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Hilary is a duff in the acting stakes
By
Derek Malcolm
1 Mar 2007
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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