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WheresMyJimHalpert 2012-05-25 07:08:25

Waste of time??

I had been looking forward to this movie for weeks. Every time I saw atrailer or ad, I'd become really happy looking at it, and anticipatingthe film. Adam Brody is relatively new to being on film, not just in"The OC" capacity, and I throughly enjoyed him as Carter Webb. However,I thought that ITLOW lacked in what it mainly advertised, the plot ofBrody and Stewart's character was a main lead in the ads, but I wasunhappy to find that their scenes were very minimal and basically hadlittle to the plot. Webb seemed to be the lost soul looking forguidance, which he clearly found with Meg Ryan's character. I love MegRyan films, but this was probably the first time I found myself pityingher character, and I saw her as almost weak and unfortunate.This movie did have its high points, I loved seeing the interactingbetween Webb and the younger Hardwicke girls on their "date," and someother moments between Carter and his grandmother.Yet, was totally let down after watching Lucy and Carter's"relationship develop." I suppose that this movie wasn't totallysupposed to be about the relationships between Carter and Sarah, andCarter and Lucy, but more about the growth of the mother/daughterrelationship, as I came to learn later.I thought the hype for this movie was overrated, and I was actually letdown by some of it, but I do see that Adam Brody has a lot to offer inthe future, and I can see him doing great projects now that he seenmore in the movie capacity.

Jamie 2012-05-25 01:57:48

blah

the bub is gifted in the form of movies yeah he can ice skate with the hand in his hair he playes games on ice with popo and speed skates around the ice rink arie Jr. is almost as cool as the bub but he lacks hockey skates he uses ice skates to do his triple loop-de-doop wowza i love to make love notes to the bub from someone else and i love to go sailin' with bub and velveeta tata!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Joan 2012-05-23 09:11:49

not great, but not horrible

This movie was just about life and all the lousy things that people cope with, and the wonderful things that people experience. It focused on the ups and downs of relationships and the importance of bonding with others. However, not much happened. I think the actors saved the movie, because they all created believeable characters.

Heather 2012-05-23 00:42:01

Love These Kind of Movies!

You will thoroughly love "In the Land of Women." It was such a treat seeing Meg Ryan again and I thought she was smokin!Adam Brody and Kristen Stewart were great! Olympia Dukakis gave a realistic performance of what your dealing with when you deal with the elderly sometimes. She held nothing back!This movie is a very "slice of life" kind of a story with real people and their real lives.

moonspinner55 2012-05-21 05:55:19

Flat collection of facetious witticisms...comic coming-of-age tale with romance and drama, scrambled up like a TV show

Writer-director Jon Kasdan puts this glossy, empty, superficialcomedy-drama together like a preconceived jigsaw puzzle. You can evencount the scenes like pieces: actress dumps writer, writer discusseslife with disaffected mom, writer goes to live with dying grandma,writer gets involved with unfulfilled housewife across the street,housewife has a lump in her breast, housewife's daughter can't relateto mom, housewife's husband is having an affair that nobody caresabout. Meanwhile, Kasdan's dialogue sounds like it's been filteredthrough the mismatched scenes of a nighttime soap, an endless stream ofself-conscious confessions dotted with a writer's in-jokes. We in theaudience have nothing much to wait for except the teenage girl'sdeclaration of devotion to her "cold, distant" mother, the grandma'sdemise, and the young man's independence from the starlet whom he neverreally loved. Cast is talented yet not really convincing in theseroles. The film isn't even efficiently made; it's a scattershot attemptat bringing together the hearts of these emotionally-impaired people,scored with rock tunes by Huey Lewis, INXS, and Bruce Springsteen.Commercial interruptions will fit right in. *1/2 from ****

Tracy_xx 2012-05-20 09:57:39

Completely misled...

