These Old Broads (2001) (TV)

User Rating:

5.1/10   

Director:

Matthew Diamond

Writers (WGA):

Carrie Fisher (written by) &
Elaine Pope (written by)

Release Date:

12 February 2001 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

They swore they'd never work together again - their shocking reunion - still throwing tantrums, still stealing headlines, still making producers cry!

Plot:

After a re-release of their 60's film hit "Boy Crazy" becomes a smash, three actresses (Piper Grayson...

Plot Keywords:

Reunion | Behind The Scenes | Old Woman | Showbiz | Irreverence

Cast

Shirley MacLaine	...	Kate Westbourne
Debbie Reynolds	...	Piper Grayson
Joan Collins	...	Addie Holden
Elizabeth Taylor	...	Beryl Mason
Jonathan Silverman	...	Wesley Westbourne
Nestor Carbonell	...	Gavin
Peter Graves	...	Bill
Carlos Jacott
Pat Crawford Brown	...	Miriam Hodges (Addie's Mother)
Suzanne Carney	...	Connie
Heath Hyche	...	Ben
Gene Barry	...	Mr. Stern
Pat Harrington Jr.	...	Tony (as Pat Harrington)
Hinton Battle	...	Pete
Betty Carvalho	...	Rosa

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

American Broadcasting Company (ABC)

Trivia:

This movie, written by Carrie Fisher, contains one actress who is Fisher's mother (Debbie Reynolds), one who is her ex-stepmother (Elizabeth Taylor) and one (Shirley Maclaine) who played the mother of a character based upon her in Postcards From he Edge (also written by Fisher).

Quotes:

Addie Holden: The man died literally on top of me.
Piper Grayson: Isn't it what most men want - to die in the saddle?
Addie Holden: It is not that great for the saddle.

Movie Connections:

References "The Munsters" (1964)

Wonderfully funny

I have never seen Elizabeth Taylor, Debbie Reynolds, or Joan Collins act in their prime, and what drew me to this movie was the fact that all of the old stars were in it. I have seen Shirley MacLaine act, and I was pretty much hoping that they didn't give her a dopey motherly part in which she's too eccentric and snotty. Let me just say one thing about that, they gave her a motherly part in which she's eccentric. A little on the snotty part, yes, but she's definitely not dopey. Shirley plays Kate Westbourne, a mother of "documentary" producer Weslie Westbourne. Kate was once in a show with two other women, Piper and Addie, and now finds herself realizing on what she really missed with her son. Addie (COLLINS) is a real sex-maniac whom slept with basically EVERYBODY and has a run-away jail-bird for a boyfriend. What makes Addie so funny is her "tummy tucks" and "face lifts". She still thinks that she's twenty-five. ("Look dear, one more face lift and she'll be able to blow her nose through her forehead.) Piper is the good-two-shoes ditzy blonde whom everyone loves. Debbie plays this part perfectly and is so cute at it. Piper and her husband Bill have a hotel. The nice thing about this woman is that she raised four children and unlike her 'peers' has a decent life. The truly funny thing about this movie is not only in the cast, but in the writing as well. Carrie Fisher was FANTASTIC. She wrote the script so that it had that wring of adultness to it but didn't stray from reality. As a fan of old movies, I was grateful to see one more "dance in the limelight" for the old broads. They deserved it. :)