Featured Audience Ratings

• Rachel F

  
  I really liked this movie. Adam Brody did a good job playing the leading man and Kristin Stewart is amazing.

• Conner R

  
  Sort've light, sort've intelligent, sort've good. It mainly rides on the performances of Adam Brody, Kristen Stewart and Meg Ryan. The latter two definitely make this as good as it is, while Adam Brody basically just plays a variation of Seth Cohen from The O.C. So the… More
  Sort've light, sort've intelligent, sort've good. It mainly rides on the performances of Adam Brody, Kristen Stewart and Meg Ryan. The latter two definitely make this as good as it is, while Adam Brody basically just plays a variation of Seth Cohen from The O.C. So the mother/daughter storyline works extremely well, as does their shared time with Adam Brody. However, his time spent alone is utterly worthless and cheesy.

• Daniel P

  
  I caught about a half an hour of this on TV, and it certainly looked and sound like it was made for this medium. It may be good, but I'll probably never find out. [Real rating pending, I suppose.]

• Coxxie M

  
  i loved this. a couple years before Kristen Stewart was doomed to be known as "the twilight girl"

• Sanjaya &

  
  Well, I don't really get this movie very well actually... I know the story is simple, a young man try to refreshing his life after his painful break-up with his girlfriend who is an actress... Then, he found his interesting new life in his grandmother house, with all the women… More
  Well, I don't really get this movie very well actually... I know the story is simple, a young man try to refreshing his life after his painful break-up with his girlfriend who is an actress... Then, he found his interesting new life in his grandmother house, with all the women around him... The story wasn't good at all, it's simple but pretty confusing... I don't know what this movie really want... The performance from the cast was a decent performance... Adam Brody, Kirsten Stewart, even Meg Ryan didn't give their best shot... This one reminds me a little about Elizabethtown, but if I had to compare these two movies, it would be heaven and earth, because I love very much Elizabethtown...

• Nicki M

  
  I liked this one. It wasn't exactly what I expected, which was a chick flick type of movie, and I wasn't too sure I liked it until it was almost over, but it was worthwhile watching and well done. Adam Brody is okay in this one and for once I did find his acting quite… More
  I liked this one. It wasn't exactly what I expected, which was a chick flick type of movie, and I wasn't too sure I liked it until it was almost over, but it was worthwhile watching and well done. Adam Brody is okay in this one and for once I did find his acting quite believable and even good, although he looks a little too young for the part, which isn't exactly his fault. Meg Ryan really needs to lay off the plastic surgery - that was kind of distracting, but she did play an interesting part and did a good job with it as did Kristen Stewart as her daughter. It wasn't the most well put together film and although it was predictable in places, in other ways it wasn't. A good story about people in crisis putting their lives back together. Worth a look.

• Alice S

  
  Incredibly endearing, complicated, and unexpected. Adam Brody is just adorable and Kristen Stewart is HOT, even though she does too much of that Richard Gere blink-acting. Wonderful script, as I would expect from Lawrence Kasdan's son!

• Cassie H

  
  I absolutely loved this movie!!! It involved real life situations and that was one of the reasons to love it!!!

• paul s

  
  I found Meg Ryan to be wonderful in this film (her performance almost worth the price of admission by itself), and there are some nice comic moments from Olympia Dukakis, but, while there are some truths spoken here, much of it comes from an unbelievable source, so losses its potency.… More
  I found Meg Ryan to be wonderful in this film (her performance almost worth the price of admission by itself), and there are some nice comic moments from Olympia Dukakis, but, while there are some truths spoken here, much of it comes from an unbelievable source, so losses its potency. Brody's charactor is totally out of whack, at 26 he's much too wise for his age; his pearls of wisdom running very contrary to the fish out of water persona he enacts through the first half of the film. The film wants him to seem bewildered and out of touch with his life, yet he then suddenly knows exactly how to handle the situation with both daughters, as well as giving Meg the friendship and "real life" that she so desperately needed at the time. In the end, the film didn't fool me, or move me - was waaaay too contrived to be anything more than a diversion. Too bad, for Ryan's performance was a study in repression with the occasional eruption of life.

• Red L

  
  This movie revolves around Carter (Adam Brody). He has woman problems. First he breaks up with a hottie, then he goes to live with his dying grandmother, then he causes all three women/girls who live nearby to fall in love with him. Must be nice.

