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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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 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
  • October 31, 2009
    !Comercial or Stupid! :|
  • October 30, 2009
    my mom had the romote so we watched this movie and i have to say its really funny and very sincere
  • October 28, 2009
    The movie was good ,the cast was good it was all around good.

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  • 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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