One of my favorite Ellen Barkin movies was ‘Switch’ 1991,
with Jimmy Smits and Jo Beth Williams
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103016/
Storyline:
Steve Brooks is a sexist and the prototype macho. Unfortunately one day he is killed by one of his girlfriends. In heaven, though, there is no place for men like him and he is sent back to earth in the body of a woman so that he can see how women are treated by men like the one he once was.
Another was ‘Sea of Love’ with Al Pacino.
I detest her politics but I like her movies.
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She fleeced her ex=husband Ron Pearlman of millions with the finesse of a hooker fleecing a sailor on weekend leave.
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You forgot to mention that her husband is worth today 11 billion and she only got around 4 million- and that was from a production company they both owned.
He was also a serial adulterer thrice divorced.
He was also about 20- 30 years older than she.
She deserved what she got for putting up with the old fart.
(Again, don’t agree with her politics, but have to be fair.)
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