DVD : The Women

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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0794043128424
Format: Color, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: New Line Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1EnglishUnknownDolby Digital 5.1EnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitled
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
MPN: TRNDN45400D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 19, 2008
Running Time: 114 minutes
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 10, 2008

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 12/19/2008 Run time: 115 minutes Rating: Pg13

Amazon.com:
For fans of some of America’s finest actresses, seeing a film with even one of the cast members of The Women would be a treat. But this remake of George Cukor’s famed girl-trouble ensemble film features Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Jada Pinkett Smith, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Cloris Leachman, Bette Midler, Carrie Fisher, Joanna Gleason, and Candice Bergen–whew!–making it a film that fans of these terrifically talented women can savor. The remake may not have the cat-itude or camp factor of the original, but so what? The cast’s chemistry really shines; friendship is thicker than water, it turns out–even stronger than the ties that bind women to their men. Ryan is the good-girl Mary Haines, whose husband, she and her friends learn, is cheating on her with the stunning femme fatale Crystal (Mendes, in the Joan Crawford role)–”a spritzer” at the perfume counter. Quelle horreur! The other women rally around the hapless Mary, staging interventions, offering snappy advice, and plotting battles on behalf of their friend. But it turns out that Ryan’s Mary isn’t quite as fragile as she seems. Gimlets and girl talk–lots of both–go a long way toward getting our heroine through her crisis, and onto a new stage in her life that surprises her husband and more than one of her pals. And the laughs by the appearances of Midler and Bergen, especially, are worth watching the whole film for. –A.T. Hurley

Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - How bad can bad be…..
There is bad and then there is really bad and the there is the remake of The Women which adds a new low to bad. A great cast wasted on a really bad script. How can one of the funniest plays in B’way History be turned into a dull mess where all the women end up being boring… even Bette Middler ;who can save most anything; couldn’t lift this Turkey out the mud! The casting was right, but the ladies had nothing to work with. Leachman who is super funny didn’t have a single funny line. Don’t waist … Read More

Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - worst (over) acting ever
i thought meg ryan was the best in the movie and i dont even think she is a good actress. were they supposed to be over acting so much? the huffs and ridiculous faces. maybe i have never seen jada smith in a movie and only know her from the tabloids, but she was the worst. i thought annette benning was like watching a bad diane keaton imitation. it was bad bad bad. not funny at all, not one chuckle. glad i was multi tasking while watching this.

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The New Women
Warning: minor spoilers ahead.

I found this remake of the 1939 film The Women to be quite enjoyable. I was worried that it was going to purge all the bitchiness of the original, but some of that remained, and it is quite witty and clever in other places and ways.

Even though it makes about as much sense to me to compare the two versions of The Women as it does to compare Massenet’s Manon to Puccini’s Manon Lescaut or Puccini’s and Leoncavallo’s versions of La Boh猫me with … Read More

Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - The PC Girls
Diane English said she thought the original was “mean”…oh brother! Political Correctness is so damned boring. Why, oh why, do these Hollywood twits re-make Great Movies? Why don’t they re-make lousy movies and try to make them better? I think it’s just a lack of imagination. This 2008 version is to the 1939 version what warm Kool-Aid is to Champagne. Claire Booth Luce wrote a play, “THE WOMEN”, which is sophisticated and razor-sharp funny. Joan Crawford’s Crystal Allen alone would blow all these cutesy … Read More

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - I say 3 stars, but maybe more like 3 1/2
I’m not completely sure why this film has been blasted with negative reviews, because it’s really not all that bad for a movie that doesn’t seem to have one visible man in any of it’s scenes. Yep, it’s allll women, so if you don’t like seeing that many women on display, this probably won’t be your kind of movie. Who can argue with a cast like this one, something that is rare in today’s films, to have more than one top billing in a Hollywood movie. It’s fun just to see all of them working together in the way … Read More