<P> Brenda finds out through her uncle Carmine (Philip Bosco), who has Mafia connections, that Morty is guilty of income tax fraud, while Annie makes a plan to revive her advertising career and buy out Aaron's partners . Elise starts to liquidate all of the marital assets her and Bill collected during their marriage, agreeing to split the proceeds of the liquidation between the two of them . However, as their plan moves through, things start to fall apart when they find out that Bill has no checkered past and nothing for them to use against him . Elise, feeling sorry for herself, gets drunk, which only results in her and Brenda hurling vicious insults at each other, and the women drift apart . When Annie starts thinking about closing down the First Wives Club, her friends come back, saying that they want to see this to the end, and Bill hasn't done anything blatantly wrong, but only as far as he knows . As a result, the wives manage to uncover information revealing that Bill's mistress (Elizabeth Berkley) is actually a minor . </P> <P> Deciding that revenge would make them no better than their husbands, they instead use these situations to push their men into funding the establishment of a nonprofit organization dedicated to aiding abused women, in memory of their college friend Cynthia . The film ends with a celebration at the new Cynthia Swann Griffin Crisis Center for Women . Annie narrates that Elise started a relationship with a cast member in her new, successful play, that Brenda and Morty reconciled their differences and got back together, and that when Aaron tried to get back together with her, Annie told him to "drop dead". While outside the center Bill meets Shelly and the two start to flirt . The film concludes with the three women joyfully singing Lesley Gore's hit "You Don't Own Me". This sequence was choreographed by Patricia Birch and her assistant choreographer was Jonathan Cerullo . </P> <Ul> <Li> Diane Keaton as Annie MacDuggan - Paradis, the vehicle for the film's sporadic voice - over and its central character; an anxious and slightly neurotic housewife, saddled with self - esteem problems, attempting to save her marriage with estranged husband Aaron--much to her daughter's dismay . After Aaron sleeps with her and then leaves her for her young therapist, she decides to band together with Brenda and Elise to form the First Wives Club . Annie learns the Aaron is having problems with his advertising firm partners through the help of her daughter, and buys them out at the end of the film; making her the larger owner of Aaron's firm . <Ul> <Li> Adria Tennor as Young Annie </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Bette Midler as Brenda Morelli - Cushman, a wise - cracking Sicilian - Jewish single mother who helped set her husband Morty on his feet financially, before he left her for his younger employee Shelly, cheating her out of an equitable settlement . She later blackmails Morty to get ownership of his business, but also gives him another chance to work out their marriage . <Ul> <Li> Michele Brilliant as Young Brenda </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Goldie Hawn as Elise Eliot - Atchison, a former one - time Oscar - winning actress, now an alcoholic and heavy smoker relegated to B movies due to her' unprofitable' age . Her husband, Bill, who left her for another woman, is suing for alimony and insisting that all of their joint assets be sold and the profits divided between them . She liquidates their assets by selling them to Annie for a very low amount, and Annie auctions them so she can buy out her husband's partners . Elise also blackmails Bill about dating a minor . <Ul> <Li> Dina Spybey as Young Elise </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Maggie Smith as Gunilla Garson Goldberg, a wealthy New York City society leader who helps the First Wives Club along with their schemes because she was once a first wife, as well as a "second, third and fourth wife", according to Annie . </Li> <Li> Sarah Jessica Parker as Shelly Stewart, Morty's dim - witted but manipulative fiancée . It's indicated throughout the film that Shelly believes a position in high society can be obtained through money and the protagonists exploit her social - climbing attitude for their revenge . This is Parker's second film with Midler as her co-star, the first being the 1993 Disney film