Chantilly Lace

Name: Chantilly Lace
Genre: Drama
Released: July 18, 1993
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 52
Cast: Ally Sheedy, Helen Slater, Jill Eikenberry, JoBeth Williams, Lindsay Crouse

1993

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Showtime | Release Date (Streaming): July 18, 1993 | R

Starring: Ally Sheedy, Helen Slater, Jill Eikenberry, JoBeth Williams, Lindsay Crouse, Martha Plimpton, Matt Battaglia, Talia Shire

Summary: Seven women friends—including a nun in crisis, an angry divorcee, and an unfiltered, sexually-charged artist—gather in the Colorado Rockies at the upscale vacation home of Val (Jill Eikenberry), to celebrate the surprise 40th birthday of popular film critic Natalie (JoBeth Williams). When Val's offbeat younger sister (Ally Sheedy) arrivesSeven women friends—including a nun in crisis, an angry divorcee, and an unfiltered, sexually-charged artist—gather in the Colorado Rockies at the upscale vacation home of Val (Jill Eikenberry), to celebrate the surprise 40th birthday of popular film critic Natalie (JoBeth Williams). When Val's offbeat younger sister (Ally Sheedy) arrives with a newcomer, a maverick photojournalist (Martha Plimpton), tensions rise as secrets of love, loss, and betrayal are revealed. Years of friendship are tested in a pivotal year as the women re-assemble for the engagement of another, and once more to mourn the shocking death of a third. What began as an experiment at Sundance Film Institute explores the landscape of contemporary women's issues with humor and honesty.… Expand

Director: Linda Yellen

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 102 min

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Patricia Brennan

The result is an unusual movie about acceptance, tolerance, support, sex and fun among a group of longtime female friends who meet for three weekends within a year. Women viewers are not likely to be surprised by their conversation; men may be. Read full review

Emanuel Levy

An amiable, middle-brow entertainment, Chantilly Lace provides a knowing, bittersweet look at the complex lives of modern American women. Read full review

Ken Tucker

Given a wealth of acting talent and the freedom to improvise its way past the cliches that hobble so many films by and about women, Chantilly Lace ends up a cliche anyway: a manipulative tearjerker. Read full review

Caryn James

It is a quirky, ambitious, praiseworthy project that somehow becomes a victim of all the cliches it was invented to avoid. Read full review

Chris Willman

The improv is convincing enough, and the actresses strong and loose enough, that you may really feel like you’re eavesdropping on actual conversation. And that’s intoxicating, in spots. But the chat grows so self-consciously therapeutic in this see-through “Lace” that most voyeurs will want to go peep in another TV window well before the sex talk turns to taxing teariness. Read full review

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