Product Details

• Actors: Hilary Duff, Haylie Duff, Anjelica Huston, Maria Conchita Alonso, Brent Spiner
• Directors: Martha Coolidge
• Writers: Amy Rardin, Jessica O'Toole, John Quaintance
• Producers: Austen Tayler, Brent Emery, David Faigenblum, Eve LaDue
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Dubbed: French, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
• DVD Release Date: December 12, 2006
• Run Time: 98 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000JFY05W
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #120,281 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• Learn more about "Material Girls" on IMDb

Editorial Reviews

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Glamour girls Hilary and Haylie Duff (featured in Lizzie McGuire and 7th Heaven, respectively) star as cosmetic heiresses Ava and Tanzie Marchetta, whose lives get turned upside down when their deceased father's company is accused of selling toxic products. Wouldn't you know it, Ava and Tanzie decide to go all Erin Brockovich and investigate. Material Girls should be awful--but it isn't. It's not a great film, it may not even be a good film, but it's more watchable than it has any right to be, thanks to the confident and thoughtful guiding hand of director Martha Coolidge (Rambling Rose, Valley Girl). It's hard to say exactly how a director can keep something like Material Girls from being as insipid as, say, New York Minute. Coolidge injects some hint of awareness of what it actually means to be poor, casts some surprising actors (like Anjelica Huston, Prizzi's Honor; Brent Spiner, Star Trek: The Next Generation; and Lukas Haas, Brick), and somehow makes the Marchetta sisters both vapid and sympathetic--all of which is some impressive cinematic alchemy. The result is the most enjoyable film of Hilary Duff's career. --Bret Fetzer

Product Description

Sisters Tanzie and Ava (Hilary and Haylie Duff) have it all ? designer clothes to wear, hunky guys to date and millions of dollars to spend. Their life has been one big party since inheriting their dad's cosmetics company... but the party ends when a product scandal leaves the celebutantes without a penny to their name. It's a hilarious riches-to-rags tale as the girls go from maximum fun to minimum wage. Co-starring Anjelica Huston and Lukas Haas, MATERIAL GIRLS proves that laughter is always in fashion.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 23 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars So Psyched! October 11, 2006

By Kristin Wilson

Format:DVD

I am so happy to finally know a release date for this! I went and saw the movie on opening weekend, I was able to talk my dad into going, which was cool because we used to have a tradition of going to the movies before school started, but we hadn't gone in so long, and actually, most of the movies I like are movies I would not feel comfortable seeing with my dad. This is a family friendly movie, and I think anyone with an open mind would enjoy it. I loved it, I am a 23 year old Hilary Duff fan, and proud, but even my dad enjoyed the movie, then again he always preferred "clean" movies to some of the more mainstream inappropriate films. This movie will definitely be in my collection, and when I have kids I will very comfortably watch it with them.

Overall, great movie, funny, inspiring.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars A good effort but.... March 24, 2007

By Barbara L. Morris

Format:DVD

3 stars for effort.

This ALMOST was a good movie. I thought for sure it would be good because usually riches to rags stories are. (Just my luck" was cute, I thought.)

This went nowhere, then DIED in the middle.

Although the IDEA was good, the story flopped, and this is why.

Whoever edited it did a bad job. It was choppy, and a lot of it seemed FORCED.Certain scenes seemed totally out of synch.

ALSO, It was more Haylie's debut film, and Hillary was sort of just thrown in there...and truth is, I really don't care for Haylie Duff.

But all stars try getting thier sisters in, I guess.

Britney did it with Jamie Lynn, Lindsay Lohan is trying to get her sis Ali in, and so on...

Anyway, had there been better editing, and the focus wasn't so much on Haylie, it could have been a good movie. The IDEA was good, but that is where it ended.

Maybe worth a rental but not a buy.

13 of 17 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Good but suffers from the writing August 21, 2006

By City Dweller 5

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These two girls work so hard and are very talented and this film has it's charm, it's not a bad film, but the writing is a bit weak. That said, the girls perform well given what they had to work with. I think that both Duffs are in the situation of being quite talented but in search of a worthy and well written script as young adults.They are not the only actors in such a situation unfortunately, the fact that Hollywood has many years where the overall movie making lacks great quality does not help.

I saw it this weekend and I'd say am glad I did. It was really nice to see Haylie at work. The performance from both Duff's was good in spite of the writing. It can also be said that the film shows off both girls physical beauty more so than previous projects.I ,sadly, cannot say that I've ever met Haylie but I have seen Hilary close up in person and she really is as beautiful as she looks in pictures. This film captures more of that.

I understand who the target audience for this is and even fans who are from the broader spectrum should see it and not judge it harshly. It's charming and I'd buy the dvd. They really wanted to work together on a project and I applaud that and hope they get the chance to do so again with a better script.