Material Girls is a 2006 American teen comedy film directed by Martha Coolidge, loosely based on Jane Austen's 1811 novel Sense and Sensibility, updating the setting to modern Los Angeles.
Sisters Tanzie and Ava are wealthy, spoiled Hollywood socialites who enjoy shopping and dating, paying little attention to their late father's company, Marchetta Cosmetics, run by co-founder and family friend Tommy Katzenbach.
While preparing a home spa treatment, Tanzie accidentally spills nail polish remover.
Watching the news, Tanzie recognizes a woman who accused Marchetta of leaving her disfigured as also in an eczema documentary on KLAE.
Ava pawns her father's Rolex (her most treasured possession) to pay Tanzie's bail money after Henry helps her realize that family is more important than material things.
The girls meet with the board of directors and successfully clear the Marchetta name, revealing that Tommy (their father's best friend and trustee of the company) was behind the scandal, as he had helped fabricate testimonials, and used money taken from the sisters' personal bank accounts.
[3] The DVD for Material Girls was released on December 12, 2006, in the U.S. by 20th Century Fox under the MGM Home Entertainment label.
It is a double-sided DVD with special features including the music video for Hilary Duff's single "Play with Fire".
The consensus reads, "Plagued by paper-thin characterizations and a hackneyed script, Material Girls fails to live up to even the minimum standards of its genre.
"[9] Writing for The New York Times, Manohla Dargis wrote "The real-life sisters Hilary and Haylie Duff star in this incompetent spin on the poor-little-rich-girl story.
Not yet legal and apparently never educated, the sisters live with a fleet of happy helpers, [...] aren’t just spoiled rotten; they’re nitwits.