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The Women

Meg Ryan, Eva Mendes, Jada Pinkett Smith, Carrie Fisher, Annette Bening

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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  • Redlats
    October 5, 2009
    Redlats
    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.
  • xXxHarleyxQuinnxXx
    March 3, 2009
    xXxHarleyxQuinnxXx
    ok the person that got the most laughs from me was The Old Maid! housekeeper/ whatever! she was pretty good!
  • gatorgirl13
    January 12, 2009
    gatorgirl13
    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.
  • mwilliams078
    January 2, 2009
    mwilliams078
    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.
  • StaisilD
    December 29, 2008
    StaisilD
    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.
  • farfalla87
    December 30, 2009
    farfalla87
    It's funny I liked it...
  • dyad44
    December 30, 2009
    dyad44
    This movie is a remake of the 1939 film of the same name, which I haven't actually seen. Most of the critics were saying that the remake is practically an insult to the original, which was apparently clever and well written. Bearing in mind that I haven't seen the original, I obv...( read more)iously can't compare the two, but that just goes to show that even if you haven't seen the original, it still falls flat on its arse.

    The blame partly goes to the casting. It is sad to know that most of the actresses in this film are good, but they have subjected themselves to such a god-awful movie. Meg Ryan can actually act, but her face was so plastic that it could barely produce emotions. There's even a cringe-worthy scene where she badmouths her mother for getting plastic surgery, when anyone with eyes can tell that she herself is as plastic as a Barbie doll.

    Annette Benning's performance was painful in this movie which is such a shame, because she is usually a brilliant actress. Debra Messing (apart from the parts where she looks like a blow-up doll) was tolerable up until the giving birth scene, where the writer/director Diane English apparently thinks it's funny when women shout continuously like car horns. Newsflash; its not.

    The only good performances in the film were probably Eva Mendes and Jada-Pinkett Smith, but I still had problems with their characters. Mendes is a great actress, but her character seemed like a two-dimensional, heartless villain. Pinket-Smith was also good and Diane English has even made an attempt to modernise the story more by making her character a lesbian. The only problem was that throughout the beginning of the film, her character seems to imply that a person's sexual orientation is a choice. In the real world, sexual orientation is a deep, complex part of human biology, not something you can change continuously like a pair of shoes. Read a fucking book!

    Apart from the horribly miscast performances, the direction and screenplay was disasterous and who is to blame? Diane English. One of the biggest problems with her writing/direcing was the whole idea of putting no men in the film until the end. The idea sounds okay in theory, but it doesn't work in practice. Most particularly, we never ever see the main girl's husband. We don't hear his voice and we don't even see a photo of him. Seeing as Meg Ryan's character forgives him in the end, how the hell are we supposed to sympathise with the bastard if we never even see him?

    Another problem with English's writing was the awful dialogue and screenplay in general. There are parts when some of the characters state the obvious and other parts where the dialogue is just unecessary and forgettable. This is amateur writing! Even I know that and I don't have a writing degree! I think the most cringe-worthy scene with the bad dialogue was the one in which Meg Ryan's insecure daughter is talking about how she feels fat and wants to look like the models in magazines. Any good screenwriter would have implied that instead of having the character say word for word what's on their mind. I kid you not, the girl actually says something along the lines of, "I feel fat. I'm trying to look like those supermodels in magazines." Clearly, English doesn't know the meaning of subtlety.

    With mistakes like this, it just makes me wonder how and why this movie was even pitched. Why did anyone want to sign on for it? Why did anyone want to be associated with it? It was junk. Bad screenplay, detestible characters and no redeeming qualities. It was a colossal mess and in the words of Roger Ebert, "I hated this movie. Hated, hated, hated, hated, hated this movie."
  • fernandomoss
    December 18, 2009
    fernandomoss
    Sucks big big time... Nothing like the original...
  • Marischa2
    December 18, 2009
    Marischa2
    more of a drama film than any other.
  • F0XyF0x
    December 16, 2009
    F0XyF0x
    There was NO men in the movie (we don't know about the dog though!).. and strange as that might seem, I never really missed the men.
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