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Hey Girlfriends! Can We Talk?!
Date of Review: Aug 12, 2003
The Bottom Line: I recommend Live Nude Girls. The acting and directing are superb. The dialogue is very contemporary and timeless for the most part.
Live Nude Girls (the title is a misnomer) is the story of five childhood friends, who are all grown-up now and decide to get together for one of the friend's bachelorette party.
A subplot involves one of the women named Georgina (Lora Zane) who is a lesbian that's in a relationship, but she has a crush on her male sous chef at the restaurant she owns.
The bachelorette party is at Georgina's house, where the women get together for eating lots of junk food, drinking, and girl chat. The bride-to-be, named Jamie (Kim Cattrall), is upset because her fiance is going to have a stripper at his bachelor party. Thus begins the chatting that goes on and on and on and on....but fortunately not ad nauseam.
They discuss sex, marriage, sex, clothes, sex, past experiences, sex, male celebrities, and sex.
The conversations are quite graphic and the scenes/dialogue might make some people uncomfortable, but it's very realistic.
As the night goes on, they drink, get looser tongues, and begin bruiting secrets.
The evening is filled with love, laughter, hate, jealousy, tears, problems, and revelations--girlie style. Unfortunately, much of the issues brought up amongst them go unresolved.
The director, Julianna Lavin, has a cameo role playing a fighting neighbor.
It's a nice film for a bunch of close female friends to come together and watch. But the subplot about Georgina questioning her sexuality and a stereotyped gay scene shows ignorant parts of the script. Notwithstanding, the film is worth watching; the rest of the script is brilliant and timeless. The female cast acting is superb and realistic, and you care about them.
These are women worth getting to know.
