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.

Ever since "Blow", there hasn't been a single movie that has brought me that strange, familiar 70's and 80's nostalgia feeling. Well, this one does it even better!Towards the end (the graduation scene), the feeling did kinda of wear off, but in the driving through the desert scene, the movie returns to it's roots, leaving you with a warm feeling around your heart. The thing with "The Banger Sisters" is that you have to see it as the drama that it is, as well as the comedy.The soundtrack was incredible, filled with nostalgic songs that brought real authenticity to the movie. The cast was marvelous, Sarandon and the forever ditzy blond Goldie Hawn are a match made in heaven, both perfect as always. No matter what the critics and the other reviewers say, this film was a deep, emotional journey of self discovering, and, in my opinion, one of the most underrated movies of all time. One of the main things that this film shows us is that we can sometimes forget who we once were and what our wishes and plans for the future were, but that it's OK, as long as we have that special person who knew us before our lives turned out different than what we expected. With that person in our lives, we can never forget the good, old days.I laughed, I cried, I remembered... I loved it! Highly recommended!

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

Ageing but still cute rock chick Suzette (Goldie Hawn – looking worryingly hot for a woman approaching 60) gets an attack of nostalgia when she loses her job from the bar at which she has worked for twenty-odd years and gets a hankering to see her old friend, Vinnie (Susan Sarandon). Back in the 60s/70s, Suzette and Vinnie were the Banger Sisters, groupies supreme, bedding any rock star they came across and taking photos of each conquest's proud member (the sisters are based on a pair of real-life groupies known as the Plaster-casters – figure it out). On the road to Phoenix, Suzette picks up Harry Plummer (Geoffrey Rush), a disturbed failed writer who is planning to shoot his father. Once in Phoenix, Suzette discovers that Vinnie, now known as Lavinia, has moved on with her life, and is now the staid wife of a man with political ambitions, and mother to two less than perfect teenage daughters.The Banger Sisters is actually two stories combined into one. First there is Suzette's story and that of her relationship with the severely repressed Harry Plummer, and then there is the main theme of the film, which is the relationship between the 'sisters' and what it says about being true to one's real nature. It looks at one point, in the first scene that all three principals share, as if writer/director Bob Dolman is going to find a way to combine these two stories into one theme, but he fails to do so and, for the rest of the movie, the separate strands impose on each other like neighbours borrowing sugar. Hawn is the constant in both tales. Thankfully, she has enough presence to fulfil her role, but the chemistry she develops with Sarandon far outshines anything she achieves with Rush. This is a shame, because it is this side of the story that is the more interesting and less touched with the dreaded sentimentality that pervades the majority of American comedies. Rush's is a character more in need of salvation than Sarandon's who – let's face it – is leading the same kind of life as 90% of middle-class wives – and is definitely in need of more screen time to obtain that salvation convincingly. Sarandon's transformation, too, is too sudden: one minute she's having conniptions at having discovered her daughter having sex in the family pool, the next she's swigging wine from the bottle and smoking a joint.The Banger Sisters, then, is a formulaic movie – ironic, considering its message is to refuse to be bound by formula – which is only partially redeemed by the solid performances from its talented cast, of whom Hawn is by far the best. She looks closer to forty than sixty – although you won't find too many close-ups of her these days – and still manages to portray cute and perky without becoming embarrassing. The interplay between her and Rush is enjoyable, but could have been much better given the potential of their character's situation, and Rush, you suspect, is never in any doubt that his role is intended merely as a foil for Miss Hawn's.Movies like this never win any meaningful rewards, but then they never set out to. This one will win itself a place on the DVD shelves of a certain kind of viewer, the type who never tires of fuzzy soft-focus pleas to be true to oneself and who seeks no other deeper meaning in their movies. All others should gain at least some enjoyment from the scenario before it succumbs to genre stereotype in order to wrap things nicely in its relatively short running time.