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Gypsy **** (1993, Bette Midler, Peter Riegert, Cynthia Gibb, Ed Asner) – Classic Movie Review 3556

The ideally cast Bette Midler, caught at about the right age of 47, is brilliantly vibrant and vivacious as the ultimate showbiz mother Mama Rose Hovick in producer-director Emile Ardolino’s 1993 welcome remake of all-time […]

Apr, 12

Hocus Pocus *** (1993, Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, Omri Katz, Thora Birch, Vinessa Shaw) – Classic Movie Review 1840

Director Kenny Ortega’s 1993 movie Hocus Pocus is an amusing, high-spirited Halloween fantasy comedy from the Walt Disney studio. Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy give engaging turns as three witch sisters hanged in […]

Nov, 13

The First Wives Club ***½ (1996, Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton) – Classic Movie Review 1435

Bette Midler (as Brenda Cushman), Goldie Hawn (as Elise Elliot) and Diane Keaton (as Annie Paradis) star as middle-agers plotting revenge after being dumped and divorced by their hubbies in favour of younger wives in director Hugh Wilson’s […]

Jul, 16

Fantasia 2000 **** (Disney Animation Studio) – Classic Movie Review 1251

Roy E. Disney, the nephew of Walt, co-produced Fantasia 2000, which entered production in 1990, was released in 1999 and features seven new segments performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with conductor James Levine. There’s lots […]

May, 25

What Women Want (2000, Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt) Classic Film Review 1140

Director Nancy Myers’s 2000 romcom stars Mel Gibson as Nick Marshall, a womanising Chicago advertising executive who gains the ability to hear the thoughts of the fairer sex after a freak accident, when a woman, Darcy […]

Apr, 23

That Old Feeling **** (1997, Bette Midler, Dennis Farina, Paula Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 765

The advertising line tell the whole story: ‘It was the perfect wedding except for two things …the bride’s parents.’ Director Carl Reiner’s fun 1997 movie stars Bette Midler and Dennis Farina as feuding former married […]

Jan, 28

Isn’t She Great **** (2000, Bette Midler, Nathan Lane, Stockard Channing) – Classic Movie Review 764

An ideally cast Bette Midler has a field day as real-life failed actress Jacqueline Susann, who turns herself into the queen of the trashy bestsellers after becoming the world-famous writer of The Valley of the […]

Jan, 28

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