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

Bette Midler is brilliantly vibrant and vivacious as the ultimate showbiz mother Mama Rose Hovick, in Emile Ardolino’s 1993 film remake of the all-time great Jule Styne – Stephen Sondheim musical Gypsy. The ideally cast […]

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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