- Starring: Brooke Shields, Camryn Manheim, Daryl Hannah, Eric Roberts, Virginia Madsen, Wanda Sykes
- Summary: An unlikely basketball team of unappreciated middle-aged Texas women, all former high school champs, challenge the current arrogant high school state champs to a series of games to raise money for breast cancer prevention.
- Director: Susan Seidelman
- Genre(s): Comedy
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 12
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Mixed: 7 out of 12
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Negative: 4 out of 12
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63This comedy deserves credit for taking a decided viewpoint — and delivering a heartfelt if occasionally misguided message.
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50Lifetime movies have their pleasures, and so does this film. Chief among them is the cast, a group of over-45 actresses who really are better than ever; in the cases of Brooke Shields and Daryl Hannah, remarkably better.
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50In critical ways, the movie is a mess. The basketball scenes are so sloppy and haphazard that the would-be slapstick registers as confusion. But away from the court, the actors bring their caricatures to folksy comic life.
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40The raunchy, feminist-revenge jokes are the best part of this feel-good, you-go-ladies sports comedy.
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40What could have been an empowering and amusing riff on the typically male underdog genre is mostly charmless.
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38Hot Flashes don’t generate much heat — comical or otherwise. A pity, since that rare menopause comedy is a terrible thing to waste.
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20Under the direction of Susan Seidelman—who first focused on a lost woman with identity issues in 1985’s Desperately Seeking Susan—the leads in The Hot Flashes come across as one-dimensional, pseudo-feminist clichés whose conversations seem contrived and whose jokes land with the thud of airballs clunking on hardwood.
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