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#Q ORIGINAL QUESTION

Regarding the film The First Wives Club (1996), where does the main character go at the climax of the film and why?

#M ANNOTATED LLM RESPONSE

The main characters—Annie MacDuggan-Paradis (Diane Keaton), Brenda Cushman (Bette Midler), and Elise Elliot (Goldie Hawn)—go to the Cynthia Swann Griffin Crisis Center for Women at the climax of the film.

The location is a property, often cited as 4 Bond Street at Lafayette Street in the NoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, New York, which the women had been using as the base for their "First Wives Club" meetings.

They go there for the grand opening celebration of the crisis center.

The specific detail is that establishing this center is the final, positive step of their plan for "justice." They had cleverly coerced their ex-husbands into signing checks totaling $30 million to fund the fictitious "First Wives Club Foundation." Instead of keeping the money as simple revenge, they used it to convert their club's base into a legitimate organization to aid other women in crisis, naming it after their friend, Cynthia Swann-Griffin (Stockard Channing), whose suicide had initially brought them back together.

The grand opening celebration also serves as the setting for their final, triumphant confrontation with their ex-husbands, followed by the main characters performing the song "You Don't Own Me."

#F CORRECTION FEED (CLICK TO SEARCH)

[1] The facility is indeed named the Cynthia Swann Griffin Crisis Center for Women.

[2] 4 Bond Street is the real-world filming location (the Robbins & Appleton Building). While the characters use this building as their base, the film does not explicitly cite this as the in-universe address.

[3] The climax occurs at the grand opening celebration of the center.

[4] The film does not state that the husbands signed checks totaling $30 million. This figure matches the film's production budget (~$30 million). The funding in the plot comes from various assets (auction proceeds, stock buyouts, blackmail) without a specific lump sum of $30 million mentioned.

[5] The characters perform 'You Don't Own Me' at the end of the film.

#O MISSED POINTS & OVERSIGHTS

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#C RELATED QUERIES

#01 What was the production budget of The First Wives Club?

#02 How did the First Wives Club fund the crisis center in the movie?

#S SOURCES

#R ORIGINAL AI RESPONSE

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The main characters—Annie MacDuggan-Paradis (Diane Keaton), Brenda Cushman (Bette Midler), and Elise Elliot (Goldie Hawn)—go to the **Cynthia Swann Griffin Crisis Center for Women** at the climax of the film. The location is a property, often cited as **4 Bond Street at Lafayette Street** in the NoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, New York, which the women had been using as the base for their "First Wives Club" meetings. They go there for the **grand opening celebration** of the crisis center. The specific detail is that establishing this center is the final, positive step of their plan for "justice." They had cleverly coerced their ex-husbands into signing checks totaling **$30 million** to fund the fictitious "First Wives Club Foundation." Instead of keeping the money as simple revenge, they used it to convert their club's base into a legitimate organization to aid other women in crisis, naming it after their friend, Cynthia Swann-Griffin (Stockard Channing), whose suicide had initially brought them back together. The grand opening celebration also serves as the setting for their final, triumphant confrontation with their ex-husbands, followed by the main characters performing the song "You Don't Own Me."

#A DIRECT ANSWER (VERIFIED ANALYSIS)

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At the climax of The First Wives Club (1996), the main characters—Annie, Brenda, and Elise—attend the grand opening celebration of the Cynthia Swann Griffin Crisis Center for Women. This center, named after their late friend whose suicide reunited them, is established in the building they used as their headquarters (filmed at 4 Bond Street in NoHo). They funded the center using the assets and money they exacted from their ex-husbands through various schemes (blackmail, auctioning assets, and stock buyouts), though the film does not specify a single lump sum of $30 million (a figure likely conflated with the film's production budget). The event culminates in a triumphant performance of the song "You Don't Own Me."

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