This film is getting a 9 based soley on the completely misleadingpromotion.I went into this expecting a love story between Carter Webb (AdamBrody) and Lucy Hardwicke (Kristen Stewart). I was expecting a dramaticage-gap romance with an ending about his having to go back to LosAngeles.What I got was a totally confusing love hexagon that ended up not beingabout love at all.Carter just got dumped. So he decides to go to Michigan to live withhis grandmother (who is by far the best and most interesting character)and ends up becoming really close to the women across the street.While it was moving, touching, and all that good stuff, I left thetheater with one thought in my mind. "What the hell just happened?" Itwas fantastic. I would highly recommend it. However, I would notrecommend expecting what I did. Don't go into this hoping that thetrailers and poster (which show a lovely romance between Carter andLucy) ring true to the film. That is not at all what the story isabout. It would make a great film, in my opinion, and I still wish ithad taken that direction, but sadly it did not. While still fantastic,you should expect a film about real people (with many flaws andweaknesses that humans have, like the inability to to stand up forthemselves) not a movie like "She's All That" where the two young,good-looking people fall in love with an epic romance.That is not this film. Go see it. But see it to see a great study oncharacters, not story.

2012-05-19 02:36:14

A very sound teenage drama that I only wish had been more adult oriented...

`In the Land of Women' had great potential to be a dramatic and moving character study. Sadly it focuses too much on being appealing to the teenage crowd and so it loses a sense a maturity in parts. It is still a good movie; in fact my wife and I enjoyed it very much, I just feel that it could have, and should have been better. There are things placed within this film that you can tell are there to draw a particular crowd, but then there are moments that scream out with a subtle maturity that I only wish had been consistent throughout. The film revolves around Carter Webb, a screenwriter for the adult entertainment industry. After his celebrity girlfriend Sophia breaks his heart he decides it would be a good idea for him to leave the L.A. life behind and find himself. So, when his mother informs him that his grandmother is paranoid she may die soon he takes that as his opportunity of escape and makes the trip out to Michigan to visit her. His grandmother Phyllis is apparently delusional, but she a riot and so it's a welcomed delusion. Carter soon meets the Hardwicke's who live across the street from Phyllis. He soon forms an attachment with the mother Sarah and the teenage daughter Lucy and throughout their time together they change each others lives drastically.The Hardwicke family has a lot of demons trapped in the closet, especially Sarah and Lucy, and for some reason they feel a comfortableness with Carter that allows them to get things off their chest. There is truth in the idea that there lies a certain comfort with strangers and I think that plays a large role in understanding this film. Some have balked at the fact that Sarah and Lucy would not divulge huge family secrets to a complete stranger but I beg to differ. Sometimes we need sounding boards and it's much easier to sound off on someone not emotionally invested in your or your problems, someone that can't judge you because they don't know you. Sarah and Lucy have a lot they keep bottled up because there is no one for them to talk to about, but now they have Carter.Adam Brody has been breaking out in a large way the past few years due to his stint on `The O.C.' and this is really his first leading role. He handles it well enough. There are certain aspects of his character I felt were forced in order to make him `cool' in the eyes of teenagers and I didn't particularly like that. Kristen Stewart's (can you believe this is the same little girl from `Panic Room'?) character Lucy is another one of those overly clichéd characters. Every stereotype in the book is thrown at her as far as how a rebellious teenage daughter would act. She handles the role decently enough; I just wish they would have given her more. Olympia Dukakis is hilarious as Phyllis and she has some of the most memorable lines. The real standout here though is Meg Ryan who tackles her `sick mom' character with real warmth and conviction. As Sarah you feel really connected to her. I have always love Meg Ryan and really wish she would be given more attention. She is a very capable actress who deserves more accolades for her impressive body of work.In the end `In the Land of Women' works well. It fleshes out some nice character traits, especially when in regards Carter and Sarah whose relationship is the most interesting of all. I wish they had dropped the stereotypes though; left out the token party scene or the `teenage smoking' bit but it's not really enough to complain too much. There are such sweet moments (one I particularly enjoyed was when Carter sits down to write the children's book he told his grandmother he wrote for a living) that I began to really wish the script had been tweaked to reach an older audience. I guess that is my only complaint. This is a film targeted towards the young when if it had been adjusted to target the middle-aged crowd could have turned into a genuinely moving adult drama. Instead it remains a very well constructed teenage drama. Three and a half stars for a film that with a little more maturity could have easily been four and a half or even five.

