Diana Hardcastle, Giorgia Massetti, Helen Hunt
After emptying too many married men's wallets in New York, serial gold digger Stella Erlynne (Helen Hunt) sails to Italy in search of fresh prospects. Soon, gossip buzzes about Stella's liaison with r...( read more
)
DVD Release Date: June 13, 2006
Stats: 975 reviews
I loved this film though the plot described here is actually inaccurate. It is what we are lead to believe but which in fact is untrue.
If you like a more classical story.... more playlike.... then you will enjoy this film.
Love Helen Hunt but couldn't buy her in the role of the "other woman". A film centered around scandal and passion which lacked both of these elements.
One of Oscar Wilde's most popular plays is given a new screen interpretation in this period comedy. In New York in the early '30s, Mrs. Erlynne (Helen Hunt) is a widow who lives comfortably through the largest of several married men, and when she runs out of wealthy suitors in Ma...( read more)
A Good Woman suffers from a staggeringly bad miscasting of its central role and from a cut-and-paste screenplay that substitutes random insertions of Wilde epigrams for character. full review
Something is wrong with A Good Woman: The lightning never strikes. It's never quite alive. full review
A Good Woman above all lacks the joyful, lucid anger that lights up Wilde's plays -- the sense that beneath the witticisms he's telling it like it is to people who aren't used to hearing it. full review
Wilde provides the quips, Helen Hunt the acting chops, Scarlett Johansson the ample bosom, and all of it is filtered through golden mediterranean light. full review
The source material and supporting actors make A Good Woman a fairly good movie. But the performances by Helen Hunt as an aging seductress and Scarlett Johansson as a young bride are closer to mediocre. full review
Except for the expert Tom Wilkinson as Tuppy, a wealthy swain of Stella's, the acting ranges from amateurish to atrocious. full review
This board looks lonely. Be the first to talk about "A Good Woman" !
Critic ratings and reviews powered by RottenTomatoes.com
Fresh (60% or more critics rated the movie positively)
Rotten (59% or fewer critics rated the movie positively)
All Rotten Tomatoes content is used under license from Rotten Tomatoes. Rotten Tomatoes, Certified Fresh, and the Tomatometer are the trademarks of Incfusion Corporation, d/b/a Rotten Tomatoes, a subsidiary of IGN Entertainment, Inc.
Click a thumb to vote on that suggestion, or add your own suggestions.
