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Dir: Martha Coolidge. Cast: Hilary Duff, Haylie Duff, Anjelica Huston, Maria Conchita Alonso, Brent Spiner, Lukas Haas

 

Description: Hilary and Haylie Duff get a very minor comeuppance in this lame comedy. They play spoilt heiresses who become slightly less rich, then regain their fortune.

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Hilary is a duff in the acting stakes

By Derek Malcolm, Evening Standard  01.03.07
 
Material Girls

Stinker of a film: Hilary Duff in Material Girls

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Material Girls is timed to be released shortly before Hilary Duff 's new scent is placed on the market.

One can only hope that the fragrance is less of a stinker than this awful movie.

The Duff sisters (Hilary and Haylie) play the Marchetta sisters, the rich and terminally silly "faces" of Marchetta Cosmetics.

Their father started the firm and watched it grow and grow - but now he's dead, things are not going so well.

When a story breaks that one of their products is a hazard to the skin, the sisters have to cut up their credit cards and behave roughly like normal people.

They find this tough but, with the help of Marcus Columa's research chemist and a handsome legal aid attorney (Lukas Haas), they fight their corner.

Martha Coolidge, whose 1991 film Rambling Rose proclaimed a real talent, directs by numbers here, and the Duff sisters are duffers in the acting stakes.

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