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The Other Woman

Original title: Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
  • 20092009
  • RR
  • 1h 42m
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
19K
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Natalie Portman in The Other Woman (2009)
A newlywed woman (Portman) struggles with the loss of her newborn daughter, trying to form a bond with her precocious stepson, and content with the constant interferences of her husbandÂ’s jealous ex-wife, Carolyn (Kudrow).
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The story of a woman dealing with her infant daughter's death while trying to keep her marriage and her relationship with her stepson.The story of a woman dealing with her infant daughter's death while trying to keep her marriage and her relationship with her stepson.The story of a woman dealing with her infant daughter's death while trying to keep her marriage and her relationship with her stepson.
IMDb RATING
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19K
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    • Don Roos
    • Don Roos(screenplay)
    • Ayelet Waldman(novel "Love and Other Impossible Pursuits")
  • Stars
    • Natalie Portman
    • Scott Cohen
    • Lisa Kudrow
    • Don Roos
    • Don Roos(screenplay)
    • Ayelet Waldman(novel "Love and Other Impossible Pursuits")
  • Stars
    • Natalie Portman
    • Scott Cohen
    • Lisa Kudrow
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    • 50User reviews
    • 62Critic reviews
    • 37Metascore
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    Natalie Portman
    Natalie Portman
    • Emilia
    Scott Cohen
    Scott Cohen
    • Jack
    Lisa Kudrow
    Lisa Kudrow
    • Carolyn
    Charlie Tahan
    Charlie Tahan
    • William
    Lauren Ambrose
    Lauren Ambrose
    • Mindy
    Michael Cristofer
    Michael Cristofer
    • Sheldon
    Debra Monk
    Debra Monk
    • Laura
    Mona Fastvold
    Mona Fastvold
    • Sonia
    • (as Mona Lerche)
    Anthony Rapp
    Anthony Rapp
    • Simon
    Kendra Kassebaum
    • Sharlese
    Elizabeth Marvel
    Elizabeth Marvel
    • Pia
    Mary Joy
    Mary Joy
    • Marilyn
    Maria Dizzia
    Maria Dizzia
    • Jaime Brennan
    Ira Hawkins
    • Businessman
    Laura Odeh
    • Waitress
    Nicolette Hart
    Nicolette Hart
    • Stripper
    Dave Bradford
    • Cabby
    Daisy Tahan
    Daisy Tahan
    • Emma
      • Don Roos
      • Don Roos(screenplay)
      • Ayelet Waldman(novel "Love and Other Impossible Pursuits")
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    • Trivia
      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.
    • Goofs
      When Emilia and William are at the diner and Emilia asks the woman with the baby at another table how old the baby is, the woman answers, "Seven weeks; December 26." So the scene takes place in mid-February. When Emilia and William are shown leaving the diner in the next scene, the street trees in the background have mature green leaves, typical of summer. Deciduous street trees in New York City have no leaves in mid-February.
    • Quotes

      Emilia: Why is she dead?

    • Connections
      Featured in Ebert Presents: At the Movies: The Other Woman/Cold Weather/Louder Than a Bomb/The Housemaid/Sanctum (2011)
    • Soundtracks
      Sturm Von Kunststuffe
      Written by Jay Weigel

      Performed by Jay Weigel

      Courtesy of Carondelet Music Group, LLC

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    4/10
    television level common drama--cloying and sad and manipulative
    The Other Woman (2009)

    You might put up with this glaringly mediocre film by seeing how it deals with things that matter to ordinary people. Ordinary very rich people. It's about relationships, about wanting a child and having that go wrong, about taking care of someone else's child. It's about cheating and being in love and falling out of love. I mean, it's all good stuff.

    But the writing is routine to the point of deadening. The filming (photography) is either routine or it strives in little ways to be "interesting" by moving or gliding, but for no real reason except to keep it from being static. The acting is solid but unexceptional, including the main performance by a good Natalie Portman. The music is saccharine, at least against the backdrop of these events, as if trying to inflate them.

    Yes, this is an annoying movie if you pay attention to how it is made. If you are just watching for what happens, it's fine, but frankly just a bit boring. And besides Portman, the main star is, in some ways, the boy who is shuttled between parents and stepparents, and he's weirdly unsympathetic (on purpose). There are little moments that are meant to be intensely personal, and yet they seem like they're "meant" to do that. It doesn't emerge from events, or from character.

    Ugh. I know many people will see this and like a lot of it. Good! It's not on the surface too bad, I know that. But the more I watched the more it got under my skin like lice.
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    • Sep 8, 2013

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    • Release date
      • October 28, 2010 (Russia)
      • United States
      • Official site (Japan)
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production companies
      • Incentive Filmed Entertainment
      • Handsomecharlie Films
      • Is or Isn't Entertainment
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    • 1 hour 42 minutes
      • Color
      • Dolby Digital

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