The Women (2008 film)
- 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
- Jill Flint: Annie
- Ana Gasteyer: Pat
- Joanna Gleason: Barbara Delacorte
- Tilly Scott Pedersen: Uta
The Women is an American comedy film from 2008, while a remake of the eponymous comedy by George Cukor from the year 1939. Directed by Diane English, who also wrote the screenplay and co-produced the film.
Action
The fashion designer Mary Haines is married to a wealthy financial entrepreneur and has a 11- year-old daughter. Her husband begins an affair with the perfume saleswoman Crystal Allen. Her best friend, the editor Sylvia Fowler, learns of the affair, which she hides initially before Mary. This learns the truth only by chance.
Haines separates from her husband and is initially devastated, but after some time, she begins to realize her dream of his own, successful fashion collection. Finally, it also wins her husband back.
Reviews
Peter Debruge wrote in the journal Variety of 11 September 2008, English will do little to adapt the story to modern times. You try to create a similar well-being feeling like the movies by Nancy Meyers and Nora Ephron. Many behaviors shown would appear unnatural; some gags would not work. Ryan versprühe similar charm as in the comedy When Harry Met Sally.
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun - Times on 11 September 2008, the movie show some actresses who he admired, in top form. The movie was not great - he was to be melodramatic and leg hold too many dialogs. However, it offers well-written, well-executed and well-played conversation.
Background
The film was made under other in New York City, Boston, and in some other places in Massachusetts and Connecticut. His cost of production was estimated at 16.5 million U.S. dollars. The film opened in the U.S. and in British cinemas on 12 September 2008. The German theatrical release was on 11 December 2008. Theaters in the United States, the film grossed about 26.7 million U.S. dollars. A feature of The Women is that the entire film is found no male person, even when walking through the city all the portraits and sculptures of men were replaced by depictions of women. An exception is one of the last scenes of the film, her fifth child, a boy, brings in the Edie to the world.