Wednesday, 4 June 2014

No flashes of entertainment

The Hot Flashes (2013)

Directed by Susan Seidelman this film stars Brooke Shields, Daryl Hannah, Virginia Madsen, Wanda Sykes and Camryn Manheim. Middle aged women get together a basketball team to play the current girls State high school team for charity.

There will be few surprises in this film as it follows the basic plot of many a sports film and really has little to offer in terms of originality in any area. The writing is fairly weak, there is little character progression and the story is far too pedestrian to explore any themes at all. No doubt there is plenty to be said about the experience of middle age from a female perspective but this film is not the one to do it.


2/5

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