Editing Goldie Hawn (section)

===1990–2002: Established star and hiatus ===
In 1990, she starred in the action comedy ''[[Bird on a Wire (film)|Bird on a Wire]]'', a critically panned but commercially successful film that paired Hawn with [[Mel Gibson]]. Hawn had mixed success in the early 1990s, with the thriller ''[[Deceived]]'' (1991), the drama ''[[CrissCross]]'', and opposite [[Bruce Willis]] and [[Meryl Streep]] in ''[[Death Becomes Her]]'' (both 1992). Earlier that year, she starred in ''[[Housesitter]]'', a screwball comedy with [[Steve Martin]], which was a commercial success.

Hawn was absent from the screen for four years while caring for her mother, who died of cancer in 1994.<ref name=actors/> Hawn made her entry back into film as producer of the satirical comedy ''[[Something to Talk About (film)|Something to Talk About]]'' starring [[Julia Roberts]] and [[Dennis Quaid]] and made her directorial debut in the television film ''Hope'' (1997) starring [[Christine Lahti]] and [[Jena Malone]].<ref name=actors/>
Hawn returned to the screen again in 1996 as the aging, alcoholic actress Elise Elliot in the financially and critically successful ''[[The First Wives Club]]'', opposite [[Bette Midler]] and [[Diane Keaton]], with whom she covered the [[Lesley Gore]] hit "[[You Don't Own Me]]" for the film's soundtrack. Hawn also performed a [[cover version]] of the [[The Beatles|Beatles]]' song, "[[A Hard Day's Night (song)|A Hard Day's Night]]", on [[George Martin]]'s 1998 album, ''[[In My Life (George Martin album)|In My Life]]''.

She starred in Woody Allen's musical ''[[Everyone Says I Love You]]'' (1996) and reunited with Steve Martin for the comedy ''[[The Out-of-Towners (1999 film)|The Out-of-Towners]]'' (1999), a remake of the [[The Out-of-Towners (1970 film)|1970 Neil Simon hit]]. The film was critically panned and was a box office failure.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Out-Of-Towners (1999)|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1087047-outoftowners|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|access-date=July 29, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110424181435/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1087047-outoftowners|archive-date=April 24, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Out-of-Towners|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=out-of-towners.htm|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|access-date=July 29, 2010}}</ref> In 1997, Hawn, along with her co-stars from ''The First Wives Club'', [[Diane Keaton]] and [[Bette Midler]], received the [[Crystal Award|Women in Film Crystal Awards]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wif.org/past-recipients|title=Past Recipients|publisher=wif.org|access-date=May 9, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110630083646/http://wif.org/past-recipients|archive-date=June 30, 2011}}</ref>

In 1999, she was awarded [[Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/02.18/pudding.html|work= [[Harvard Gazette]]|title= The Pudding & the Pot|publisher=President and Fellows of Harvard College|date=February 18, 1999 |access-date=March 25, 2016}}</ref> In 2001, Hawn was reunited with former co-stars [[Warren Beatty]] (her co-star in ''[[$ (film)|$]]'' and ''[[Shampoo (film)|Shampoo]]'') and [[Diane Keaton]] for the comedy ''[[Town & Country (film)|Town & Country]]'', a critical and financial fiasco. Budgeted at an estimated US$90&nbsp;million, the film opened to little notice and grossed only $7&nbsp;million in its North American theatrical release.<ref>[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/town_and_country/ Review of ''Town & Country''], Rotten Tomatoes</ref> In 2002, she starred in ''[[The Banger Sisters]]'', opposite [[Susan Sarandon]] and [[Geoffrey Rush]], her last live action film for fifteen years. In 2005 Hawn's autobiography, ''[[A Lotus Grows in the Mud]]'', was published.