• Jennifer X

  
  Totally didn't guess that romance between Adam Brody (SO CUTE) and Meg Ryan. I think it tries to be cleverer than it is but all in all it's not a bad movie. And I'm glad to see Meg Ryan's duck lips have swelled down to people-size.

• Dean M

  
  It's a good treat, so refreshing to watch real people in real solutions with real emotions on real journeys - journeys that doesn't necessarily result in warm and fuzzy kisses, life lessons or a make-out scene to the tune of Savage Garden. It's also wonderful to watch… More
  It's a good treat, so refreshing to watch real people in real solutions with real emotions on real journeys - journeys that doesn't necessarily result in warm and fuzzy kisses, life lessons or a make-out scene to the tune of Savage Garden. It's also wonderful to watch characters, rather than actors, and be so immersed in their lives. (Disappointed it has no English subtitles.)

• Manu G

  
  This movie was really good! Meg Ryan as always portraying the classical movie actress with her laid back yet emotional taste she always brings to films. The plot goes like this: His world in complete disorder after his break-up with a famous actress, Carter, a young TV writer, goes to… More
  This movie was really good! Meg Ryan as always portraying the classical movie actress with her laid back yet emotional taste she always brings to films. The plot goes like this: His world in complete disorder after his break-up with a famous actress, Carter, a young TV writer, goes to suburban Detroit to care for his sickly Grandmother and heal his broken heart. Along the way he forms a special bond with the family that lives across from his Grandma, and changes the live of each woman. In the course of this, as is required in every film and thus the world, he changes his own life as well.

• Leigh R

  
  Worth every second of time spent watching. The relationships are magical and beautiful.

• Nani V

  
  Interesting...

