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Rent Movie.com movie reviews presents Material Girls Movie Review a 2006 film starring Hilary Duff, Haylie Duff and directed by Martha Coolidge It’s A Short Trip From The Penthouse To The Poorhouse. Two wealthy sisters, both heiresses to their family’s cosmetics fortune, are given a wake-up call when a scandal and ensuing investigation strip them of their wealth. Glamour girls Hilary and Haylie Duff (featured in Lizzie McGuire and 7th Heaven, respectively) star as cosmetic heiresses Ava and Tanzie Marchetta, whose lives get turned upside down when their deceased father’s company is accused of selling toxic products. Wouldn’t you know it, Ava and Tanzie decide to go all Erin Brockovich and investigate. Material Girls should be awful–but it isn’t. 
It’s not a great film, it may not even be a good film, but it’s more watchable than it has any right to be, thanks to the confident and thoughtful guiding hand of director Martha Coolidge (Rambling Rose, Valley Girl). It’s hard to say exactly how a director can keep something like Material Girls from being as insipid as, say, New York Minute. Coolidge injects some hint of awareness of what it actually means to be poor, casts some surprising actors (like Anjelica Huston, Prizzi’s Honor; Brent Spiner, Star Trek: The Next Generation; and Lukas Haas, Brick), and somehow makes the Marchetta sisters both vapid and sympathetic–all of which is some impressive cinematic alchemy. The result is the most enjoyable film of Hilary Duff’s career. –Bret Fetzer
Comment by K. Reynolds
# January 2, 2007,
Gleaming the Cube is a great action flick if you’re a fan of the typical 80’s high flying intense action with weak plots. If you were a skateboarder around the time this film was released like myself, or a skater period. You will uphold this movie with high regard. This movie inspired so many people in the late 80’s to start skateboarding. It introduces the intriguing and exciting culture of skateboarding paralleled to an action/mystery plot. The skateboarding scenes were shot well…due to the skateflick cinematography guru, Stacy Peralta. There were plenty of scenes with monumental tricks such as Natas Kaupas’s famous ollie into the bed of the pickup truck. If you watch the movie today you can pinpoint certain mistakes that should have been edited. Like the poor stunt double shots ( you can tell that one stunt double is Mike McGill and the other guys on the streets are Rodney Mullen and Natas Kaupas). You also can’t even forget about how they tried to actually make us believe that the Mike McGill skateboard and the skinny freestyle board with the same graphic were the same board…yeah right! Also, it’s pretty funny, that whenever you see Christian Slater trying to skate he pushes goofy footed mongo. But all of his stunt doubles pushed regular footed. It’s funny in a sarcastic sort of way, and its something that we all can identify and find humorous. But that’s what makes this movie a classic amongst the skate population. It’s something that all of us can immediately relate to. This is a must have for any real skate heads out there. It will immediately cause you to reminisce about a time when skating was genuinely all about having fun.
Comment by Gleaming the Cube Movie Review
# January 2, 2007,
I’ve seen this movie so many times I could probably repeat it word for word. It’s full of intense action and the stunts are extreme. Story of a young skater who seeks revenge for his adopted brothers murder. Gleaming the Cube is a definite must see.