The Women

Name: The Women
Released: 2008-9-12
Cast: Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith

The Women

PG-13
1h 54m
2008

14%

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Meg Ryan stars as Mary Haines, a modern-day diva strutting her way through Manhattan society, dominating in a world of publishing, fashion and finance. Then Mary's world shatters when she faces an age-old dilemma: a cheating husband. As her life crumbles, her friends circle to support her. But in this group of high-powered modern women the rivalries soon surface as the claws come out and friendships are put to the ultimate test.

Director:

Diane English

Producer:

Victoria Pearman, Mick Jagger, Bill Johnson, Diane English, Jim Seibel, Joel Shukovsky, Bobby Sheng, James W. Skotchdopole, Bob Berney, Carolyn Blackwood

Writer:

Diane English

Cast:

Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith, Carrie Fisher, Cloris Leachman, Debi Mazar, Bette Midler, Candice Bergen

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

14%

Critics Consensus: The Women is a toothless remake of the 1939 classic, lacking the charm, wit and compelling protagonists of the original.

Reviews

Behind The Lens

Debbie Lynn Elias

[A] fresh, revitalized script that while it celebrates women, still contains no men, retains the core story of Mary Haines who discovers her husband is having an affair with perfume spritzer girl Crystal Allen, but has its own unique twist.

The problem isn't just the flat script by director and Murphy Brown creator Diane English. It's that this film's raison d'etre seems to be not to entertain, but to sell.

December 13, 2018

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Bold Life (Hendersonville, NC)

Marcianne Miller

Despite its good intentions and high hopes, The Women is not a good movie. It does, though, have plenty of nifty slices.

August 26, 2018

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Cleveland Plain Dealer

Julie Washington

The best fun in watching "The Women" is rating who still looks good and whose rose has faded (Carrie Fisher is almost unrecognizable), and ogling the frocks and heels.

Ryan, Bening, Pinkett Smith and Messing play an unlikely foursome of friends, whose origins are never explained, who have nothing in common and no chemistry to speak of.

June 25, 2017

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