• Nate Z

  
  [CENTER][img]http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/6195/photo14qi7.jpg[/img][/CENTER] [COLOR=DarkRed][FONT=Arial]Nepotism is about as prevalent in Hollywood as venereal diseases. Plenty of people get their foot in the door because they just so happen to share genetic material with… More
  [CENTER][img]http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/6195/photo14qi7.jpg[/img][/CENTER] [COLOR=DarkRed][FONT=Arial]Nepotism is about as prevalent in Hollywood as venereal diseases. Plenty of people get their foot in the door because they just so happen to share genetic material with successful filmmakers. It happens all the time in the world of business, and movies rake in the cash, so the Kasdan clan isn?t any exception to the rule. Papa Lawrence has a storied pedigree. He?s responsible for [I]Body Heat[/I], [I]Raiders of the Lost Ark[/I], [I]The Big Chill[/I], [I]The Accidental Tourist[/I], and two, count 'em, two [I]Star Wars[/I] movies (the good ones). His oldest son Jake has directed [I]Zero Effect[/I] and [I]Orange County[/I]. Now younger son Jon Kasdan is taking the leap into the family business with [I]In the Land of Women[/I]. Carter (Adam Brody) is a Los Angeles writer for soft-core pornography. He?s just been dumped by an up and coming Spanish actress (Elena Anaya). He feels lost and comes up with a plan that will help inspire him to write his serious novel that?s been gestating for ten years. He heads out to a small Michigan suburb to live with his crabby hypochondriac grandmother (Olympia Dukakis). Across the street is a glum family. Sarah (Meg Ryan) is coping with raising a family and undergoing chemotherapy for the lump in her breast. Her teen daughter Lucy (Kristen Stewart) is full of angst and hates her mom. Carter inserts himself into the family?s life and may just heal longstanding wounds. [I]In the Land of Women[/I] is a strange experience because it feels like the entire movie is cobbled together by subplots. There doesn?t seem to be a strong central storyline, a strong central character, or any real connective tissue. You start to feel the lack of direction and discipline from Kasdan. The characters are all underdeveloped when they aren?t behaving in unbelievable manners. This is another drama where the characters take long strolls and wax introspectively about their life, spelling everything out with rare clarity to strangers. This would be more permissible had the film presented any other avenue for character development. Ryan gets the sick mom storyline, Stewart gets the awkward and angry teen storyline, and Dukakis gets the crazy grandma storyline. It may be a land of women but these aren?t very well constructed women, and I?m uncertain what exactly Carter has learned from this supposedly life-changing experience. He met some women, he listened; in fact, I think that?s where the film takes its first wrong turn. Carter is a self-described great listener, so guess what happens when he meets women who have bottled up their secrets and true feelings? Yep, he listens. And we watch him listen for most of the movie. This allows characters to unload dramatic monologues that do the major work for characterization, but it still keeps our main character, the traveler to the titular land of women, as nothing more than a low-key cipher. He?s a handsome couch for the female characters to unwind. When Carter is typing his Big Serious Novel I?m clueless as to how he has changed as a person and how he reached his point of enlightenment. I get the unmistakable feeling that Kasdan is really trying to make his own [I]Garden State[/I]. This is another story of personal maturation and it takes places with a visit home to a simpler life with comic oddballs. He?s taken the elements that made [I]Garden State[/I] click, including a hip and frequently heard soundtrack, but Kasdan must have missed the part where [I]Garden State[/I] benefits from strong, likeable characters and a plot. Just like Carter, Kasdan is striving for something grandiose to say about the world, but the end results are no better, and no worse, than something you could catch on a nondescript cable channel. The movie is stuffed with familiar moments, like the bustling teen party, the precocious teen wise beyond her years, the feeble love triangles, and the asshole jock boyfriend. The handful of new wrinkles that Kasdan does explore is easily forgotten; Carter?s job deserves far more discussion. When the Hollywood life butts back in Kasdan doesn?t push the juxtaposition as hard as he should, so Carter's troubles feel puny, especially compared with cancer. [I]In the Land of Women[/I] has some touching moments to it and an occasional wise bit of dialogue, and they stand out amongst an otherwise underwhelming panorama. [I]In the Land of Women[/I] reaches its awkward peaks when it treats Carter?s mother-daughter interaction like two choices for romance. Carter is supposed to be 25, making him about 20 years younger than mom and 10 years older than daughter. In my book, that?s an ?ick? on both accounts. Carter gets to smooch both women (hell, one of the kisses is the poster) and the audience gets to squirm both times. Our sense of guilt is alleviated by multiple characters telling us that Sarah?s father is having an affair, so then it shouldn?t matter if she finds understanding and warmth in the arms of a young emo pup. But what makes these sidesteps so awful is how clumsy and meaningless they prove to be. The acting in the movie is well done. Brody is apt for a romantic comedy leading man. He?s got oodles of laid back charisma and a winning sense of humor that made him the breakout star of a prime time soap. He?s affable and enjoyable to watch, but his relaxed acting style doesn?t help an undefined character. Stewart is a wonderfully natural actress and largely communicates with her gangly physicality. She has the teen contempt down perfect and looks like an average teenager, which compounds how icky it seems to see her kiss Carter. Ryan hasn?t been onscreen in 3 years, and to tell the truth, I kind of missed her. She gets some standard emotional scenes as an afflicted, underappreciated mother and sells them well. Jon Kasdan?s filmmaking debut isn?t going to do much to redefine his artistic image other than that of a lucky genetic benefactor. [I]In the Land of Women[/I] is earnest and well acted, but the movie is just far too underdeveloped and shapeless to succeed. The film is a collection of non-starting subplots and familiar elements; you just feel that the movie needs a kick in the ass to get on track. The soundtrack is pleasant, the production is competently made, but the story is ultimately lacking and underwhelming. The land of women and men deserves better. Nate's Grade: B-[/FONT] [/COLOR]

• Fascade F

  
  Pretty tear jerker/chic flick of a good movie to look at and reflect on in the reflections for the fragility of life. See this...it is that good of a drama.

• Christopher H

  
  Guess my expectations were too high. I was intrigued throughout, with the good cast and different type of storyline, but got lost somewhere through and didn't like the ending. Adam Brody and Kristen Stewart had amazing chemistry though. Loved that much.

• Philip P

  
  Very Nice. I expected this to be more edgy and Brody to be more of an extention of his character from The OC, but it wasnt as outgoing as I was hoping, and Brody was able to be more of a "grown-up" who was still dealing with the transition from young adult to actual… More
  Very Nice. I expected this to be more edgy and Brody to be more of an extention of his character from The OC, but it wasnt as outgoing as I was hoping, and Brody was able to be more of a "grown-up" who was still dealing with the transition from young adult to actual adult-what does that mean? Im not sure but it seems the best way to logically explain Carters state in the world. I did like how at some points you werent sure where the story might go and how the film layered on the different conflicts with each character. An enjoyable film for a Sunday afternoon and dont trust the poster or what you might think this movie is about...allow it surprise you. Its nice.

• Andrew F

  
  A movie that screams "guilty pleasure," but is really enjoyable. When it becomes a "cancer movie," it kind of drags, but the end really elevated the film for me.

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