The Women (2008)

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Country: USA
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2008-09-12
Director: Diane English
Writers: Diane English , Clare Boothe Luce , Anita Loos , Jane Murfin
Language: English
Stars: Meg Ryan , Eva Mendes , Annette Bening , Debra Messing , Jada Pinkett Smith , Bette Midler , Candice Bergen , Carrie Fisher , Cloris Leachman , Debi Mazar
Runtime: 114 min
Awards: 4 wins & 4 nominations
AKA: The Women (France, French Republic) , Kadınlar (Turkey) , Todo sobre las mujeres (Argentina) , Жените (Bulgaria) , The Women (South Africa) , Todo sobre las mujeres (Mexico) , Naised (Estonia) , Femmes (Canada) , Ola gia tis gynaikes (Greece) , Ha'nashim (Israel) , The Women (United Kingdom) , The Women (United States of America) , Zeny (Czech Republic) , Nők (Hungary) , Жінки (Ukraine) , 女人至上 (Taiwan) , Женщины (Russian Federation) , The Women - Von großen und kleinen Affären (Germany) , The Women , The Women (Spain) , Mulheres! (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , THE WOMEN 明日の私に着替えたら (Japan) , Naiset (Finland) , Kobiety (Poland) , The Women (Australia) , Γυναίκες (Greece) , Moterys (Lithuania) , Mulheres: O Sexo Forte (Brazil) , Todo sobre las mujeres (Peru) , The Women (Canada) , Gynaikes (Greece) , The women (Chile) , The Women (Italy)
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.
IMDB:tt0430770