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List Price: $19.96 | | Label: New Line Home Video
Salesrank: 2708
Released: December 19, 2008 |
| Our Price: $3.50 |
| Used Price: $1.80 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Mothers, daughters, wives, friends: These are the women of The Women. Based on Clare Boothe Luce's Broadway success and the hit 1939 movie, this sparkling update (from Murphy Brown creator Diane English) set in Manhattan and featuring an all-star, all-female cast says a lot about what it means to be today's woman and all of it's funny! The story starts with beautiful, smart, accomplished Mary Haines (Meg Ryan) discovering her husband is cheating on her. It's a time when friends are needed, so Mary's gal pals (Annette Bening, Jada Pinkett Smith and Debra Messing) and mother (Candice Bergen) rally round with advice, cocktails and shopping. The Wife vs. the Other Woman (Eva Mendes): Sharpen your claws for a timeless and wonderfully witty battle.
Description of The Women:
For fans of some of America's finest actresses, seeing a film with even one of the cast members of The Women would be a treat. But this remake of George Cukor's famed girl-trouble ensemble film features Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Jada Pinkett Smith, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Cloris Leachman, Bette Midler, Carrie Fisher, Joanna Gleason, and Candice Bergen--whew!--making it a film that fans of these terrifically talented women can savor. The remake may not have the cat-itude or camp factor of the original, but so what? The cast's chemistry really shines; friendship is thicker than water, it turns out--even stronger than the ties that bind women to their men. Ryan is the good-girl Mary Haines, whose husband, she and her friends learn, is cheating on her with the stunning femme fatale Crystal (Mendes, in the Joan Crawford role)--"a spritzer" at the perfume counter. Quelle horreur! The other women rally around the hapless Mary, staging interventions, offering snappy advice, and plotting battles on behalf of their friend. But it turns out that Ryan's Mary isn't quite as fragile as she seems. Gimlets and girl talk--lots of both--go a long way toward getting our heroine through her crisis, and onto a new stage in her life that surprises her husband and more than one of her pals. And the laughs by the appearances of Midler and Bergen, especially, are worth watching the whole film for. --A.T. Hurley
The Women Reviews:
Skip it 
2009-11-10 - Well, with this terrific cast, I had my hopes up, the bad reviews notwithstanding, but boy, was I wrong. What a disaster from start to finish, with very contrived dialogue, poor direction and the actors looking like they were struggling to make the best of bad material. I was shocked that Diane English, a very talented and funny writer was behind this travesty. Definitely a waste of time - skip it!
A clever script that stranded in the middle of nowhere! 
2009-11-06 - Diane English picked up and rearranged the missing pieces of the romantic comedy genre, based on the multidimensional affective feminine universe. But smartly she focuses her whole attention around seven well defined characters; the first three are of course Meg Ryan as the devoted wife always trying to shine as human being. But living into a happy bubble (living in a beautiful home at Connecticut, married with a successful executive and supported by her best friend (Annette Bening) - the second main character - she will have to have to face the world when she hits the bottom at the moment she realizes her husband cheats her with the alluring Eva Mendes. The third main character is her mother (the lovable and still beautiful Candice Bergen) who will support her according her particular style, and finally we have Ryan's daughter a girl who's living the hard transition of the adolescence (with its doubts and fears) . But the other three secondary roles turn around Eva Mendes the seductive lover of Stephen Haines, (who looks fine in this role); the pregnant friend (who expects this birth with hope and illusion) and the lesbian character (who lives with a super model).
New York is the big stage, the fashion world and its well known dissonances rounds an entire and passable film with a happy ending when the different destinies of these women intersect themselves.
Curiously there's no single shot with a masculine character all the way through. We just listen far references (as the telephone call with Ryan's husband).
A very well written script makes of this movie a pleasant and enriching experience for making us think.
But the raw material was by far much more promising that the final outcome.
A GREAT film to get rid of your in laws during the up coming holiday season
2009-10-31 - What a waste of great talent to be in a movie like this,and what the hell happened to Meg Ryan? She was always so cute and pretty,now her face is so botox abused,it hardly moves.My Sister saw "The Women" at the theather when it came out last year,and half the audience was asleep,and the other half left before the film was over.If you want to get rid of your in laws this holiday season,put "THe Women" on your blue ray DVD player.
Lightweight estrogen comedy
2009-10-26 - The Bottom Line:
It's not only the lack of any actor with a Y chromosome that makes The Women feel like it should be airing on the Lifetime network: between the ham-handed direction, weak writing, and superfluity of characters in a short film, The Women is a featherlight comedy that might be the type of film to watch on an airplane but that's about the best recommendation I can muster.
2.5/4
True Friendship 
2009-10-25 - This movie made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. IT's not perfect by any means, but the cast make up for the imperfections of the script. Each actress is so engulfed in their role in this film it's not even funny! After watching it for the first time, I ordered it online to have in my collection. I truly enjoy this film.
