Material Girls is a movie about exactly what it sounds like, girls who are extremely material. Real life sisters Hillary and Haylie Duff play the rich heiress’s to their father’s cosmetic company.
The girls are considering selling their fathers company when one of the companies’ products is linked to causing some pretty disgusting skin damage, and the girls are no longer able to get a fat inheritance from a sale.
To make matters worse the girls also somehow manage to burn down their house, and have their car stolen. This series of events leave them homeless and wealth less. What do you do when you lose your car, house, and company all at once? Move in with your maid of course!
The girls realize throughout the movie that their wealth isn’t everything, and have the opportunity to take a look at how the other 90% of the population lives.
The PG rating of this movie as well as the actresses playing the main characters makes its target audience appear to be young pre-teen and teenaged girls. After seeing the movie, in my opinion this movie is not in the least bit appropriate for any children under the age of at least sixteen.
There are quite a number of pretty blatant sexual references in this movie, some language, and a few characters are prostitutes.
I’m in my late twenties, and would like to think that I am not extremely conservative in my views, but I am fascinated that this movie received a PG rating. To me, a PG movie is something you could be comfortable taking your child to on a Saturday afternoon without fear of exposing them to extreme adult situations. There were prostitutes in this movie, and some huge sexual references… I feel like that should at least earn you a PG-13.
Nothing is the movie is much worse than what you might see in “The Simple Life”, the film obviously appears to be trying to play off the hijinks you find in that show when rich girls get a look at how the non-rich live. If your child is mature enough to watch The Simple Life, then Material Girls is probably just as appropriate.