Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000)

Director:

Rodrigo García

Writer:

Rodrigo García (writer)

Release Date:

4 October 2000 (France)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Tagline:

A man only sees what a woman wants him to know.

Plot:

An anthology of five loosely connected stories dealing with a variety of very different women in dealing with their own life problems...

Plot Keywords:

Female Nudity | Bare Butt | Abortion | Blindness | Dating

Awards:

Nominated for Primetime Emmy. Another 1 win

Cast

Elpidia Carrillo	...	Carmen Alba
Glenn Close	...	Dr. Elaine Keener (segments "This is Dr. Keener" and "Fantasies about Rebecca")
Cameron Diaz	...	Carol Faber (segment "Love Waits For Kathy")
Calista Flockhart	...	Christine Taylor (segments "Goodnight Lilly, Goodnight Christine" and "This is Dr. Keener")
Kathy Baker	...	Rose (segments "Someone For Rose" and "Fantasies about Rebecca")
Amy Brenneman	...	Detective Kathy Faber (segment "Love Waits For Kathy")
Valeria Golino	...	Lilly (segment "Goodnight Lilly, Goodnight Christine")
Holly Hunter	...	Rebecca Waynon (segment "Fantasies About Rebecca")
Matt Craven	...	Walter (segments "Fantasies About Rebecca" and "Love Waits For Kathy")
Gregory Hines	...	Robert (segment "Fantasies About Rebecca")
Miguel Sandoval	...	Sam (segment "Fantasies About Rebecca")
Noah Fleiss	...	James aka Jay (segment "Someone For Rose")
Danny Woodburn	...	Albert (segments "Someone For Rose" and "Love Waits For Kathy")
Penelope Allen	...	Nancy (segment "Fantasies About Rebecca") (as Penny Allen)
Roma Maffia	...	Debbie (segment "Love Waits For Kathy")

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for mature thematic elements, sexual content and language.

Runtime:

109 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (DeLuxe)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR | Dolby Digital

Certification:

Finland:K-11 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Chile:14 | France:U | Germany:12 | Norway:7 | South Korea:18 | Spain:13 | UK:12 | USA:PG-13

Filming Locations:

Lacy Street Production Center - 2630 Lacy St., Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Avnet/Kerner Productions

Trivia:

A Braille book that Cameron Diaz's character reads is "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Which was written by the director's father Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Quotes:

Lilly: Look, the neighbors bought birds.
Christine Taylor: Canaries.
Lilly: How can you tell?
Christine Taylor: I can see them. Two males, probably.
Lilly: How do you know?
Christine Taylor: Only the males sing.

crazy title - beautiful film

Writer/director Rodrigo Garcia's feature film debut "Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her" might have a jarring, if too long, title, but the son of Gabriel Garcia Marquez presents a passionate work of cinematic fiction. The film presents several short stories; snapshots of women at a crossroads. One story is of a doctor who has lost sight of spiritual meaning in her life, and has elicited the assistance of a tarot card reader to help her find her way. This card reader may assist people with getting through the future with clarity, but she has one foot in the past as she watches her girlfriend succumb to a debilitating disease.

Each story intersects and overlaps the others in unique and interesting ways. The all-star cast of female talent bring to their deliberately under drawn characters some of their strongest performances, especially Calista Flockhart (at the time, fresh from "Ally McBeal") who provides her psychic character with fairy-like innocence, Kathy Baker who brings good-natured humorous curiosity to a role that could have quickly become a sociopath stalker, and Holly Hunter in an understated performance as a bank owner who contemplates the ramifications of motherhood on her life.