8 ½ Women

19991999
RR
1h 58min

8 ½ Women (1999)

Following the death of a mother, a father and son open up a brothel in their Genevan estate after watching 8½ (1963).Following the death of a mother, a father and son open up a brothel in their Genevan estate after watching 8½ (1963).Following the death of a mother, a father and son open up a brothel in their Genevan estate after watching 8½ (1963).

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Awards
- 2 nominations

8 ½ Women (1999)

8 ½ Women (1999)

8 ½ Women (1999)

8 ½ Women (1999)

8 ½ Women (1999)

8 ½ Women (1999)

Elizabeth Berrington and Myriam Muller in 8 ½ Women (1999)

Matthew Delamere and Polly Walker in 8 ½ Women (1999)

Barbara Sarafian in 8 ½ Women (1999)

Toni Collette in 8 ½ Women (1999)

Kirina Mano in 8 ½ Women (1999)

Matthew Delamere, John Standing, and Vivian Wu in 8 ½ Women (1999)

After his wife dies, fifty-five-year-old businessman Philip Emmenthal (Sir John Standing), at the prompting of his playboy son Storey (Matthew Delamere), populates his Geneva villa with eight and a half concubines. Three are from Kyoto, Japan, where Storey manages Pachinco palaces. Each has a distinctive personality: a nun, a child bearer, a gambler, a student of Kabuki, a horsewoman with a pet pig, and a maid. Philip throws off his strait-laced and repressed attitudes, immersing himself in pleasure. After about a year, the women begin to assert their own power. Side adventures pre-figure the household's break-up, and the women depart in one way or another, one at at time. Philip's fate is in the hands of Palmira (Polly Walker), his favorite. —<jhailey@hotmail.com>

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Taglines
- If every man thinks of sex once every nine minutes, what does he think of the other eight?
Genres
- Comedy
- Drama
Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
- Rated R for strong sexual content including dialogue and pervasive nudity
Parents guide

Trivia
All entries contain spoilers

Quotes
Philip Emmenthal: How many directors do you think use films to fulfill their sexual fantasies?
Storey Emmenthal: Most of them, I think.

Connections
Features 8½ (1963)

Soundtracks
Sosaku Yoshiwara
(Kabuki music)
Written by Hirokazu Sugiura

Top review

And I usually love Greenaway

It's unfortunate, really, that Greenaway had to come off Pillow Book to make this movie. I had been looking forward to it for a while and it finally opened in Texas yesterday.

It's with great remorse that I write that this movie was tremendously bad. It was sort of like a Brahms concerto--nary a climactic scene in sight.

The acting was stilted (Vivian Wu, the only actress Greenaway has ever used twice, was unfortunately not used well). The scenes and lighting and cinematography were lush, as is to be expected from this director. But nearly everything else about this movie was ponderous. It was definitely long enough for there to have been an adequately developed story/character/plot/anything, but there was none. This movie did nothing. It broached nothing. It made no point. Maybe it'll get better with age and with more in-depth viewing, but, if that's the case, save your eight dollars and see it on video.

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spirochaete
Jun 24, 2000

Gross US & Canada
- $424,123
Opening weekend US & Canada
- $92,000
- May 29, 2000
Gross worldwide
- $437,568

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Runtime
- 1h 58min
Color
- Color
Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1

8 ½ Women (1999)

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