Bette Midler calls on her old friends for bridesmaid duty in Key West in the third-act friendship comedy “The Fabulous Four.” Those friends include Megan Mullally and Sheryl Lee Ralph, as well as Susan Sarandon, who she's been estranged from for 40 years and who is tricked into attending.
Police deploy pepper spray as protesters march toward the U.S. Capitol, where Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is delivering a speech to Congress.This image released by Bleecker Street shows, from left, Susan Sarandon , Megan Mullally , Sheryl Lee Ralph and Bette Midler in a scene from “The Fabulous Four.” This image released by Bleecker Street shows Bette Midler in a scene from “The Fabulous Four.” This image released by Bleecker Street shows Megan Mullally in a scene from “The Fabulous Four.
In the vein of “80 for Brady” and “Book Club,” “The Fabulous Four” may not be a great movie, but it’s also better than it looks. Although it strains for raucousness with edibles and a parasailing expedition gone wrong, there is something admirably sane about it too even if you don’t believe a single moment. It begins, as many of these kinds of films do, with a somewhat tortured explanation of why these women became friends in their youth.
The movie was directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse, the Australian filmmaker behind great and varied female-focused films like “How to Make an American Quilt,” “The Dressmaker” and “Muriel’s Wedding,” and written by Jenna Milly and Ann Marie Allison. And it never quite harmonizes. These characters, fabulous as they may be individually or on paper, aren’t greater together somehow.
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