Hocus Pocus . </Li> <Li> Dan Hedaya as Morton' Morty' Cushman, Brenda's ex-husband, an electronics tycoon, who takes advantage of his former wife's having signed an out - of - court settlement - just to finance his girlfriend Shelly's extravagant taste . He's later blackmailed into giving Brenda a substantial amount of his money when she and her Uncle Carmine obtain proof of Morty's criminal activity . This later causes him to apologize to Brenda when he realizes Shelly only loved him because of his money . </Li> <Li> Stephen Collins as Aaron Paradis, Annie's conflicted husband and CEO of an advertising agency, who leaves his wife for their therapist, Leslie Rosen . </Li> <Li> Marcia Gay Harden as Dr. Leslie Rosen, Aaron's short - time affair, who is the therapist for both Annie and Aaron . Leslie has been "helping" Annie with her self - esteem problems . </Li> <Li> Victor Garber as Bill Atchison, a successful film producer, who rose to fame through Elise's connections and eventually left her in favor of a young starlet . </Li> <Li> Elizabeth Berkley as Phoebe LaVelle, an up - and - coming actress, living with Bill . She presumably tells him that she is twenty - one, but Elise investigates and reveals to Bill that she is sixteen years old and a high school dropout . </Li> <Li> Eileen Heckart as Catherine MacDuggan, Annie's' controlling' mother . By the end of the film, she tells Annie that she is proud of her and that she doesn't need anyone to make her happy . </Li> <Li> Bronson Pinchot as Duarto Felice, Brenda's boss and (according to Annie) "one of the ten worst interior decorators in New York ." He poses as a famous interior designer to help the First Wive's Club sneak into Morty and Shelly's apartment . </Li> <Li> Stockard Channing as Cynthia Swann - Griffin, a college friend of the three main protagonists, who commits suicide after her husband, Gil, leaves her and marries his young mistress three days after their divorce is finalized . <Ul> <Li> Juliehera Destefano as Young Cynthia </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Jennifer Dundas as Christine "Chris" Paradis, Annie's lesbian and feminist daughter, who resents her father for what he is putting her mother through . She gets a job working at her father's advertising firm to spy on him for Annie . This is the second film in which Dundas plays Keaton's daughter, having previously done so in Mrs. Soffel . </Li> <Li> Ari Greenberg as Jason Cushman, Brenda's son, who is caught in an emotional battle between his parents . </Li> <Li> Philip Bosco as Uncle Carmine Morelli, Brenda's paternal uncle and part of her family's Sicilian Mafia connections . He is the one who informs Brenda that Morty committed had his stores stocked with stolen electronics . </Li> <Li> Timothy Olyphant as Brett Artounian, a movie director who is interested in casting Elise as the main character's aging mother in his new movie . </Li> <Li> Ivana Trump as herself (special guest appearance). </Li> <Li> Kathie Lee Gifford as herself (special guest appearance). </Li> <Li> Ed Koch and Gloria Steinem as party guests (special guest appearances). </Li> <Li> James Naughton as Gil Griffin, Cynthia's ex-husband (special guest appearance). </Li> <Li> Heather Locklear as Gil's new wife (special guest appearance). </Li> <Li> Edward Hibbert as Maurice, a barman serving Elise as she drowns her sorrows </Li> <Li> J.K. Simmons as Federal Marshal </Li> <Li> Rob Reiner as Dr. Morris Packman </Li> <Li> Gregg Edelman as Mark Loest </Li> <Li> Debra Monk as Jilted Lover </Li> <Li> Kate Burton as Woman in Bed </Li> <Li> Walter Bobbie as Man in Bed </Li> </Ul> <Li> Diane Keaton as Annie MacDuggan - Paradis, the vehicle for the film's sporadic voice - over and its central character; an anxious and slightly neurotic housewife, saddled with self - esteem problems, attempting to save her marriage with estranged husband Aaron--much to her daughter's dismay . After Aaron sleeps with her and then leaves her for her young therapist, she decides to band together with Brenda and Elise to form the First Wives Club . Annie learns the Aaron is having problems with his advertising firm partners through the help of her daughter, and buys them out at the end of the film; making her the larger owner of Aaron's firm . <Ul> <Li> Adria Tennor as Young Annie </Li> </Ul> </Li>

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