I'm a big Hawn and Sarandon fan but this movie was a mistake for both of them. It's just got nothing going for it. The acting isn't particularly bad, it's just not that that special, the performances realty aren't memorable. The script is lazily written, I was so immensely disappointed that it was so lazy because this film had so much potential to be a fun, entertaining film that really worked. But I'm sorry to say that the potential the film had was wasted big time. The characters are boring and there isn't nearly enough time devoted to developing them well so that we can feel more about them. The film also has little to no chemistry between the characters, it just doesn't work. The dialogue is weak and unimportant all throughout the film. I really wanted this film to be a funny, sweet, entertaining movie exploring the wild friendship between Sarandon and Hawn. The movie just doesn't do a very good job at accomplishing that. It explores it to do a degree, but lazily. The one single scene I liked in the entire movie was when the two were looking at old photos and reminiscing. That was the one scene that worked, nothing else. 2/10 for The Banger Sisters. I wanted to like it but it was just so bad.

This 2002 movie was obviously an attempt to appeal to a neglected cinema demographic of middle-aged women, so it stars 56 year old Goldie Hawn as Suzette and 55 year old Susan Sarandon as Lavinia who are not in fact relatives but former sister-in-arms during an early sex-fueled period when they were 'banged' by a lot of rock stars (resulting in a collection of photos of 'rock cocks') and even a few roadies. One of them is still the free-spirited, laid back (sorry for the pun) soul of yester years while the other is now an upright and uptight married woman with two daughters. No prizes for guessing which (1). One of them succeeds in changing the other to embrace her view of life. No prizes for guessing which (2). This is a weak attempt at comedy that risks trivialising the consequences of casual sex.

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.

In Los Angeles, when the bartender Suzette (Goldie Hawn) is fired from the club where she works, she decides to travel to Phoenix and visit her friend and also former groupie of twenty years ago Vinnie (Susan Sarandon) to borrow some money. While on the road, she runs out of gas and without any money, she accepts to bring the stressed loser writer Harry Plummer (Geoffrey Rush) and in return he would pay for the gasoline. When she meets her old friend, now Mrs. Lavinia Kingsley, she finds a very conservative and traditional housewife, married with the successful lawyer Raymond Kingsley (Robin Thomas) and mother of two complicated teenagers, Hanna and Ginger. Their interaction along a few days improves their lives."The Banger Sisters" has a good premise, that some people never change while others repress their feelings, but it is badly executed. The idea of how people change their behavior when raise a family could be deeply developed based on the past of the two "banger sisters", but the way the forgotten and unknown past of Vinnie is disclosed to her family is absolute shallow and without any purpose. I believe Bob Dolman was lazy or afraid to shift to a profound drama, and preferred the easiest and most superficial way to make the confrontation between two exaggerated sides: the one who lives in the past and the other that does not use her experience to improve her relationship with her daughters and husband. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Doidas Demais" ("Too Crazies")