The Women
2008 Directed by Diane English
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The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-wedded Mary Haines finds her marriage in trouble when shop girl Crystal Allen gets her hooks into Mary's man.
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We've all seen Raging Bull, Citizen Kane, Psycho and The Godfather, but sometimes, a film comes along that makes everything we know about cinema seem trite and insignificant. The Women is just such a film.
Never has a roller coaster of drama been so powerful, uplifting and beautiful. Meg Ryan puts Jack Nicholson and Heath Ledger to shame as The joker and elsewhere Jada Pinkett Smith is a tour de force as the additional black person.
I just did a bit of a poo watching this. Inspirational.
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So confident in its message (women are great, yah?) that it decides it is wise not to put a man on screen. At all. Also spends a long time preaching that every woman is beautiful, deciding to prove this by ending with a catwalk show, skinny models included. Vile. More on the site.
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This movie is the equivalent of someone vomiting in your lap. A curse on Diane English and everyone involved in this horrible remake of one of the great movies (and plays) of our times. I almost swallowed my tongue watching the ass-tastic female stereotypes. WOMEN LIKE SHOES! AND YOGA!! AND MANICURES AND GOSSIP!!! All involved should be deeply ashamed.
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Considering it doesn't have one guy in the cast, I actually didn't see what all the hate was about. It is what it is. About average.
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Shrill and silly.
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This feels like a more PC/realistics SATC (there are parents, multiple ethnicities, children with problems). Debra Messing is always a joy but her character is little more than a plot point, and the film is always a bit more fun when Jada Pinkett Smith is on as a lesbian who can well understand how Eva Mendes can ensnare a married man.
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We've all seen Raging Bull, Citizen Kane, Psycho and The Godfather, but sometimes, a film comes along that makes everything we know about cinema seem trite and insignificant. The Women is just such a film.
Never has a roller coaster of drama been so powerful, uplifting and beautiful. Meg Ryan puts Jack Nicholson and Heath Ledger to shame as The joker and elsewhere Jada Pinkett Smith is a tour de force as the additional black person.
I just did a bit of a poo watching this. Inspirational.
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At times it was funny, at times it was sad. This is a coming of middle age movie about a group of women who think they have the perfect life until they all hit a speed bump in their lives. Husband cheats, losing a job, getting pregnant, etc. And of course, if you throw a spicy latina in the mix you get a movie that is entertaining, although the characters really did not get that developed. I think the highlight of the movie was Jada Pinkett Smith who played a damn good lesbian (it was believable at times).
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So confident in its message (women are great, yah?) that it decides it is wise not to put a man on screen. At all. Also spends a long time preaching that every woman is beautiful, deciding to prove this by ending with a catwalk show, skinny models included. Vile. More on the site.