Suzette (Goldie Hawn  Bird on a Wire, Overboard) is a middle-aged groupie who parties hard and sleeps with rock and roll stars. When she gets fired from her job at a club, she decides to pay a visit to her old friend Vinnie (Susan Sarandon  Dead Man Walking, Bull Durham) hoping to score some money from her. When she arrives, she discovers Vinnie, her old groupie friend, a once wild fire is no longer the woman she once knew and is now a pompous posh wealthy woman who now goes by the name Lavinia. When Lavinia casts Suzette away in shame, Suzette inadvertently becomes a part of the family changing Lavinia's and her families lives while making her realize how hollow her ways of living are.

I was curious to discover how this movie would be, especially since it stars the beautiful Erika Christensen (Swimfan) whom I'm in love with. Anyways, Goldie Hawn's character is pretty likeable at times, often resembling a punk rock Lucille Ball. Geoffrey Rush (House on Haunted Hill, Shine) stars as Harry, the neurotic and compulsive writer who tags along with Suzette across country and soon begins falling in love with her as he helps her with her tumultuous situation in the movie. Susan Sarandon stars as the once loose and wild, now uptight and pompous Vinnie who is a normal housewife basically oblivious to her children's terrible behavior. She is constantly mocked and insulted by her children and prefers to take it in good faith, never truly defying them. The movie has a lot of quirky characters, my favorite being the two daughters of Lavinia, Hannah and Ginger played by the beautiful Erika Christensen and Eva Amurri (Susan Sarandon's daughter FYI). They're hilarious characters portraying the quintessential spoiled brats, often taking their mother for granted and reacting to situations in melodramatic ways.

The movie pretends to be a comedy when really, the move presents a bittersweet and sometimes depressing storyline set to the music of comedy. The characters, though quirky are very annoying, and one-dimensional with no emphasis on them making them more two-dimensional than ever. Goldie Hawn can barely hold this movie on her own, often becoming very shrill and obnoxious. Susan Sarandon isn't in this nearly as much as I wanted her to, and when she was on-screen she's barely focused on which makes her all the less interesting as the movie progresses. The story is pretty simple and pretty dumb never giving us any real reason we're supposed to be watching this. The story is pointless and senseless without any true direction to it. The "romance" between Hawn and Rush is very paper thin and felt like filler between the real plots. Geoffrey Rush also felt very out of place in this movie, serving as Hawn's shoulder to cry on and never truly serving any real purpose to the story except to pop up occasionally and interact with Hawn's corky character.

I nearly gave this one star, but because of its enjoyable storyline and quirky characters, "The Banger Sisters" gets a very marginal two stars.