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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 53354
Released: February 13, 2001 |
| Our Price: $8.54 |
| Used Price: $2.45 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Woman on Top pretends to be your standard fish-out-of-water romantic comedy laced with touches of magic realism. When you break it down and look at its elements, however, it turns out to be different than most, which is good. Hot Spanish star Penélope Cruz (All About My Mother) plays Isabella Oliveira, a Brazilian chef who falls madly in love with, and marries, a dashing waiter (Murilo Benício). Throughout her life she's been a victim of motion sickness, and the only way she can overcome it is by being in control, whether it's driving or being on top during sex. Her husband starts to feel that as a threat to his Latin masculinity, and when he steps out on her, she catches him. She decides to leave Brazil and stop loving him, ending up in San Francisco with an old friend (Harold Perrineau Jr.), now a drag queen. There she meets a nice guy-television producer (Mark Feuerstein), who sets her up with her own cooking show. Normally in this kind of movie his character would be the perfect antidote for her heartbreak, but he ends up more seduced by the success of her cooking show than by her. When her husband shows up, she becomes trapped in a love triangle where both men are deeply flawed. Can she forgive her husband's infidelity and fall back in love with him? Forget the answer. The fact that the question is being asked separates Woman on Top from the other broad, romantic comedies that share its tone. Plus it's chock-full of seductive Brazilian music. --Andy Spletzer
Woman on Top Reviews:
Does not deserve 1 star! 
2009-09-19 - This disaster does not deserve even 1 star. Horrible acting - especially the husband/boyfriend seem to read their lines from a teleprompter. Screenplay is dumb and boring. The scene were half of the cities male population follows in P. Cruz fotsteps is ridiculous. Half way thru I thought this can't get any worse, guess what - IT DID! An insult to intelligent movie goers. SAVE YOUR TIME AND MONEY. Maybe eye candy for the guys - Penelope C. is beautiful, an actress she is not. r,
Did not receive item
2009-06-03 - The product was defective so the seller did not send the item. I will try to order it from another seller.
DVD came very quickly 
2009-05-03 - The DVD came within a week after I ordered it. I am very happy with the seller!
Magical Romanticism at its best
2009-03-05 - Don't want to bore you with technicalities just watch it. Here it is in a nutshell. A man, a woman, delicious brazilian food, Bahia (Brazil), San Francisco and...a Goddess!!! Just delicious!!! Oh! and... did I mention Love?!
Totally delightful Penelope Cruz 
2009-01-31 - It's a story about an unsinkable woman who flees a bad relationship in Brazil and ends up in San Francisco, where she cooks up a storm of wonderful Brazilian food for the locals. Beautifully shot in San Francisco and my favorite Brazilian city, where I am at home, Salvador. Cruz shines and inspires.
