The Women (2008/I)

Director:

Diane English

Writers (WGA):

Diane English (screenplay)
Clare Boothe Luce (play)

Release Date:

12 September 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Tagline:

It's all about...

Plot:

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

Plot Keywords:

Divorce | Fashion Show | Beauty Salon | Fashion | Stirrups

Awards:

2 nominations

US TV Schedule:

Sat. Jan. 2

9:30 AM

MAX

Cast

Meg Ryan	...	Mary Haines
Annette Bening	...	Sylvia 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
Natasha Alam	...	Natasha
Ana Gasteyer	...	Pat
Joanna Gleason	...	Barbara Delacorte
Tilly Scott Pedersen	...	Uta

Also Known As:

Todo sobre las mujeres (Argentina) (Mexico) (Peru) [es]
Женщины (Russia) [ru]
Femmes (Canada: French title) [fr]
Gynaikes (Greece) [el]
Kadinlar (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Kobiety (Poland) (poster title) [pl]
Mulheres - O Sexo Forte (Brazil) [pt]
Mulheres! (Portugal) [pt]
Naised (Estonia) [et]
Naiset (Finland) [fi]
The Women - Von großen und kleinen Affären (Germany) [de]
Zeny (Czech Republic) [cs]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for sex-related material, language, some drug use and brief smoking.

Runtime:

114 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

USA:PG-13 (certificate #44249) | Finland:K-11 | Ireland:15A | UK:12A | Canada:14A (Ontario) | Netherlands:AL | Canada:G (Québec) | Canada:PG (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba) | Australia:PG | South Korea:15 | Argentina:13 | Philippines:PG-13 (MTRCB) | Hong Kong:IIB | Germany:o.Al. (f) | Portugal:M/12 | Czech Republic:12 | Singapore:NC-16 | Taiwan:GP | New Zealand:PG | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | Mexico:B | Singapore:M18 (DVD rating) | Peru:14

Filming Locations:

Bosse Sports - 141 Boston Post Road, Sudbury, Massachusetts, USA

Company:

Picturehouse Entertainment

Trivia:

The painting in the restaurant scene features Courtney Love and Anna Nicole Smith.

Goofs:

Continuity: During the breakfast scene with Meg Ryan's character eating butter, a gold wrapper moves two to three times during the scene from the corner of the place mat to the center of the place mat.

Quotes:

Catherine Frazier: It feels like someone kicked you in the stomach, feels like your heart stopped beating, feels like that dream you know the one when you are falling and you want so desperately to wake up before you hit the ground but its all out of your control, you cant trust anything anymore, no one is who they say they are, your life is changed forever, and the only thing to come out of the whole ugly experience is no one will be able to break your heart like that again.

Movie Connections:

References Star Wars (1977)

Soundtrack:

You don't know how it feels

Badly Lit Women And Other Problems

Insane really. Even if you haven't seen the original George Cukor movie with Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Paulette Goddard, Joan Fontaine and a cast of a thousand other stars you may dismiss this forced, politically correct, depressing comedy. Depressing for many different reasons. Meg Ryan for one. What has she done to herself? Her face can hardly move. That alone puts her miles away from Norma Shearer. Annette Bening should be suing the DP and Debra Messing, what the hell was she doing here? Actresses with no connection in the public's subconscious trying to pass for friends, totally unconvincingly. Eva Mendes in the Joan Crawford part is an outrageous piece of miscasting. What a terrible idea! Her character is like a trans-gender performer without any taste or subtlety. Bizarre to think that a woman adapted and directed this women.The only positive things I can mention are a short but very funny appearance by Bette Midler and Cloris Leachman as the housekeeper.