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The Women (I) (2008)

PG_13  114 min  -  Comedy | Drama   -  12 September 2008 (USA)
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Ratings: 4.8/10 from 9,547 users   Metascore: 27/100 
Reviews: 117 user | 116 critic | 32 from Metacritic.com

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

Director:

Diane English

Writers:

Diane English (screenplay), Clare Boothe Luce (play), and 2 more credits »
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The Women -- This is the theatrical trailer for The Women, directed by Diane English. The Women -- Wealthy Mary Haines is unaware her husband is having an affair with shopgirl Crystal Allen. Sylvia Fowler and Edith Potter discover this from a manicurist and arrange for Mary to hear the gossip... The Women -- Open-ended Trailer from Warner Bros.
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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Meg Ryan ...
Annette Bening ...
Eva Mendes ...
Debra Messing ...
Jada Pinkett Smith ...
Bette Midler ...
Candice Bergen ...
Carrie Fisher ...
Cloris Leachman ...
Debi Mazar ...
India Ennenga ...
Jill Flint ...
Ana Gasteyer ...
Pat
Joanna Gleason ...
Barbara
Tilly Scott Pedersen ...
Uta
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Storyline

Based on a very clever comedy by Claire Booth, wife of Time Publisher Henry Luce and later Ambassador to Italy. One of the surprises was an all-woman cast, novel in the 1930's. And although there were no men in the cast, most of the dialog was about them. The story is rather thin and depended on the fact that divorce, in the 1930's, was not only difficult but almost impossible in New York. Mrs. Stephen Haynes learns that her husband is seeing a salesgirl at Saks, and reluctantly divorces him, abetted by her friends, all of whom have romantic problems of their own. In the 1930's New York women who could afford it went to Nevada, where residency could be established quickly and divorce was relatively easy. The 1939 film, starring Norma Shearer, Paulette Goddard, Rosalind Russell, and Joan Crawford, was a hit. This one, with an even better looking cast, is definitely not, largely because someone tried to move a 1930's situation comedy into the present. Written by jojo.acapulco  

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Plot Keywords:

Divorce | New York | Beauty Salon | Fashion | Fashion Show  | See more »

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama

Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for sex-related material, language, some drug use and brief smoking See all certifications »

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

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Also Known As:

Todo sobre las mujeres See more »

Box Office

Budget:

$16,500,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$10,115,121 (USA) (14 September 2008) (2962 Screens)

Gross:

$48,744,911 (Worldwide) (8 March 2009)
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Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1
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Trivia

In The Women the only scene in color was the fashion show sequence. In this version the fashion show begins with all-black and white clothes, and the scene before it takes place in a black-and-white room. See more »

Goofs

Continuity: In the kitchen scene while Meg Ryan is eating the butter with the chocolate, the sugar bowls lid is shown on and off the sugar bowl without her touching it. See more »

Quotes

Mary Haines: [sees her daughter burning tampons] What is she doing?
Maggie: Well, she says she doesn't want to be a woman.
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Connections

Referenced in "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: Episode #7.136" (2009) See more »

Soundtracks

"Highway 14"
Written by Alan Pasqua
Performed by Alan Pasqua
Courtesy of Alan Pasqua/Cryptogramophone See more »