Buddy film, feminine gender. Three dissimilar single women -- Jane, the black lesbian cabaret entertainer; Robin, the uptight HIV-positive white-bread yuppie; Holly, the abused pregnant white-trash coquette -- share a van driving westward. (Road-weary cinematic technique: a montage of fast-food and gas-station signs, cut to the beat of the pop song in the background.) The van is a literal star vehicle for the three coddled and catered-to actresses, Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker, Drew Barrymore. Big scene: the uninhibited Goldberg egging on the demure Parker to voice synonyms for the female genitals, starting from "down there" and moving ever lower. Comedy and drama alternate with light-switch precision; everything's telegraphed and predigested; nothing's spontaneous and untidy. And Herbert Ross directs the thing, as he does all things (Steel Magnolias, Footloose, etc.), with an aiming-to-please absence of spine. Written by Don Roos. (1995) — Duncan Shepherd
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