Material girls
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Material girls |
| Original title | Material girls |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Martha Coolidge |
| script |
John Quaintance , Jessica O'Toole , Amy Rardin |
| production |
David Faigenblum , Ronald Colby , Milton Kim , Eve LaDue , Hilary Duff , Haylie Duff |
| music | Jennie Muskett |
| camera | Johnny E. Jensen |
| cut | Steven Cohen |
| occupation | |
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Material Girls is an American youth comedy released in 2006 . The main actresses are the actresses Hilary and Haylie Duff . The screenplay was written by John Quaintance and directed by Martha Coolidge .
action
In Material Girls is about the sisters Ava and Tanzie Marchetta, who are the heirs of a cosmetics line. But after her father, the head and owner of the company, dies, the two spoiled girls have to take over management together with the managing director. When scandals suddenly arise about the company, it threatens to go bankrupt. Ava and Tanzie now have to prove that these stories are not true. For the girls it is also about asserting themselves in the world without money. In the end it turns out that her father's former best friend and the current managing director Tommy Katzenbacher is responsible for the scandals of the Marchetta cosmetics line.
Reviews
"Lightweight entertainment as a comedy vehicle for the acting Duff sisters, which addresses the supposed needs of the young target audience, but denies them any degree of maturity and social insight."
Trivia
- The film was written for the Olsen twins .
- Material Girls was the Duff sisters' first appearance together.
- Henry's cat was named after Clarence Darrow , who was John Thomas Scopes' attorney in the Scopes trial .
- Tanzie breaks into the office of the new managing director (father's former friend) to find out the truth. She resembles Erin Brockovich (played by Julia Roberts ), from the movie Erin Brockovich , in clothes and make-up.
production
The film is a co-production by Maverick Films , Rafter H Entertainment and Patriot Pictures . The film production began on April 18, 2005 and the shooting ended on August 4, 2005. On March 31, 2006 Lukas Haas announced that no distribution company could be found for the film. Six days later, on April 6th, Box Office Mojo announced on its website that MGM had bought the rights to the film and had it shown in 1,500 cinemas.
On the opening weekend, the film grossed over $ 4 million in the US and only slightly over $ 11 million by October 22, 2006.
Publications
The film opened on August 18, 2006 in US cinemas. The film also ran on September 14, 2006 in Australia, October 20 in Iceland, November 9 in Singapore, December 4 in Thailand and December 15 in Mexico. The film was released directly on DVD in the Netherlands on February 20, 2007, as well as in Hungary (April 17), Poland (April 19) and Germany (April 26, 2007). Also appeared Material Girls in Spain (21 November 2007) and Argentina (6 August 2008) now on DVD.
Web links
- Material Girls in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Material Girls at rotten tomatoes (English)
- official homepage
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Material Girls . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2007 (PDF; test number: 109 508 DVD).
- ↑ Material Girls. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 2, 2017 .