Material Girls (2006) on Netflix
PG20061h 38mComedyFamilyRomance
Tanzie and Ava Marchetta are heiresses to a cosmetics fortune and pay their late father's company no attention. A scandal over a night cream wrecks the firm's reputation and their wealth.
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- IMDb4.0/1023,305 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes4%
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Plot summary
Tanzie and Ava Marchetta are the daughters of Victor Marchetta, founder of a cosmetics empire, and they let the family friend who helps run it, Tommy Katzenbach, handle everything while they shop and plan Ava's engagement to the actor Mick. A scandal over the company's night cream destroys its stock and the family name, their credit cards are blocked, and the sisters move into the small apartment of Inez, their former cleaning lady. With thirty days left before the stockholders vote on selling Marchetta Cosmetics to the rival Fabiella, the sisters want their father's reputation restored. The company's lab technician, Rick, and the legal clinic lawyer Henry Baines offer help.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Material Girls (2006)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- For the soundtrack Hilary Duff recorded two new songs: "Happy", then an early version of "Play with Fire", and a cover of the Madonna song "Material Girl" performed with Haylie Duff, which was the inspiration for the film's story and plays at the beginning of the film.
- On 31 March 2006 the entertainment site AndPop.com reported that Lukas Haas had said he did not expect the film to be released; the statements were confirmed on 5 April in The Ryersonian, with Haas saying they had been trying to sell the film for a long time with little success.
- Hilary and Haylie Duff's performances were panned by critics and earned both of them Razzie Award nominations, for Worst Actress and Worst Screen Couple.
- The teen comedy is loosely based on Jane Austen's 1811 novel Sense and Sensibility, moving the setting to modern Los Angeles, and was directed by Martha Coolidge.
