Material Girls

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For the Madonna song, see Material Girl.
Material Girls
Image:Material Girls Official Poster.jpg
Official poster for Material Girls
Directed by Martha Coolidge
Produced by Milton Kim, Tim Wesley, Mark Morgan, Guy Oseary, Hilary Duff[1], Susan Duff, Eva LaDue, David Faigenblum
Written by John Quaintance, Jessica O'Toole, Amy Rardin
Starring Hilary Duff
Haylie Duff
Anjelica Huston
Brent Spiner
Lukas Haas
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s) August 18 2006 (U.S.)
March 2 2007 (UK)
Running time 97 mins
Language English
IMDb profile

Material Girls is a satirical teen comedy film starring Hilary Duff and Haylie Duff. It is based on a script written by John Quaintance and is directed by Martha Coolidge, and it also stars Anjelica Huston, Lukas Haas, and Brent Spiner. It is co-produced by Patriot Pictures and Madonna's film production company, Maverick Films.


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[edit] Plot

The plot centers around Marchetta sisters, Tanzie (Hilary) and Ava (Haylie), a pair of rich, spoiled socialites who enjoy material things such as shopping and dating rather than caring about their late father's cosmetics company. When a scandal involving one of the company's products turns into an investigation, the girls find their assets frozen and must adjust to life without their fortune. Just when it seems like things couldn't get any worse, disaster strikes again. When a fire starts in their home, Ava quickly takes all her clothes while Tanzie, caring about her father more, takes her dad's TiVo and some clothes. They are tempted to listen to their advisors and sell the company to their biggest competitor (Fabiella) for just over $60 million dollars. (Which would have given them both $30 Million a piece.) While this means that they could return to the lifestyle that they were accustom to nontheless they decide to honor their father's memory by trying to turn it around themselves. Finding inspiration in Erin Brockovich, the girls decide to get to the root of the scandal. In the end, the girls successfully manage to clear the Marchetta name and reclaim the company. Nearly seven months after the scandal began, the girls are seen leading the company, with Ava as the CEO and Tanzie working as a lab technician.

[edit] Production and release

The film began production on April 18 2005, in Los Angeles, California. For the film's soundtrack, Hilary Duff recorded two new songs: "Happy" (which features the same music as "Play with Fire", her single released in August 2006) and a Timbaland-produced[2] cover version of Madonna's song "Material Girl", which was the inspiration for the film's story and is featured at the beginning of the film.

On March 31, 2006, the entertainment site AndPop.com reported that Lukas Haas had said he did not expect the film to be released. These statements were confirmed on April 5, in an article in The Ryersonian. Has expressed his unhappiness with the film, and said they had been trying to sell the film for a long time with little success.[3] On April 6, the website Box Office Mojo reported that MGM had picked up the rights to Material Girls and would be releasing it on August 25 (this was later changed to August 18). On May 2, the official website for Martha Coolidge reported that it would be released on around 2,000 screens.[4]

Material Girls was released in 1,500 theaters in the U.S. and debuted at number nine on the weekend box office chart, grossing $4.62 million dollars in its first three days of release.[5] The DVD for Material Girls was released on December 12 2006 in the U.S by 20th Century Fox under the MGM Home Entertainment label. It is a double-sided DVD disc with special features including the music video for Hilary Duff's single "Play with Fire". In the UK the film was released on March 2 2007 to coincide with the release of Duff's single "With Love", her album Dignity, and the UK release of her scent With Love... Hilary Duff. It was distributed by Twentieth Century Fox. The film has garnered a total of $16,847,695 worldwide.[6]

[edit] Cast

Image:Material.jpg
The DVD cover for Material Girls.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Material Girls Official website (December 30, 2007).
  2. ^ http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/D/Duff_Hilary/2006/01/10/1387001.html
  3. ^ http://stw.ryerson.ca/~sonian/apr5/arts/haas.html
  4. ^ http://www.marthacoolidge.com/news/news.php?id=6
  5. ^ http://www.boxofficeprophets.com/column/index.cfm?columnID=9697
  6. ^ Box Office Mojo. Material Girls. Retrieved on 2007-12-02.

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Haylie Duff
Singles"Our Lips Are Sealed" · "Material Girl"
FilmsTrue Women · Addams Family Reunion · I Love Your Work · Napoleon Dynamite · In Search of Santa · Material Girls · Nightmare (TV) · My Sexiest Year · Foodfight! · Legacy
RelatedHilary Duff
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Hilary Duff
Studio albumsSanta Claus Lane • Metamorphosis • Hilary Duff • Dignity
Other albumsMost Wanted • 4Ever
Charted singles"Why Not" • "So Yesterday" • "Come Clean" • "Little Voice" • "Our Lips Are Sealed" • "Fly" • "Someone's Watching over Me" • "Wake Up" • "Beat of My Heart" • "Play with Fire" • "With Love" • "Stranger"
Other songs"I Can't Wait" • "Tell Me a Story (About the Night Before)" • "Santa Claus Lane" • "The Getaway" • "I Am" • "Haters" • "Weird" • "My Generation" • "Supergirl" • "Dignity" • "Gypsy Woman" • "Reach Out"
Related topicsDiscography • Lizzie McGuire • Films • Images • All songs • Music videos • Videos/DVDs • Concert tours • This Is Now • Stuff by Hilary Duff • With Love... Hilary Duff • Haylie Duff
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