The First Wives Club(1996)

Name: The First Wives Club
Director: Hugh Wilson
Genre: Comedy
Released: Sep 20, 1996
Cast: Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler, Diane Keaton, Maggie Smith, Sarah Jessica Parker

Paramount Pictures

PG
1h 43m
- Comedy

Release Date: Sep 20, 1996

21%
54%
A-
6.5

Reunited by the death of a college friend, three divorced women seek revenge on the husbands who left them for younger women.

Release Details

Original Release | Sep 20, 1996

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Director & Top Cast

Hugh Wilson
Director

Goldie Hawn
Actor

Bette Midler
Brenda Morelli Cushman

Diane Keaton
Actor

Maggie Smith
Actor

Sarah Jessica Parker
Actor

Dan Hedaya

Actor

Stockard Channing

Actor

Victor Garber

Actor

Stephen Collins

Actor

Elizabeth Berkley

Actor

Marcia Gay Harden

Actor

Bronson Pinchot

Actor

Jennifer Dundas

Actor

Eileen Heckart

Actor

Philip Bosco

Actor

Rob Reiner

Actor

James Naughton

Actor

Technical Specifications

Sound Mix: Dolby Digital,DTS,SDDS

Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: United States

Language: English,Italian,French

Summaries

Storyline

After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three wives have been dumped for newer, curvier models. But the trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts, in the wallet. Sit back and watch the sparks fly as The Wives get mad, get even, and get it all. Justice has seldom been so sweet. Or so much fun. Reunited after nearly three long decades at their friend's funeral, the once-close-knit team of college friends--the Oscar-winning actress, Elise; the mouthy, Brenda, and the quiet housewife, Annie--realise that they have much more in common than their age. Betrayed and divorced by their treacherous husbands for trophy mistresses, the wronged women finally summon up the courage to take matters into their own hands, to avenge themselves, and give them a dose of their own medicine. Now, the exes are hell-bent on getting even. Do their former men stand a chance against the First-Wives Club? — Nick Riganas Now in middle age, Elise Eliot, Brenda Cushman née Morelli, Annie Paradis née MacDuggan, and Cynthia Griffin née Swann were the closest of friends in college twenty-five years ago, but they drifted apart after college in their differences. Elise is a youth obsessed famous actress. Brenda is brash and straight talking. Annie is a doormat of a woman who has never taken a decisive action in her life. And Cynthia is the proverbial glue in guiding the other three. Elise, Brenda and Annie are reunited at Cynthia's funeral, she who committed suicide upon the marriage of her ex-husband Gil Griffin to who was his much younger mistress. In reuniting, the three women come to various degrees of realization that they are much like each other and much like Cynthia: each is at a different stage of her marriage dissolving - Brenda and her discount retail mogul husband Morty Cushman have already divorced, Elise and her movie producer husband Bill Atchison are in the middle of a contentious divorce with Bill requesting alimony, and Annie and her husband Aaron Paradis, a partner in a successful ad firm, are separated, although Annie goes running back to Aaron for sex anytime he asks in her anticipation that they will get back together - and that each wife was the catalyst for her respective husband's financial success. But it isn't until each woman receives a final letter of that guidance from Cynthia and that they all finally discover that there is a younger woman now in her husband's life that the three, with the help of supporters, decide to join forces to get revenge on their husbands. The questions become if they can find a way to get back at each of the three where it will really hurt them, and if they themselves can overcome their own differences to accomplish this goal. — Huggo