The Women (2008/I)

User Rating:

4.8/10   

Director:

Diane English

Writers (WGA):

Diane English (screenplay)
Clare Boothe Luce (play)

Release Date:

12 September 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Tagline:

It's all about...

Plot:

A wealthy New Yorker leaves her cheating husband and bonds with other society women at a resort.

Plot Keywords:

Fashion | Divorce | Fashion Show | Beauty Salon | Female Bonding

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Meg Ryan	...	Mary Haines
Annette Bening	...	Sylvia Fowler
Eva Mendes	...	Crystal Allen
Debra Messing	...	Edie Cohen
Jada Pinkett Smith	...	Alex Fisher
Bette Midler	...	Leah Miller
Candice Bergen	...	Catherine Frazier
Carrie Fisher	...	Bailey Smith
Cloris Leachman	...	Maggie
Debi Mazar	...	Tanya
India Ennenga	...	Molly Haines
Natasha Alam	...	Natasha
Ana Gasteyer	...	Pat
Joanna Gleason	...	Barbara Delacorte
Tilly Scott Pedersen	...	Uta

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for sex-related material, language, some drug use and brief smoking.

Runtime:

114 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

USA:PG-13 (certificate #44249) | Finland:K-11 | Ireland:15A | UK:12A | Canada:14A (Ontario) | Netherlands:AL | Canada:G (Québec) | Canada:PG (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba) | Australia:PG | South Korea:15 | Argentina:13 | Philippines:PG-13 (MTRCB) | Hong Kong:IIB | Germany:o.Al. (f) | Portugal:M/12 | Czech Republic:12 | Singapore:NC-16 | Taiwan:GP | New Zealand:PG | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | Mexico:B

Filming Locations:

Bosse Sports - 141 Boston Post Road, Sudbury, Massachusetts, USA

Company:

Picturehouse Entertainment

Trivia:

Tanya the manicurist (Debi Mazar) talks about meeting Madonna. Mazar and Madonna are long-time friends; Mazar appeared in four Madonna music videos: "True Blue" and "Papa Don't Preach" (1986), "Deeper and Deeper" (1992) and "Music" (2000).

Goofs:

Continuity: When Mary confronts Crystal in the lingerie changing room, Crystal's champagne glass magically flies from hand to hand during cuts of the scene.

Quotes:

Catherine Frazier: Don't be bitter. It leads to Botox.

Movie Connections:

References Star Wars (1977)

Soundtrack:

Everything Good Goes Away

No lessons learned

As a Spanish tourist in Los Angeles and a fanatic movie lover I committed a terrible mistake. I went to see "The Women" The remake of one of my all time favorites. I've seen the original many many times, in fact I own it. My rushing to see the remake was based on Diane English, the woman responsible for "Murphy Brown" My though was: how bad can it be? She must know what she's doing. Well, I don't know what to say. I don't understand what happened. The Botoxed women is a rather depressing affair. Meg Ryan or whoever played Mary - she looked a bit like a grotesque version of Meg Ryan...another actress perhaps wearing a Meg Ryan mask - she doesn't bring to the character nothing of what Norma Shearer did in 1939. The new one is a tired, unconvincing prototype of what has become a farce within a farce. The "friends" Annette Bening, Debra Messing, Jada Pinket Smith are as disconnected as anything I've ever seen and if this wasn't enough: Eva Mendes as Crystal, the character created by Joan Crawford in one of her best and funniest performances. Eva Mendes's casting is really the poster sign for how wrong, how ill conceived this commercial attempt turned up. I didn't give it a 1 out respect for Candice Bergen and Cloris Leachman