'There are no good parts for women.'

That line sums up the feel and the attitude of this mid 90s indie film, the only one written and directed by Julianna Lavin, who has a cameo as the crazy neighbor wife begging her husband not to leave and throwing herself on the hood of his car to make her point. I guess they can't all be Nicole Holofcener, huh? If you dont know who that is, she has written and directed at least four indie films of varying quality that all have women as the primary characters.

Anyway, I actually enjoy this one. Five friends get together for a bachelorette party and reminesce about old times and the men in their lives. The nude scenes are done tastefully and are not gratutitous, and we all know that if this had been directed by a man, they would have been. And the actresses would have been shamelessly exploited to boot! But I digress.

Only Lora Zane and Olivia d'Abo (using her American accent) have topless scenes, the other four ladies are in shorts, bras and undies but never show their breasts. Not even Kim Cattrall did that, I thought for sure she would, as she's the kind of actress that has been nude on plenty of other things. Also, Dana Delany is pretty well stacked (see Exit To Eden, and a few other things she did), but none of that here either. And Cynthia Stevenson was quite hot in this, I was surprised how attractive she was. As for Laila Robins, she didn't bare any skin at all. Also, the late Glenn Quinn, who played Mark on Roseanne, is in this as the obsessed and nearly-psychotic boy toy of Stevenson's character. And former pop singer Jeremy Jordan shows up briefly to, ah, comfort Cattrall in her time of need (banging her on a kitchen table).

Basically, this was a product of it's times. The writer/director had the Zane character say that "there are no good parts for women" as a bit of social commentary on the perceived state of Hollywood and it's blatant sexism that was in full force at the time. Some feel that it is still that way to this day. I wouldn't know, I'm not in show business, and I'm not a woman.

Other than that, there's not much else to say.