponymous sisters are a couple of girlfriends with a groupie past who haven't seen each other for years. Suzette (an ebullient Goldie Hawn) has remained a confirmed rock chick. When she's sacked from her bar job, she goes in search of Vinnie (Susan Sarandon) who has excised her past from her life as a staid wife and mother.
The performances are good and there are some cracking moments, not least as the initially resistant Sarandon seizes the memory of her youth and sheds her skin of respectability to the bewilderment of her husband and two daughters. Suzette's visit is the catharsis her old friend has long needed. (In many ways, of course, the most interesting aspect of the picture is the one we don't get to see: the long-term consequences of some pretty sleazy old revelations on a middle class family). But there's a pleasing poignancy in Hawn's decision to go home, her work done. And Geoffrey Rush, as usual, is outstanding as Harry, the neurotic writer she has picked up on the way and who could, just possibly, provide some stability in her itinerant life.
On the DVD: The Banger Sisters is presented in widescreen with a throbbing Dolby soundtrack. There are no extras. --Piers Ford
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
It's always fun to watch this movie! Changed from video to dvd and I don't regret it! Goldie and Susan are very good! To see how two people from the past had different ways until now, how to cope with the past and don't regret it. For me, it's a movie where I can laugh and have a nice evening with.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Goldie Hawn and Susan Sarandon have excellent chemistry in this tale of two ex-best friends who meet again to learn they are no longer as compatable as friends as they once had been. This is a funny, touching and intriguing tale of what happens to people when they evolve, and what happens if they don't. An uplifting and psychodelic soundtrack truly captures the spirit of the film.
The Plot:
Suzette, an attractive, smart-mouthed and sassy ex-groupie, becomes suddenly unemployed without warning; with the due rent impending, no means of income, and no family to lean on, she begins a road trip to Phoenix in the hope of appealing for help from her old best friend Vinnie, whom she hasn't seen in over twenty years. On the trip, Suzette picks up an unlikely travelling partner called Harry (incredible performance by Geoffrey Rush), a neurotic obsessive-compulsive who, much to free-spirited and sexually promiscuous Suzette's shock and amusement, is abstinent and has been so for ten years.
Soon, Suzette discovers that the good old days have well and truly past, and her best friend who was once a vibrant, adventurous and funny woman is now a neurotic, uptight, upper-class woman who is married with two ungrateful daughters. Vinnie - now preferring to be known as Lavinia - finds Suzette's visit as an unwelcome ghost from the past, leaving Suzette hurt, angry and confused how her friend could have lost her identity and become a beige-wearing straight-laced lady.
Suzette's very presence to Lavinia is a sure threat...a threat that could destroy her kids' and husband's perception of who she really is if they discover that she was once a promiscuous, dedicated and fun-loving groupie...a life she swore she would leave behind her forever. But the more the threat is imminent and the more disbelief and fun her children poke at her for Suzette's revelations, does Lavinia begin to feel the desperation for the old Vinnie to resurface and break-free once more.
Goldie Hawn and Susan Sarandon have excellent chemistry in this tale of two ex-best friends who meet again to learn they are no longer as compatable as friends as they once had been. This is a funny, touching and intriguing tale of what happens to people when they evolve, and what happens if they don't. An uplifting and psychodelic soundtrack truly captures the spirit of the film.
The Plot:
Suzette, an attractive, smart-mouthed and sassy ex-groupie, becomes suddenly unemployed without warning; with the due rent impending, no means of income, and no family to lean on, she begins a road trip to Phoenix in the hope of appealing for help from her old best friend Vinnie, whom she hasn't seen in over twenty years. On the trip, Suzette picks up an unlikely travelling partner called Harry (incredible performance by Geoffrey Rush), a neurotic obsessive-compulsive who, much to free-spirited and sexually promiscuous Suzette's shock and amusement, is abstinent and has been so for ten years.
