
An unlikely basketball team of unappreciated middle-aged Texas women, all former high school champs, challenge the current arrogant high school girls' state champs to a series of games to raise money for breast cancer prevention. Sparks fly as these marginalized women go to comic extremes to prove themselves on and off the court, and become a national media sensation.... (Full plot summary below)
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An unlikely basketball team of unappreciated middle-aged Texas women, all former high school champs, challenge the current arrogant high school girls' state champs to a series of games to raise money for breast cancer prevention. Sparks fly as these marginalized women go to comic extremes to prove themselves on and off the court, and become a national media sensation.
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| ReelTalk Movie ReviewsBetty Jo TuckerWith its suspenseful plot and a dream cast starring five fascinating actresses (plus Eric Roberts in a deliciously unsympathetic role), this unusual comedy is irresistible. |
| AV ClubMike D'AngeloEarly in The Hot Flashes, Brooke Shields is seen reading Menopause For Dummies, and it doesn’t take long to realize that’s precisely what you’re watching. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfSeidelman's direction holds the picture in place, and its interest in health issues and cancer awareness is commendable. There's predictability a-plenty, but also some heart to make the pains of familiarity palatable. |
| Cinemalogue.comTodd JorgensonAbundant good intentions help to soften the predictably mild impact of this broad female-empowerment comedy. |
| USA TodayScott BowlesThis comedy deserves credit for taking a decided viewpoint — and delivering a heartfelt if occasionally misguided message. |
| Movie MetropolisJames PlathBy and large this is a film meant to do exactly what the film's charity event does: to provide light entertainment while raising money for a good cause. |
| Q Network Film DeskJames Kendrickunlikely to put Susan Seidelman back in the front ranks of Hollywood, even though it is an enjoyable, albeit highly derivative, comedy that dares to put "women of a certain age" front and center. |
| New York TimesStephen HoldenIn critical ways, the movie is a mess. The basketball scenes are so sloppy and haphazard that the would-be slapstick registers as confusion. But away from the court, the actors bring their caricatures to folksy comic life. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleThe problem is the script, which, in scene after scene, contains no surprises. |
| New York PostFarran Smith NehmeLifetime movies have their pleasures, and so does this film. Chief among them is the cast, a group of over-45 actresses who really are better than ever; in the cases of Brooke Shields and Daryl Hannah, remarkably better. |