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When four housewives from Westchester come into New York City for matinee day, they never make it to the show because of incidents surrounding a suicidal woman that one of them, Barbara Rhodes, rescues from jumping onto the tracks. It turns out that she's being blackmailed by wealthy businessman Gerald Gordon which threatens to hurt her husband's political career. Rhodes and the other women (Tina Louise, Joanne Pflug and Georgia Engel), all do-gooders in their own way and very dramatic, decide to help her by confronting Gordon (in disguise as the Marx Brothers) and enlist the help of friendly cab driver Rick Aviles (the nasty Willie from "Ghost") not only to take them everywhere but enlist his street smarts in outwitting Gordon and his merry mob.

I'd like to single out Aviles who utilizes his talent for broad comedy (something he didn't do in many of his later film roles where he was sadly typecast), and he steals every moment that he's on camera. It's great to see Tina Louise being funny and enjoying herself, and I found it ironic that she's working here with Pflug whom she replaced on the short lived syndicated soap opera "Rituals". She gets to play Chico Marx and later do a French accent, while the other three women disguise themselves as nuns. Gordon, best known for playing hot-tempered physicians on the soap operas "The Doctors" and "General Hospital", is a fun villain. Hagerty is a fragile victim here, rescued by these amazing women. Maybe not the most believable of situations, but it's a nice distracting 90 minutes with lots to laugh with.

I remember this, had totally forgotten about it, then it resurfaced, oddly enough, and I thought, I remember this.

Basically it was to be an 'ideal' pairing of JoAnn Pflug (truth be told, she who has never been ideal for anything), Barbara Rhoades, Georgia Engel and Tina Louise.

For some reason, I recall this movie around the same time as Lauren Bacall and Ruth Gordon in another movie called Perfect Gentlemen (interesting for the robbery and the editing of a story read by the kids' father into a tape recorder).

Day Women Got Even clearly wanted to become a series of some sorts, with these clever, sleuthing ladies.

The main problem was the four women were not known for chemistry. Engels and Louise complimented others, but they never established a connection on their own.

Worth noting, Engels had just come from the failed sitcom Goodtime Girls, with Annie Potts and Lorna Patterson. Potts of course would go on into Designing Women, not the most diverse assortment of ladies there either.

But Rhoades, Louise, even Pflug, were all known for long legs, statuesque posturing. It was a virtual overkill.

The commercial breaks showed four necklace hearts, apparently the women each had one, that would all come together and link up.

The only scene I can clearly see was two of the women, I think Rhoades and Engel, dressed as nuns and clinging to the back of a garbage truck during the chase scene. Wow, wasn't that crazy and zany and almost Lucille Ball-esque? Want to watch a heavy, star-studded '80s flick, that you won't remember and just want to kill some time? check this one out.