Remember Hilary Duff? You know, the tweener princess with tombstone caps and Barbara Mandrell hair? The one who’s looked divorced since she was 15? Well, we kind of knew she was over, but this Friday’s release of her latest and likely last star vehicle, Material Girls, officially sounds the death knell.
It’s a canned riches-to-rags comedy in which Hilary and her middle-aged, horse-faced sister Haylie play rich girls who become poor and learn life lessons or something. It’s being released in the dog days of August by defunct non-studio MGM at about 1,500 unlucky, contractually obligated theaters. Sadly, the great Anjelica Huston is forced to co-star, presumably as some sort of foreign-accented villainess. Did she owe back taxes or something?
Anyway…’twas nice knowing you, Hilary. Or not. I never actually saw anything you were in. Try to handle the career implosion gracefully. Find a rich husband, squeeze out a couple of kids, and tell the Lifetime “Where are they now?” specials that you just wanted to focus on family.
Material Girls [IMDb]
This is so cunty! (I approve.)
What’s even more sad for the Duff sisters is that, watching a trailer while waiting for a car battery (on the WB/CW whatever) I thought it was a Mary Kate and Ashley movie… at least then it would stand a chance of making a buck.
Middle-aged??! Only in Hollywood.