The Women

– The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
4.90 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 54 Minutes
Release Year:
2008
The Women (2008)

The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-wedded Mary Haines finds her marriage in trouble when shop girl Crystal Allen gets her hooks into Mary's man.

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Producing Country:
USA
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The Women (2008) - Trailer

Release Date:

12 Sep 2008

Language:

English

MPAA Content-Rating:
PG-13 – Parents Strongly Cautioned

Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. Parents are urged to be cautious. Some material may be inappropriate for pre-teenagers.

Director:

Diane English

Writer:

Diane English (screenplay), Clare Boothe Luce (play), Anita Loos, Jane Murfin

Main Actors:

Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing

Plot:

Based on a very clever comedy by Claire Booth, wife of Time Publisher Henry Luce and later Ambassador to Italy. One of the surprises was an all-woman cast, novel in the 1930's. And although there were no men in the cast, most of the dialog was about them. The story is rather thin and depended on the fact that divorce, in the 1930's, was not only difficult but almost impossible in New York. Mrs. Stephen Haynes learns that her husband is seeing a salesgirl at Saks, and reluctantly divorces him, abetted by her friends, all of whom have romantic problems of their own. In the 1930's New York women who could afford it went to Nevada, where residency could be established quickly and divorce was relatively easy. The 1939 film, starring Norma Shearer, Paulette Goddard, Rosalind Russell, and Joan Crawford, was a hit. This one, with an even better looking cast, is definitely not, largely because someone tried to move a 1930's situation comedy into the present.

Awards:

4 wins & 4 nominations.

Gross profit:

$26,814,683

Production:

Picturehouse Entertainment

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
4.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
13%
Metacritic:
27%