The First Wives Club

The First Wives Club is a 1996 comedy film, based on the bestselling 1992 novel of the same name by Olivia Goldsmith. Narrated by Diane Keaton, it stars Keaton, Goldie Hawn, and Bette Midler as three divorced women who seek revenge on their exhusbands who left them for younger women. Stephen Collins, Victor Garber and Dan Hedaya costar as the husbands, and Sarah Jessica Parker, Marcia Gay Harden and Elizabeth Berkley as their lovers, with Maggie Smith, Bronson Pinchot and Stockard Channing also starring. Scott Rudin produced and Hugh Wilson directed the film was distributed by Paramount Pictures.

At Middlebury College in 1969, four young friends, Elise Elliot, Brenda Morelli, Annie MacDuggan, and Cynthia Swann, are graduating. As graduation gifts, valedictorian Cynthia presents the girls with matching Bulgari pearl necklaces. As the graduates take a commemorative picture of the four of them presumably for the last time, Cynthia makes Annie, Brenda and Elise promise that they will always be there for each other throughout the remainder of their lives.In the present time, the four friends eventually lose touch with one another, as evident when Cynthia Stockard Channing is tearfully gazing at the picture of the four of them on that graduation day. Now wealthy and living in a luxurious penthouse, she gives her maid her own Bulgari pearl necklace matching the three she gave to her friends on graduation day, and has the maid mail letters to them. She later walks outside of the balcony of her penthouse in a floor length fur coat, a cigarette and a drink, and then commits suicide by jumping to her death after learning through the tabloids that her exhusband Gil whom Cynthia made wealthy through her connections, according to narrator Annie married his much younger mistress the day before. ........

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