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List Price: $29.98 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 28416
Released: September 11, 2007 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Primetime Emmy® Award winner Debra Messing (Will and Grace) lights up the screen in The Starter Wife! Follow the uplifting adventures of Molly Kagen (Messing), a Hollywood wife who must reinvent herself after being left by her movie executive husband. Jon Avnet (Fried Green Tomatoes) directs a dazzling ensemble cast, including Judy Davis (Husbands and Wives), Miranda Otto (Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers), Joe Mantegna (Bugsy) and Anika Noni Rose (Dreamgirls). Based on the bestselling novel by Gigi Levangie Grazer, this must-own 2-disc set includes all 6 liberating TV-hours of funny, empowering entertainment. Say "I do" to The Starter Wife on DVD!
The Starter Wife Reviews:
very entertaining 
2009-10-07 - I really enjoyed this series. Debra Messing did a great job and I loved the whole cast.
Fun Chick Flick
2009-03-22 - This is just hilarious and you should definitely get the mini-series as well. Messing and all the other actors in this movie are fantastic and you really start to care about them. Definitely in the "chick flick" category, it is so well written and acted that if you need a fun time and an escape, this is the movie for you. I think it gives a really funny look at relationships. If you need cheering up, you will laugh your butt off! Power Path to Love
Cute mini-series! The series that follows is better, though! 
2009-03-14 - I actually watched the first season of the television show on USA before going back and watching this DVD of the mini-series. I found it interesting that the actor who played her ex, Kenny, in the mini-series is not the same guy that plays him in the series and I found it funny that the original actor was probably a good 10-15 or so years older than the series actor. I am sure that they didn't anticipate that it would take off like it did and they'd have a full-fledged series on their hands, so the major changes are totally understandable.
I love Molly's character, and another example of how much better it gets in the series is that I didn't really understand her character or really like it all that much in the mini-series, which was a shock to me because I LOVE her in the series.
Overall, this is a nice, light watch and it's smart, funny and touching all in one show! Love it!
Just a soap opera
2009-01-20 - Interesting mainly to women, this cable TV series has some mildly entertaining interplay between the female lead and her schlubby ex who dumps her for a young pop star. Otherwise, it's pretty rote stuff. Watch if you are transfixed by the lives of the pampered LA inside movie business set.
Starter Wife -- As Good As It Gets
2009-01-13 - The Starter Wife is one of the best TV series ever written. Season One took a mediocre book (which I read *after* I watched S1) and made a fabulous show. Debra Messing is a consummate actress who has hit her stride in TSW. Her interpretation of Molly Kagan -- wife, ex-wife, mother, and budding woman -- is just brilliant. It's hard to see how she can top this -- oh, wait, she has -- TSW2 is even better than TSW1. Judy Davis is wonderful as her dear friend Joan, a snarky lush trapped in an open marriage, and Chris Diamantopoulos as Rodney, a gay man looking for Mr. Right, shine in both seasons as part of Molly's inner circle. Peter Jacobson is delightfully obnoxious as TSW Ex-Spousal Unit Kenny whose world revolves around him and his male member who together cause the initial disruption in Molly's seemingly perfect Hollywood life, while Joe Mantegna plays Lou, the guy every woman wants to meet and many of them have married (evidenced by a succession of unsuccessful marriages). He's in love with being in love with Molly, and he is her best straight male friend. If there's a drawback to TSW, it's the mysterious homeless man Sam with whom Molly falls in love. He wasn't a great character in the book and doesn't improve much in this much improved series. British actor Stephen Moyer is miscast as the sulky beachbum with a past. The only attraction between Sam and Molly is the fact that he is shiftless, whereas Kenny is dedicated to furthering is career, even if it's at the expense of his marriage. Sam is as self-centered as Kenny, and his life philosophy doesn't invite interest in his backstory. It came as a big relief to learn that Sam doesn't show up in TSW2. At its most basic, The Starter Wife is evidence that a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
