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Material Girls

Play trailer Poster for Material Girls PG Released Aug 18, 2006 1h 37m Comedy Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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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.
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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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Jane Boursaw Common Sense Media A brain-numbing, fluffy flick for tweens. Rated: 2/5 Jan 1, 2011 Full Review Read all reviews

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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 Full Review Steve D Really bad update that does nothing remotely as well as the original. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 10/05/23 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Audience Member Not a good movie to watch Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews
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Martha Coolidge

Director

Hilary Duff

Tanzie Marchetta

Haylie Duff

Ava Marchetta

Anjelica Huston

Fabiella

Brent Spiner

Tommy

Lukas Haas

Henry

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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