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| September 23, 2002 | Denby, David | COPYRIGHT 2002 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

If groupies followed film critics around from screening room to screening room, I suppose I might take a different view of their social value, but they don't, so right now I'll stand on my conscience and say that the premise of "The Banger Sisters"--that two women in middle age need to revive the spirit they had when they were rock groupies decades earlier--strikes me as, well, bananas. The negative rap on groupies wasn't that they had sex with lots of guys but that they were parasites whom no one wanted to see in the morning. Where was the cool part of it? "The Banger Sisters," a comedy written and directed by the screenwriter Bob Dolman, is almost as bizarrely askew in ...

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