They should have switched the casting
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Banger Sisters
chinaskee — 20 years ago(June 27, 2005 05:20 PM)
Goldie Hawn was the Laugh-In girl so you expect her to still be a hippie at however old she is now . I think it would have been a more interesting film if they had cast against type and made her the groupie who marries the lawyer and Susan Sarandon the one who never grew up instead.
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walrus29 — 20 years ago(July 23, 2005 01:23 PM)
Hmm, that would've been interesting, and maybe made the script a little more believable. It seemed very unlikely that Sarandon really would have made such a dynamic change, because she played the part of the uptight mom so well. Hawn would have been a little more understandable, I guess.
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harlowfan — 16 years ago(July 07, 2009 05:56 AM)
It seemed very unlikely that Sarandon really would have made such a dynamic change, because she played the part of the uptight mom so well.
Oh, I disagree.
I can see someone from a past like that working hard to create a life that appears the polar opposite IF they are trying to run from that past, like Lavinia is.
What I find a little unbelieveable is how Suzette stayed so unbelievably the same. She's around 50 and living in what appears to be some studio apartment with hippie crap, candles, and posters all over the place, like a 20-year-old. It's like time stopped when Lavinia left town. Pretty sad.
Both women's mistakes are the whole moral of the story - It's important that you remember and honor your past, but you can't live there.
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