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List Price: $27.98 | | Label: WARNER HOME VIDEO
Salesrank: 8155
Released: October 30, 2007 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Aspiring writer Carter Webb has just been dumped by his true love, Sophia. Heartbroken and depressed, Carter escapes Los Angeles to suburban Michigan to care for his ailing grandmother and to work on a book he has always wanted to write. Soon after his arrival, Carter stumbles into the lives of the family living directly across the street: Sarah Hardwicke, and her daughters, Paige and Lucy. His relationships with all of these women help Carter discover that what felt like an end was only just the beginning of something else...
Description of In the Land of Women:
Jon Kasdan's directorial debut, In the Land of Women, is a touching romantic comedy portraying the love quandaries of a hip, Hollywood twenty-something to show how his fast-paced life as a porn screenwriter encourages the jaded attitude at the root of his angst. Carter Webb (Adam Brody) hangs out in a recognizable Los Feliz cafe, where in the opening scene he is dumped by his sultry Gap-model girlfriend. In hopes of salvaging his last ounce of creativity to pen a real story, Carter escapes to peaceful, suburban Michigan to care for his grandmother, Phyllis (Olympia Dukakis). Phyllis' death obsession, however, drives him outdoors, where he befriends neighbor Sarah Hardwicke (Meg Ryan) and her two daughters, Lucy (Kristen Stewart) and Paige (Mackenzie Vega). Bonding with both the more mature Sarah, sick with breast cancer, and the discombobulated teen Lucy, Carter redefines love with his new understanding of what it means to think about things other than one's self. Bright, crisp color and fairly natural lighting lends the film a contemporary feel, and the script is surprisingly unsentimental. Ryan's performance--less saccharine than some previous--along with Brody's wry character and Dukakis as a bitter dying woman, help the film to avoid corny melodrama so common to the genre. Unfortunately, the ending is too neatly tied up, but not enough to destroy what emotional poignancy the film has generated. Ultimately a critique of the vacant, superficial lifestyle that a life in Hollywood perpetuates, In the Land of Women leaves one wondering whether Kasdan's attraction to the script wasn't based on his own Los Angeles experiences. —Trinie Dalton
In the Land of Women Reviews:
Surprisingly Good 
2009-12-22 - The latest of my wife's movies that I watched with her turned out to be a surprisingly good picture that kept me guessing all the way through.
Adam Brody plays a soft core porn writer who goes home to take care of his grandmother just after his girl dumps him. He find an Alzheimer ready Olympia Dukakis, a Meg Ryan dealing with multiple crises and her daughter who is having a series of crises of her own.
In a complete reversal from her (my wife's) last movie But I'm a Cheerleader the characters do not follow any of the pre-defined routes that one is conditioned to expect in this pictures. Every time I was ready for an event something totally different happens. The only character that was a bit cliched was the youngest daughter who had much too much wisdom and even so it isn't as overdone as one might expect.
None of the performances are spectacular but all of them are good. A lot of the credit goes to writer director Jon Kasdan who gives them material that provides enough drama to make a story and enough comedy to keep the picture flowing. So have no fear, if your wife asked you to sit down with this one you won't be bored.
Wonderful Story of Tough Times
2009-10-05 - I had forgotten that I had watched this movie, but with Amazon's suggestion for me to purchase it, I remembered how much I really loved "In the Land of Women".
It's about young man Carter (Adam Brody who gives an awesome performance) who moves from LA to Michigan to live with his funny and loveable Grandmother. While he is dealing with change of scenery and helping Grandma survive, he meets across the street neighbors Lucy, Paige and Sarah(Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Vega and thier mom Meg Ryan). He helps them deal with their emotional trauma and Sarah's life threatening disease which is tearing apart her family (including her confused and distraught husband).
This is another amazing and fulfilling performance from Meg Ryan- as well as Kristen Stewart does a tremendous job of being the troubled, but struggling to understand teenager.
It's about dealing with trauma, learning to move on, learning who you are, what you can take, who can deal and who can't. It is a really wonderful story and so well worth the watch. Tear jerker at times, laugh reel at times... I am very impressed with it.
In the land of women
2009-09-20 - Great movie. The grandmother makes it worth watching. I enjoyed all the characters and what they brought to the movie. It made me laugh, cry and think about what it would really feel like to be any of them. Enjoy!
Pretty good
2009-06-11 - I love this movie. It's really good and the audience grows to care about the characters. The only problem I had with it was the lack of bonus features. Bonus features are the thing I look forward to most in a DVD, especially if I've already seen the movie. Sadly, this DVD didn't have ANY extras, but was still worth the purchase. All the actors are great in this movie.
Not Very Pleased 
2009-04-13 - The product looked boot-legged. The covering to the product looked like it was printed off the computer. I guess with paying only about $2 for it, I cannot complain. I just wish that it was the original covering and disk.
