In the Land of Women Release
Date:
April 20, 2007 Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures Director: Jonathan Kasdan
Screenwriter: Jonathan Kasdan Starring: Adam Brody, Kristen Stewart, Meg Ryan, Olympia Dukakis,
Makenzie Vega, Clark Gregg, Elena Anaya Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for sexual content, thematic elements and language) Official Website:
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Plot Summary: Aspiring writer Carter Webb has
just been dumped by his true love Sophia. Heartbroken and depressed, he escapes
Los Angeles to suburban Michigan to care for his ailing grandmother and to start
work on a book he has always wanted to write. Soon after his arrival, Carter
stumbles into the lives of the family across the street: Sarah Hardwicke, the
mother of two daughters: Paige, a precocious, effervescent eleven-year-old and
her older sister Lucy, an angst-ridden teenager. While Sarah faces her own
personal crisis, Lucy wrestles with her own fears. Through his relationships
with all of these women, Carter discovers that what felt like the end was really
just the beginning of something else...
EN 5 Second Review:
This movie would be great, if only a movie about a porn
writer had boobs that is. Skip it, unless you are a teen girl who loves
Oprah. Then it's a must see.
With
an age-old cinema theme of a young man's maturation, it
also needs to land female ticket-buyers but seems a lot
like something women could find at home on the WE channel Luke Sader: Hollywood Reporter
On the plus side, this is not a younger man/older woman plot
exactly. Rather it's a fish-out-of-water story, which opens
with 26-year-old Carter Webb (Adam Brody in his first film
lead) getting dumped by his stunning foreign and famous
girlfriend (Elena Anaya). His screenwriting aspirations have
never gotten off the ground, so he ekes out a living in Los
Angeles by writing porn movies....more
Writer-director
Kasdan has made the best film he can make now, which is no
small thing. He will make even better ones in the future,
which might be a very big thing indeed Kenneth Turran: LA Times
With elements like the specter of fatal illness and
emotional moments in the pouring rain, "In the Land of
Women" can seem predictable at times. But it is more
frequently refreshing in the way it deals with what could
easily seem fatally old hat. This is a film that tries, with
more than usual success, to be both commercial and honest,
calculating and emotional...more
In
the Land of Women doesn't for a moment feel messy and
chaotic where it counts Michael Phillips: Chicago Tribune
A lot of it is pleasantly acted, especially when Stewart
takes the screen. Ryan works hard, though you keep waiting
for her character to broach the delicate subject of her
recent unnecessary lip enhancement...more
Release
Date:
April 20, 2007
EN 5 Second Review:
This movie would be great, if only a movie about a porn
writer had boobs that is. Skip it, unless you are a teen girl who loves
Oprah. Then it's a must see.
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