Memorable, crazy movie

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Excellent but underrated film

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

This film is filled to the brim with fantastic Hollywood injokes and highly entertaining dialogue for those people who are familiar with the historical private lives of these individual actresses. For those people who don't know the lives of "these old broads," don't bother watching it, you won't get it. I'm sure that's the situation with most of the people who gave this film negative reviews. I understand how this movie could be frightfully boring and meaningless to those people who aren't versed in classic Hollywood lore, as nearly all of the situations and lines are witty remarks about the actress playing the role, but for those of us who get the joke, it is a brilliant, hysterically funny piece of work.

Lauren Bacall was not the first actress that was offered the Joan Collins' role. Shirley MacLaine personally offered the role to Doris Day, the #1 Boxoffice Star of All Time. Doris turned it down flat. She smelled a rat and avoided it.I saw this picture and watch it in horror. The funny thing is that June Allyson was offered to play the Collin's character's mother. Just think, if June had accepted it, she would have been playing Doris Day's mother! That struck me as toooooooooo funny.June felt that the role was too dowdy and she didn't want her fans to see her like that.Now that I think about it, there would have been some real billing problems if Doris had taken the role. None of the actresses ever had Day's boxoffice power (10 times on the the coveted Hearld's List of top ten box office stars - she was #1 five times - a record for a woman). The billing would have been like this: Doris Day, Shirley MacLaine, Debbie Reynolds and special guest star, Elizabeth Taylor. I really wish they had had a better script, perhaps a juicy, bitchy murder mystery. Day might have accepted, especially if they'd have shot it in Carmel, CA (since she refuses to make another film in Hollywood.)I felt "These Old Broads" was overacted throughout and the whole thing looked 'gaudy.' Doris, your instincts were right on. Also, I agree with you for not taking "Mother." After Day became a superstar, she NEVER played second fiddle to ANY actor and "Mother" would have had to have been REWRITTEN to make Day the star, not Albert Brooks.

If you're fed up to the back teeth with pretty young things with silicone enhanced breasts and un-enhanced talent, this is the movie for you! The team of Collins, Reynolds, and McClaine are a laugh riot in their roles as mature actresses with less-than mature mentalities, libidinous tendecies, and old grudges. And speaking of mature...well...let's just say that most of the humor is a bit too hot for children. (Especially when Collins' Mobster boyfriend...Nah, I'm not givin' it away!)

A decent TV movie. Good interplay between the actresses. A little bit more slapstick humor than I would have expected.It helped that I was watching it at my mother's house so she could explain the nuances of the interplay between the characters (e.g., that Elizabeth Taylor really did steal Debbie Reynolds husband).