Meg Ryan, Eva Mendes, Jada Pinkett Smith

A wealthy New Yorker leaves her cheating husband and bonds with other society women at a resort. A remake of George Cukor's 1939 film "The Women."

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142 critics

PG-13, 1 hr. 54 min.

Directed by: Diane English

Release Date: September 4, 2008

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DVD Release Date: December 19, 2008

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  • October 5, 2009
    Lots of A list actors. A little unrealistic. Start your own clothes designs and Saks wants to buy them? A friend writes a best seller on her first try? I guess the movie is OK to watch if you don't think too much.
  • March 3, 2009
    ok the person that got the most laughs from me was The Old Maid! housekeeper/ whatever! she was pretty good!
  • January 12, 2009
    Loved it! It is exactly the type of movie that I really get into. All of the lead actresses were great, especially Meg Ryan. Cute story and it's pretty damn funny too.
  • January 2, 2009
    The Women starring a very good cast is a good film overall...not as good as the original from MGM in 1939 at all. If you want to see the best watch the original starring Norma Shearer and Joan Craford.

    The new film stars Meg Ryan as Mary Haines whom finds out her husband in N...( read more)YC is cheating on her with Crystal Allen (Eva Mendes). Crystal is a perfume girl at Sacks 5th Ave. and wants the wealth of the married man. With a strong cast such as Debra Messing. Jada Pinckett Smith, Annette Benning, Candice Bergin, Bette Midler, Cloris Leachman and more help this movie which is on the weak side overall. The script is weak and dissappointing overall. The beginning of the film is not that bad but then it drags out and lost me....try to see it but if you want a true classic rent the original.
  • December 29, 2008
    Mary Haines: [sees her daughter burning tampons] "What is she doing?
    Maggie: Well, she says she doesn't want to be a woman."



    When gossip concerning her husband's infidelity leads to Mary's (Meg Ryan) doorstep, she panics, unable to process this violation of trust during ...( read more)a period of time where she also loses her job and the admiration of her teen daughter. Coming to the rescue are her friends, fashion magazine editor Sylvia (Annette Bening), full-time mom Edith (Debra Messing), and full-time lesbian Miriam (Jada Pinkett Smith), not to mention further support from housekeeper Maggie (Cloris Leachman) and mother Catherine (Candice Bergen). While struggling with their own disappointments in life, the ladies team up to help Mary through this difficult time, turning their venom on Crystal (Eva Mendes, slutting it up), the formidable mistress who won?' back down from the affair. English loves her characters, each woman representing a certain shade of femininity, but there's little consistency to the story, which springs back and forth from a screwball comedy to weighty drama, exploring the difficulty of marriage maintenance, the dangerous self-esteem issues facing women today, and the thin-ice dance of lifelong bonding. and Bening carefully ace their roles. Playing the fashion queen fearing her age is leaving her ego vulnerable to a youthful revolt at her magazine, Bening seems almost a caricature of the Samantha Jones mentality at first, but the performance relaxes during the film, and Bening plays the comedy and soul with generous quirk. Point by point, writer-director Diane English has rethought the original in a seemingly intelligent way, and she provides three-dimensional roles for Candice Bergen, as Ryan's mother, and Cloris Leachman, as her housekeeper, in parts that would have been mere token bits in most other films of this sort.
  • November 14, 2009
    I liked it. This movie was pretty funny. I thought it was hilarious that we never got to see Stephen and find out if he was good looking. Because you know we would skew our thoughts on him if we could.
    A lot of great actresses in this movie.
    Good to watch on a night when it's j...( read more)ust you and the cat.
  • November 11, 2009
    If you cut out all the realism in the movie, don't think too much and just watch the whole social bits, it's not as bad as the reviews make it out to be. I thought it was quite funny. It was painful watching the movie without a single man in shot and there's a couple of Dove mome...( read more)nts thrown but what I thoroughly enjoyed was the soundtrack. :}
  • November 10, 2009
    What a piece of garbage.
  • November 5, 2009
    This movie was awful. It was poorly constructed, and the plot was incredibly stupid. I'm thinking that the movie wants to say that all women are vapid and shallow like the Mary-Sues in this film, and I find that sad. We need to renounce stereotypes instead of embracing them - com...( read more)e on, we're in the 21st century already! I had low expectations, anyway, and this movie actually fell below them. The only reason I watched it was because I knew someone in it, anyway. I guess it was worth it for that. And I liked how there were only women in the whole movie...but other than that, it SUCKED.
  • November 4, 2009
    wonderful friendship....the power of gossip!!!! haha

Critic Reviews


September 15, 2008
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker

The funniest thing about The Women is that Mick Jagger is one of the producers. There was a knowing laugh in the theatre as his name sprang up in the opening credits -- our last chance to laugh, as it... full review

September 12, 2008
Pete Hammond, Hollywood.com

Nothing more, but nothing less than just hilarious flat-out fun that manages to top 'Sex And The City' in every way imaginable. full review

September 12, 2008
Claudia Puig, USA Today

Though aspects of the 1939 comedy seem silly and shrill now, they were at least consistently entertaining. Where the original was deliciously loopy and melodramatic fun, this one is watered-down, sapp... full review

September 12, 2008
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle

Fourteen years in the making, The Women marks a serviceable directorial debut for English. full review

September 12, 2008
A.O. Scott, The New York Times

It hurts especially to watch Ms. Bening and Candice Bergen (who plays Mary's mother) lend their wit and dignity to a project that has so little of its own. full review

September 12, 2008
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

What a pleasure this movie is, showcasing actresses I've admired for a long time, all at the top of their form. full review

September 12, 2008
Nigel Andrews, The Financial Times

The Women has a cast to die for - Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Candice Bergen, Carrie Fisher - in a film that dies before our eyes. full review

September 11, 2008
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

A big-name cast of actresses gives it a go, but everyone from Meg Ryan as the cheated-on wife to Eva Mendes as the home-wrecking perfume girl struggles with a script that resists being crowbarred into... full review

September 10, 2008
Armond White, The New York Press

This new version of The Women fails to celebrate its characters as women. full review

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Comments


  • kileylang
    June 12, 2009
    made me laugh:)
  • wing911
    January 24, 2009
    just wait for a rainy day and nothing else to do when this movie is on cable. Only thing worth watching is Debra Messing's performance. The rest, quite dissapointing
  • badwolf0409
    January 12, 2009
    Wow, they really kind of are the inferior species.
  • kristyann1
    December 22, 2008
    Very good cast!!!!
  • Muktidaya
    December 16, 2008
    tepidity...boring.
  • VivaLaVida
    September 10, 2008
    it looks like its a good movie
  • BettyDavisEyes121
    May 22, 2008
    The Original was sooooooooooo good, let's hope this 1 is too!
  • ShimmerMePretty
    December 18, 2007
    Such a great cast !
    Really hope its good ..
    Could be a fantastic film :D
    Have to wait & see I guess lol

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