Material Girls
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| Directed by | Martha Coolidge |
| Produced by | Milton Kim Tim Wesley Mark Morgan Guy Oseary Hilary Duff Haylie Duff Susan Duff Eva LaRue David Faigenblum |
| Written by | John Quaintance Jessica O'Toole Amy Rardin |
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Hilary Duff Haylie Duff Anjelica Huston Lukas Haas Maria Conchita Alonzo Brent Spiner |
| Music by | Jennie Muskett |
| Cinematography | Johnny E. Jensen |
| Edited by | Steven Cohen |
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| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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97 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $15 million |
| Box office | $16,907,725 |
Material Girls is a 2006 American teen comedy film starring Hilary and Haylie Duff, Anjelica Huston, Lukas Haas, Maria Conchita Alonzo, and Brent Spiner. It is based on a script written by John Quaintance and is directed by Martha Coolidge. The plot was conceived from Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. It is co-produced by Patriot Pictures and Maverick Films.
Tanzania "Tanzie" (Hilary Duff) and Ava (Haylie Duff), two rich, spoiled Hollywood socialite sisters who enjoy material things such as shopping and dating, rather than caring about the family cosmetics company Marchetta Cosmetics which was founded by Victor Manchetta (Philip Casnoff). When Victor passes away and Tanzie and Ava's mother married to a prince, Marchetta Cosmetics is run by its co-founder and family friend Tommy Katzenbach (Brent Spiner). One year later, Tanzie plans to go to college in the future and Ava is planning to announce her engagement with fiancè Mic (Brandon Beemer) to the public, despite having been engaged months ago.
When a major media scandal involving their father's night cream causing extreme skin conditions breaks out on the news, the press soon mob the girls, causing theirs and their father's reputation destroyed, forcing them to stay inside. Soon, an accidental fire starts in their mansion. Ava quickly grabs her engagement party dress and some miscellaneous objects. Tanzie, on the other hand, takes her father's TiVo which had a recording of her father talking about his cosmetics on the news and doesn't grab any clothes. They leave for a hotel and soon learn all their credit cards have been shut down, leaving the girls completely broke. So they go and stay with their maid and close family friend Inez (María Conchita Alonso) in her small apartment and their car gets stolen by two guys (Joel Madden and Benji Madden) they mistakenly took them for valets.
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