The Women

PG-13

Released Sep 12, 2008

1 hr. 54 min.

Comedy

Drama

List

13%

147 Reviews

Tomatometer

37%

50,000+ Ratings

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Clothing designer Mary Haines (Meg Ryan) appears to have it all: a beautiful home in Connecticut, a successful husband, a lovely daughter, and the support of a close circle of friends -- led by magazine editor Sylvie Fowler (Annette Bening). When Mary learns her husband is cheating, her pals rally around her. But his infidelity does not compare to the betrayal Mary feels when Sylvie spills the beans about the affair to a gossip columnist she wants to hire for her magazine.

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Critics Consensus

The Women is a toothless remake of the 1939 classic, lacking the charm, wit and compelling protagonists of the original.

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Mike P

Horrible remake of the classic 1939 George Cukor bitchfest has none of the style and the panache of the original...In fact it's an embarrassment. Overall: 👎 Definitely NOT Recommended

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

03/07/24

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Karen C

Terrible acting from some great actresses. Could not finish this it was so bad.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/27/24

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Audience Member

Remake invecchiato malissimo, che dopo nemmeno 15 anni sembra un insulto alla lotta per l'emancipazione femminile e per la parità dei sessi. Una serie di donne, nelle posizioni sociali più diverse tra di loro, vengono raccontate con una banalità disarmante, talmente evidente da risultare quasi una caricatura di tutti i luoghi comuni sul genere femminile. Tutto "perfettamente" riassunto nella sequenza del parto, irritante e sgradevole. A nulla serve il messaggio di un film totalmente al femminile, se a mancare sono i contenuti.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/12/23

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Audience Member

Some one liners in the script are very, very funny and the actors are likeable . The problem is, the women they are playing are highly privileged, out of touch, fluffy rich women who look on working class women as "shanks". Self-centred snobs. I watched this with my 90 year old mother and she was ready to bail before I was, so it's not a generational thing. After 20 minutes, neither of us gave a hoot what was going on in their well manicured, shallow lives - so we switched off.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/14/23

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clive e

Absolute total rubbish. Great cast must have thought they'd died and gone to hell in this complete garbage of a movie

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Audience Member

I did not know this was a remake so I cannot compare. I watched this movie excited to see a 100% female cast, not a single man To be seen anywhere! However the men did not need to be seen in this film to still dominate the plot. Every cliche is here the ‘friends' are all cliches you'll see in any ‘rom-com / chick-flick' the house wife, the sassy business woman, the earth mother, the token black friend/lesbian (two in one there, well done!🙄) tEven the mistress is a cliche. There is no depth, no insight, no real female empowerment. Such a missed opportunity to really show women in a powerful way. An amazing cast left floundering in the lazy and lacklustre script. I could write more but I'm just mystified as why they bothered with this film and what the actual message was supposed to be.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Diane English

Director

Meg Ryan

Mary Haines

Annette Bening

Sylvie Fowler

Eva Mendes

Crystal Allen

Debra Messing

Edie Cohen

Jada Pinkett Smith

Alex Fisher

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Ben Mankiewicz

At the Movies

The classic 1939 film adaptation... worth seeing again and again. This is not.

Nov 5, 2008

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Ben Lyons

At the Movies

I love women in real life but at the movies I hated The Women.

Nov 5, 2008

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David Stratton

The Australian

A lazy film that makes the most obvious points about the war between the sexes and, as a result, makes the characters much less interesting than they might have been.

Rated: 2.5/5

Oct 31, 2008

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Debbie Lynn Elias

Behind The Lens

[A] fresh, revitalized script that while it celebrates women, still contains no men, retains the core story of Mary Haines who discovers her husband is having an affair with perfume spritzer girl Crystal Allen, but has its own unique twist.

Rated: 3/5

Nov 3, 2019

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Kelly Jane Torrance

Washington Times

The problem isn't just the flat script by director and Murphy Brown creator Diane English. It's that this film's raison d'etre seems to be not to entertain, but to sell.

Rated: 1.5/4

Dec 13, 2018

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Marcianne Miller

Bold Life (Hendersonville, NC)

Despite its good intentions and high hopes, The Women is not a good movie. It does, though, have plenty of nifty slices.

Aug 26, 2018

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Synopsis

Clothing designer Mary Haines (Meg Ryan) appears to have it all: a beautiful home in Connecticut, a successful husband, a lovely daughter, and the support of a close circle of friends -- led by magazine editor Sylvie Fowler (Annette Bening). When Mary learns her husband is cheating, her pals rally around her. But his infidelity does not compare to the betrayal Mary feels when Sylvie spills the beans about the affair to a gossip columnist she wants to hire for her magazine.

Director: Diane English
Screenwriter: Diane English
Distributor: Picturehouse
Production Co: Jagged Films, Inferno Distribution, Shukovsky English
Rating: PG-13 (Language|Brief Smoking|Sex-Related Material|Some Drug Use)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 12, 2008, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 1, 2010
Box Office (Gross USA): $26.9M

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