The Women Page #2

Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Diane English
Production: Picturehouse Entertainment
  4 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
4.9
Metacritic:
27
Rotten Tomatoes:
13%
PG-13
Year:
2008
114 min
$26,814,683
Website
3,326 Views


to pick up my dry-cleaning?

Yes, I remembered

to pick up your dry-cleaning.

What is wrong with this picture?

How lovely. Thank you.

Okay, dog, clean.

Bread, flowers and... Oh.

Hey, um, do you know where the thing that

I made with the whatsits around the edge?

- Bowl with the freesias.

- Yeah, where is that?

Right in front of you.

Oh, yeah, I think the tortellini

will fit in that.

- What do you think, Uta?

- Oh, look at this.

The face of the Virgin Mary appeared

on a rag at a car wash in Los Angeles.

It's hard to believe that you were born

in a country that hands out the Nobel Prize.

That's Sweden.

How many times do I have to tell you?

I'm Danish.

Like the pastry.

- Mom, what's going on?

- Hey, honey.

You're supposed to help me

with my book report.

Oh, my God, I just completely forgot.

- I'm so sorry.

- It's due Monday.

Yes, but today is the luncheon for the park.

I'm co-chair.

Which is more important?

Some piece of grass or my education?

Molly, I don't know why you save

these things till the last minute, honestly.

- Uta can help you with your book report.

- That's her job.

Nicole Kidman has cellulite.

Where? Let me see.

- Oh.

I think they drew that in.

Let's do it...

We'll finish it after the lunch.

- No, we can't, I have to finish the...

- Sketches.

Sketches which are late.

- Then I've to pick up...

- Airline tickets.

Why do you always save these things

for the last minute?

Molly Jane Haines,

is that any way to talk to your mother?

Chocolate macadamia cookies.

No, that's like five points.

- Since when are you counting calories?

- Since I'm fat.

Since you're fat?

Oh, honey, you're not fat, you're perfect.

I'll just do the book report myself.

- Now, go take a shower.

- Oh, yeah.

She thinks she's fat.

Oh, your father called.

He wants you to have lunch with him

when you come back from your vacation.

My father wants to have lunch with me?

Don't remember the last time he wanted to.

He said it was important.

Oh, Maggie, I think I know

what this is about.

I think he's getting ready

to hand me the business.

- Know how long I've been waiting?

- Years, you've been waiting.

- Just years.

- Years.

- Oh, my God.

- Oh, my God.

Oh. Lucy, Lucy, Lucy, off, off, off.

Molly, how many times have I told you,

no dogs on the bed?

Lucy, off. Go on.

- Hey, Mom?

- Yeah.

How come you design clothes

you wouldn't be caught dead in?

That's what your grandfather

manufactures.

Those are his customers,

but they're not gonna be mine.

What's this?

That is a travel coffee filter.

Here they come.

The population of Salem has just dropped.

All right, all right,

keep your Wonderbras on.

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Diane English

Diane English (born May 18, 1948) is an American screenwriter, producer and director, best known for creating the television show Murphy Brown and writing and directing the 2008 feature film The Women. more…

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