SummaryThe Women is a comedy about contemporary womanhood and the power of female relationships. Based on George Cukor’s 1939 film and Clare Boothe Luce’s 1936 stage play, The Women whisks us into a busy pocket of Manhattan society, where the publishing, fashion and finance industries play. At the center of the tale is Mary Haines, a thoroughly modern... Read More
Directed By:Diane English
Written By:Diane English, Clare Boothe Luce, Anita Loos, Jane Murfin
The Women
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Generally Unfavorable
27
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
13% Positive
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25% Mixed
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75
It's intermittently amusing, and Bening actually gives a performance instead of a star turn, but the claws should have been sharper.
50
Very earnest, often engaging, but not quite as much of a pleasure as the original.
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7 Ratings
Dec 27, 2014
7
" A definitely laugh-out movie" ok to be honest i did not see 1939 version of the women, but this one has funny laugh out moments that Diane English gives characters the best lines in this movie. 'The Women' has "women" jokes a-lot of them, but its ok this movie is mean't for women. i get it, Meg Ryan is in this movie along with Annette Bening, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith all of these women give good with great humor, also good performances. Grade B+
Feb 13, 2012
3
How can there be so many talented actresses partake in such awful nonsense is beyond me. This was a terrible movie and thirty minutes into it I had no other decision but to turn it off. I tried watching it again to finish the movie but 'The Women' was unwatchable. There was no chemistry between the actresses. For instance, Meg Ryan's character Mary Haines would be furious if she saw the hussy who was sleeping with her husband at the lingerie store where she shops at. What should have been the scene of the movie turned out to be a complete dud as Meg Ryan and Evan Mendes were awkward in their dialogue with one another insulting one another. I liked Debra Messing in Ned & Stacey, The Starter Wife and Will & Grace but this was truly terrible. Take a pass on this one.
40
Becomes unfocused as it stumbles over all the points it wants to make.
38
It's a high-powered cast, but it has painfully little to work with, apart from widely varying humor.
25
A total disaster.
20
The whole vibe is so shrill and frantic that the truly accomplished actresses, like Bening and Bergen, are left to flounder. The less nuanced ones -- that would be you, Debra Messing -- are, to use the idiom of the movie, as pleasant to watch as a bikini wax is to feel.
0
One of the worst movies I've ever seen.
Dec 22, 2012
2
The Women is ultra ignorant of the fact that it is a failure in cinematic history. Actually, this is one of those movies that those involved pretended to have nothing to do with it. It's a waste of space, I assure you.
Production Company:
- Picturehouse
- Scion Films
- Inferno Distribution
- Jagged Films
- New Line Cinema
- Shukovsky English Entertainment
Release Date:Sep 12, 2008
Duration:1 h 54 m
Rating:PG-13
Tagline:It's all about...
Awards
Alliance of Women Film Journalists
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
AARP Movies for Grownups Awards
• 2 Nominations
Bambi Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
