The Banger Sisters

The title refers to the nickname bestowed upon two infamously prolific groupies of the 1960s by Mothers of Invention co-founder Frank Zappa. The party girls have not had contact for more than 20 years. Suzette (Goldie Hawn) is stuck in the past and serving drinks at the Whisky a Go Go. Vinnie (Susan Sarandon) has reinvented herself as society matron Lavinia, a Martha Stewart-like disciple who has an attorney husband with political aspirations, two teen daughters and a posh home. Suzette is fired from serving drinks at the legendary Whisky a Go Go and visits Vinnie in a contrived story about mythicizing one’s past to vindicate the present and losing track of one’s true self: two elements shared by the film itself. The film has a few big laughs but weak knees. Geoffrey Rush co-stars as a depressed screenwriter who hasn’t had sex in 10 years and announces that he plans to kill his father.