Soon, Suzette discovers that the good old days have well and truly past, and her best friend who was once a vibrant, adventurous and funny woman is now a neurotic, uptight, upper-class woman who is married with two ungrateful daughters. Vinnie - now preferring to be known as Lavinia - finds Suzette's visit as an unwelcome ghost from the past, leaving Suzette hurt, angry and confused how her friend could have lost her identity and become a beige-wearing straight-laced lady.
Suzette's very presence to Lavinia is a sure threat...a threat that could destroy her kids' and husband's perception of who she really is if they discover that she was once a promiscuous, dedicated and fun-loving groupie...a life she swore she would leave behind her forever. But the more the threat is imminent and the more disbelief and fun her children poke at her for Suzette's revelations, does Lavinia begin to feel the desperation for the old Vinnie to resurface and break-free once more.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
In THE BANGER SISTERS, Goldie Hawn doesn't giggle as much as she did thirty-two years ago on "Laugh-In", but, under that unruly mop of blond hair, she can still give that crooked little grin that's just so darned appealing.
Goldie plays Suzette, an aging ex-groupie of the sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll generation who's a legend in her own mind and, undoubtedly, in the libidos of all the musicians she slept with. Just fired from her bartending gig at a Hollywood club by a young boss who doesn't have the proper respect for historical figures, Suzette sets out by car for Phoenix to look up Lavinia (Susan Sarandon), her pal and fellow groupie from the good old days. Along the way, she picks up Harry (Geoffrey Rush), a tightly wound wannabe writer that hasn't had sex in ten years and travels with a pistol loaded with one bullet. She arrives at her destination only to discover that Lavinia has "gone straight", i.e., is married to a lawyer and living a constipated middle-class existence in the affluent suburbs with two spoiled daughters, a banana hammock, and an all-beige wardrobe.
The plot of this film is about nothing more than the effect of Suzette's uninhibited ebullience on Harry, Lavinia, and the latter's family. And, it should have been limited to just Lavinia's small circle if the editing department had perhaps done the smart thing and relegated the subplot involving Harry to the cutting room floor. Sarandon does well enough as a responsible Mom divesting herself of the inhibitions that have layered themselves over a formerly free spirit. To that end, her husband and daughters are nothing more than animated props serving as foils to this process catalyzed by the intrusion of Suzette into their overly-ordered lives. There's one sequence in the family basement involving some revealing old Polaroids that's worth the price of admission.
The best reason to see THE BANGER SISTERS is Goldie Hawn, who, 57 at the time of this film's release, has aged well. She must work out. And when did she get so, um, stacked? Suzette makes a point of telling Lavinia that not everything one sees under her tank top is real. Perhaps that's it - but the effect is remarkable, especially if one remembers the Goldie of an earlier age. In any case, this film doesn't approach being memorable, but the effervescent Ms. Hawn has earned the right to be remembered simply for the delight she's provided fans over the decades.
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one of my favourites
Banger Sisters is one of my favourite films and has 2 of my favourite actresses in it. A "must see".. Especially for when you're cuddled up on the sofa. A fun film for all..
Published 2 months ago by rks59
A look at relationships with a laugh or two thrown in
Suzette (Hawn) is an ageing rock chick. Vinny/La Vinnia (Sarandon) was her best friend when they were young and wild. Read more
Published on 28 April 2005 by Francisco
More films like this pls
I really like this film, as well as being a fun, uplifting and free spirited movie..
it had a deep message behind the story of forgotten friendship,
the importance of... Read more
it had a deep message behind the story of forgotten friendship,
the importance of... Read more
Published on 29 July 2004 by "think4_urself"
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This DVD is OK if you like the style of boring romance, rather than comedy. There are a few attempts at jokes but they generally aren't funny. Read more
Published on 12 Jan 2004
Really brilliant film, buy it!
The Banger Sisters is a great film, totally funny with great performances from Goldie Hawn, Susan Sarandon and Geoffrey Rush! Great story and great characters, what more can I say? Read more
Published on 12 Aug 2003 by Natalie
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