Material Girls

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Material Girls

PG

Released Aug 18, 2006

1h 37m

Comedy

Drama

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Two sibling cosmetics heiresses (Hilary Duff, Haylie Duff) must grow up quickly when a company scandal leaves them penniless. Though it is tempting to follow the advice of their board of directors and sell out to their biggest competitor, the gals decide to take matters into their own hands and save the company that their father built from scratch.

Critics Consensus

Plagued by paper-thin characterizations and a hackneyed script, Material Girls fails to live up to even the minimum standards of its genre.

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Jake Wilson

The Age (Australia)

Lessons about social responsibility are submerged in a bubble bath of innocent glamour; Amy Heckerling's Clueless looks like a mordant social satire by comparison.

Rated: 1.5/5

Aug 4, 2014

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

Under the circumstances, Anjelica Huston and Lukas Haas manage not to embarrass themselves, but only because they're pretending to be in a different movie.

Mar 7, 2007

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

The film's sole purpose is to promote, with chilling lack of irony, Hilary Duff's own brand of perfume -- oh, and there's her single as well.

Mar 3, 2007

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John Ferguson

Radio Times

Even Anjelica Huston as a rival cosmetics magnate struggles to inject any venom into the proceedings.

Rated: 2/5

Aug 4, 2014

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Rafe Telsch

CinemaBlend

Welcome to adulthood, Hillary and Haylie Duff. Here are your T-Mobile Sidekicks and Tabloid news stories. Leave your personalities at the door.

Rated: 1.5/5

Aug 4, 2014

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Jane Boursaw

Common Sense Media

A brain-numbing, fluffy flick for tweens.

Rated: 2/5

Jan 1, 2011

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Te O

I thought it was a decent silly movie, not meant to be taken too seriously.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

11/09/24

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Steve D

Really bad update that does nothing remotely as well as the original.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

10/05/23

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Audience Member

Seemingly another of those vanity projects whereas the story isn't primary nor secondary focus, only the leading stars define what the film is, and their charm fails against their thin communicative storytelling which turned out blandly empty with zero interests to the point it would be surprising if its target audience actually find some sort of enjoyment. (D)

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/17/23

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Audience Member

Hilary and Haylie Duff go on a hunt to find the truth to their company of beauty. The characters the Duff girls play are rich socialites to bid poor and brings out the best in them with becoming closer to the people in the lower class to them when they were rich socialites and belonging to a new world they did not grow up in.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/20/23

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Audience Member

Not a good movie to watch

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/18/23

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Audience Member

Even the gr8 director Martha Coolidge (Valley Girl) can't save this hot mess

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Tanzie Marchetta

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Synopsis

Two sibling cosmetics heiresses (Hilary Duff, Haylie Duff) must grow up quickly when a company scandal leaves them penniless. Though it is tempting to follow the advice of their board of directors and sell out to their biggest competitor, the gals decide to take matters into their own hands and save the company that their father built from scratch.

Director: Martha Coolidge
Producer: Susan Duff, David Faigenblum, Milton Kim, Mark Morgan
Screenwriter: John Quaintance, Jessica O'Toole, Amy Rardin
Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production Co: Maverick Films
Rating: PG (Rude Humor|Language)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 18, 2006, Wide
Release Date (DVD): Feb 5, 2008
Box Office (Gross USA): $11.4M
Runtime: 1h 37m