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Wonderful character development!

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Is there anyone out there who wants to see Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor sit down, hold hands, and argue about sex and a man Taylor's character stole from Reynolds's character decades ago? How about hearing Shirley MacLaine say, "My inner child is having such a tantrum" while wearing a turban and waving incense in front of her face? These Old Broads was co-written and co-produced by Carrie Fisher, as yet another hate letter to her mother. Apparently, she didn't get it all out of her system in Postcards From the Edge. In this one, her mother plays one of the title characters. Fisher had problems, problems she desperately wanted the world to know about via projecting her hatred for her mother up on the big screen. Why else would she create a movie about four old hags, all playing caricatures of their real-life personas, who hate each other and quip extremely stupid one-liners about their age, appearance, and sex lives? The only reason anyone would sit through this terrible, terrible movie would be if they were 100% on Debbie Reynolds's side during the Eddie Fisher scandal and still want revenge on Elizabeth Taylor, and if they get a thrill from making fun of older actresses. Basically, Carrie Fisher. Anyone one else will most likely, and wisely, turn it off.

If you're fed up to the back teeth with pretty young things with silicone enhanced breasts and un-enhanced talent, this is the movie for you! The team of Collins, Reynolds, and McClaine are a laugh riot in their roles as mature actresses with less-than mature mentalities, libidinous tendecies, and old grudges. And speaking of mature...well...let's just say that most of the humor is a bit too hot for children. (Especially when Collins' Mobster boyfriend...Nah, I'm not givin' it away!)

I have never seen Elizabeth Taylor, Debbie Reynolds, or Joan Collins act in their prime, and what drew me to this movie was the fact that all of the old stars were in it. I have seen Shirley MacLaine act, and I was pretty much hoping that they didn't give her a dopey motherly part in which she's too eccentric and snotty. Let me just say one thing about that, they gave her a motherly part in which she's eccentric. A little on the snotty part, yes, but she's definitely not dopey. Shirley plays Kate Westbourne, a mother of "documentary" producer Weslie Westbourne. Kate was once in a show with two other women, Piper and Addie, and now finds herself realizing on what she really missed with her son. Addie (COLLINS) is a real sex-maniac whom slept with basically EVERYBODY and has a run-away jail-bird for a boyfriend. What makes Addie so funny is her "tummy tucks" and "face lifts". She still thinks that she's twenty-five. ("Look dear, one more face lift and she'll be able to blow her nose through her forehead.) Piper is the good-two-shoes ditzy blonde whom everyone loves. Debbie plays this part perfectly and is so cute at it. Piper and her husband Bill have a hotel. The nice thing about this woman is that she raised four children and unlike her 'peers' has a decent life. The truly funny thing about this movie is not only in the cast, but in the writing as well. Carrie Fisher was FANTASTIC. She wrote the script so that it had that wring of adultness to it but didn't stray from reality. As a fan of old movies, I was grateful to see one more "dance in the limelight" for the old broads. They deserved it. :)

I believe that Carrie Fisher is a very talented writer, but you wouldn't know it by this fiasco. The script is full of off-color lines that probably would be funny if they were taken out of context, but strung along with a plot that is very predictable, it just doesn't work. There also are many feeble attempts at slapstick, which is another huge mistake. Everyone just tries to hard to be funny. Everything is forced and unnatural.Elizabeth Taylor (I think) attempts a Yiddish accent. Well, it's either Yiddish or a Brooklyn accent, I just simply couldn't tell. Seeing the fabulous Dame Elizabeth is this cheesy TV movie made me depressed. The memory of GIANT, CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF and VIRGINIA WOLF are still too fresh in my mind.Joan Collins, who has kept her beautiful figure, demonstrates that she is no natural comedian. But given a better script perhaps Joan could have done better. At least I like to think so.Shirley MacLaine, who still has somewhat of a career in movies left, should have passed on this one. Hopefully it won't damage her credibility being in this turkey.Of all the women, Debbie Reynolds comes off the best. The few times I had a chuckle was because of her. But then again, Debbie has made movies like this before so it wasn't much of a shock seeing her outrageous antics. It was reported that right before production began, June Allyson, who was to portray Joan Collins' mother, backed out without explanation. I have a funny feeling June read the script.