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  • 1993
  • R
  • Columbia TriStar Home Video
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 1993
  • R
  • Columbia TriStar Home Video
  • 1 h 42 m

Summary Seven women friends—including a nun in crisis, an angry divorcee, and an unfiltered, sexually-charged artist—gather in the Colorado Rockies at the upscale vacation home of Val (Jill Eikenberry), to celebrate the surprise 40th birthday of popular film critic Natalie (JoBeth Williams). When Val's offbeat younger sister (Ally Sheedy) arrive...

Written By: Gisela Bernice

  • 1993
  • R
  • Columbia TriStar Home Video
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 1993
  • R
  • Columbia TriStar Home Video
  • 1 h 42 m

Chantilly Lace

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Summary Seven women friends—including a nun in crisis, an angry divorcee, and an unfiltered, sexually-charged artist—gather in the Colorado Rockies at the upscale vacation home of Val (Jill Eikenberry), to celebrate the surprise 40th birthday of popular film critic Natalie (JoBeth Williams). When Val's offbeat younger sister (Ally Sheedy) arrive...

Written By: Gisela Bernice

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An amiable, middle-brow entertainment, Chantilly Lace provides a knowing, bittersweet look at the complex lives of modern American women.
By Emanuel Levy FULL REVIEW
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The result is an unusual movie about acceptance, tolerance, support, sex and fun among a group of longtime female friends who meet for three weekends within a year. Women viewers are not likely to be surprised by their conversation; men may be.
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Given a wealth of acting talent and the freedom to improvise its way past the cliches that hobble so many films by and about women, Chantilly Lace ends up a cliche anyway: a manipulative tearjerker.
By Ken Tucker FULL REVIEW
50
The improv is convincing enough, and the actresses strong and loose enough, that you may really feel like you’re eavesdropping on actual conversation. And that’s intoxicating, in spots. But the chat grows so self-consciously therapeutic in this see-through “Lace” that most voyeurs will want to go peep in another TV window well before the sex talk turns to taxing teariness.
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It is a quirky, ambitious, praiseworthy project that somehow becomes a victim of all the cliches it was invented to avoid.
By Caryn James FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Showtime Networks
Release Date Jul 18, 1993
Duration 1 h 42 m
Rating R
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