There are a lot of shocking moments in Material Girls, the Hilary and Haylie Duff vehicle about two cosmetics-company heiresses who almost lose their family fortune. There's the moment an obscenely out-of-place Anjelica Huston first comes onscreen as the girls' rival. Or Hilary Duff's embarrassing chola impersonation—a joke that fell flat even in a theater full of Duff's tween fans. (Granted, there were no cholas in the theater.) Then there's the four-way split-screen used to bring energy to the pivotal telephone-research montage. But the most shocking moment comes during the closing credits, when it's revealed that not one, not two, but three screenwriters were responsible for a plot that someone seems to have hastily slapped together after taking a walk around a Sephora outlet while listening to "Beat Of My Heart" on loop.
