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The Other Woman
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Cast
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Jack
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| Lisa Kudrow | ... |
Carolyn
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Mindy
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Sheldon
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Laura
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Sonia
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Simon
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Kendra Kassebaum | ... |
Sharlese
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Pia
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Marilyn
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Jaime Brennan
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Laura Odeh | ... |
Waitress
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In Manhattan, twenty-two year-old Harvard lawyer Emilia Greenleaf has a crush on her boss, Jack Woolf, and they have an affair. Jack's marriage is a sham but his son, William, is his pride and joy. Emilia soon discovers she's pregnant, and Jack divorces his wife, Carolyn, in order to marry her. His son is poisoned against the partnership by his mother, and resented by his stepmother. Emilia, who has issues with her womanizer father, delivers Isabel but the baby dies. The marriage begins to suffer and William unexpectedly steps in to help. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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stepmother | sids | central park manhattan new york city | ice skating | manhattan new york city |Taglines:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
28 October 2010 (Russia) See more »Also Known As:
17 Photos of Isabel See more »Box Office
Opening Weekend:
$6,224 (USA) (4 February 2011)Gross:
$20,585 (USA) (25 February 2011)Company Credits
Production Co:
Incentive Filmed Entertainment, Handsomecharlie Films, Is or Isn't Entertainment See more »
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Written by Stuart Murdoch
Performed by Belle & Sebastian
Cava Sound Workshops, Glasgow
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When Emilia and William are sitting in the park, William says "If you go to Collegiate, you can go to Harvard," Emilia responds "Harvard sucks." Natalie Portman, who plays Emilia, attended Harvard. See more »Goofs
Williams drawing from the middle of the movie is a different one from the one showed at the end of the movie. You can clearly see that drawn William on the first drawing is more sad than the William in the other drawing. See more »Soundtracks
"Waiting for the Moon to Rise"Written by Stuart Murdoch
Performed by Belle & Sebastian
Cava Sound Workshops, Glasgow
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"The Other Woman" or "Love and Other Impossible Pursuits" as it is called, is labeled as a comedy and drama? Comedy? Are you kidding me? The movie is pretty far from being funny. A drama, yes. But comedy? No way...
The story told in the movie is about Emilia having to come to terms with being the stepmother to William, a rather unique child. But at the same time she is struggling with the trauma of having lost her child, a rocky marriage to Jack and having to take the verbal beatings of his ex-wife Carolyne. The movie deals with a lot of good subjects, matters that are close to heart and real life. However, sadly enough, it never really fully delves into these matters, it is just superficially touched. And that is a terrible shame, because the movie had potential to become a very touchy and heartfelt movie. Instead it just came out as a superficial, shallow movie that wanted too much but delivered too little.
As for the cast in the movie, well they had some really good names on the list, lots of good actors and actresses. Natalie Portman portrays Emilia in a very good way, and you do buy into her performance, except for the crying scenes, they were just not sinking in, they didn't work at all. Lisa Kudrow did a good job as Carolyne (Jack's ex-wife), however, Kudrow is still stuck with the Phoebe Buffay image, so it was casting a big shadow over her, unfortunately. Charlie Tahan did a marvelous job in portraying the troubled boy William. And he was perhaps the most memorable of all in the movie.
This movie had potential to be great, but it failed to deliver, and that was a shame. When the movie was over, I was left with a thought saying "was that really it?". I was disappointed in how the movie dealt with the deep matters that were part of the storyline. And as such, I am only rating the movie a 4 out of 10. The superficial nature of the movie drags it way down, but the solid performances of the cast manages to make the movie bearable to sit through.
Sadly, this movie was not all it could have been...