Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Meg Ryan | ... | Mary Haines | |
Annette Bening | ... | Sylvie 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 | |
Jill Flint | ... | Annie | |
Ana Gasteyer | ... | Pat | |
Joanna Gleason | ... | Barbara | |
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Tilly Scott Pedersen | ... | Uta |
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
To say I was disappointed is an understatement. An amateur film made by professionals. I was about to leave the theater in two or three occasions (something I've never done)I was stopped by Cloris Leachman really. She rings true, the only one I should say. This new women are less modern than the George Cukor women of the 30's. This ones are "acting" for us trying to be with it but their "conflict" is exactly the same as it has always been, in movies anyway. The fun of the original was based on a crisp, vitriolic and very funny script. A masterful direction and an unrepeatable cast. All the elements that are missing here. TV actresses mingling with models and Oscar nominees/winners. There wasn't anything organic about it. The whole thing felt like a put on, improvised in the moment without a clear objective. 2/10