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THE BANGER SISTERS Send This Review to a Friend
Goldie Hawn and Susan Sarandon are putting on quite a show in "The Banger Sisters," and they're reason enough for seeing this buddy comedy. Geoffrey Rush adds another dimension in a very funny role.
The title comes from the days when the gals were groupies banging every rock star they could. But times marches on. At least it has for Lavinia (Sarandon) now a mother, the wife of a well-healed Phoenix lawyer and the model of luxurious respectability. Suzette (Hawn) on the other hand is stuck in a time warp. She's still a hippie at heart, and when she's down and out, she heads off to see her old pal, who is embarrassed by the threat to her stability.
Along the way Suzette gives a lift to Rush as the personification of uptightness and a nutty guy who shuns sex to the point of even having trouble being touched. Suzette has ways of taking care of that problem. We know that the sparks of friendship between Suzette and Lavinia will be rekindled as Lavinia needs to be liberated and some of the need for stability must rub off on Suzette as she unmasks the problems going on behind Lavinia's peaceful façade.
Under Bob Dolman's direction the film marches toward its inevitable cutesy developments, but Hawn and Sarandon are so good, as is Rush, that "The Banger Sisters" is generally fun to watch. A Fox Searchlight Pictures release.
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