Mary 2012-05-19 02:25:42

CHICK FLICK

The movie title is forgetful, but the characters are memorable. "IN THE LAND OF WOMEN" is a movie about relationships, and good for people of all ages. The gift of listening is emphasized. The youngest daughter has the best lines of all; she stole the show.

2012-05-14 19:29:41

A Real Film About Real People

This is such a human film...It illustrates the truth that we don't love people because they're perfect because if we did, we'd have no one to love...Every character is flawed and yet each one has a tremendous streak of courage and even some wisdom.There are REAL teenagers in this film, not the usual sex crazed idiots that are so often featured in today's cinema...Seldom does one hear such truthful dialog between people who are looking for answers and finding their way....It reaffirms reasons why we should believe in humanity...

A 2012-05-14 07:05:10

Pretty terrible movie

Are these people who gave it an A serious? Have they really seen a good movie? This was crap; dont waste your time. There was no depth and so many tangents that were never "resolved" or fully explored.You dont feel a thing for any of the characters. If you liked that horrid movie "Elizabethtown", you might actually like this movie. They are both equally bad in the same way: Angst ridden young man goes to sleepy suburbia to "find out whats wrong with his life", while dealing with aging or dead relatives, along the way meets weird needy women who somehow "have the answers to everything"....Fig newtons and a walk..? please. Such cheesy lines, a 5th grader could have written better.--how long did this movie take to write? 2 days. If you have olympia dukakis in a movie, you should utilize her....dont relegate her to being a drooling invalid. VERY disappointing....went without reading any reviews or previews..big mistake.

joanre101 2012-05-13 03:19:02

I want my money back.

I went into this movie because I had a few hours to kill and therewasn't anything else playing in my neighborhood movie theater that Iwas remotely interested in seeing. Even with no real expectations, thismovie managed to disappoint. It was sooooo ssllooww, tedious and soggy.The main characters, at least in the part I saw, were whiney andunlikeable. After about 30-40 minutes, I was so bored that I could nolonger convince myself that the waste of the $7.50 I paid for my ticketwas reason enough to stay, and I walked out. Maybe I shouldn't bereviewing the movie at all since I didn't see the whole thing. I justwanted to warn others away from making the mistake I did. I want mymoney back. I want my time back.

petevieira 2012-05-12 19:32:48

A jumbled mess with no laughs, insight or drama

SPOILERS GALORE AHEAD! The cast is very good, the technical aspects of the film are fine, andthe directing seems solid (not that the material is challenging), butthe screenplay is a train wreck. Too many plots, no laughs, no drama,just an jumble of ideas. Any one of them might have made a good film,with a second as one sub-plot. But in this movie, you get 'em all:Slightly too-old guy falls for slightly too-young girl; Young guy fallsfor hot-ish mom instead of daughter; Woman deals with cancer; Womangets closer to teenage daughter; Woman deals with cheating husband;Young guy moves in with ailing, unappreciated grandmother, learns lifelessons; Teenage girl realizes she likes geeky sweet kid, not arrogantjock douchebag. ALL of these plots are crammed into the movie, alongwith a precocious-kid cliché, and none really pay off. Carter is asoft-core porn writer, but this does not influence the plot in any way,nor does it inform us of his character--there's nothing "porn" abouthim. His relationship with his ailing grandmother has no resonance andis played for laughs(and fails), and Carter learns nothing from her.Sarah must battle cancer knowing her husband is having an affair. Shebelieves it's a secret, but daughter Lucy also knows. But husbandNelson is never called out and never confesses, and Lucy and Mom neverlearn that they both know of the affair. I kept waiting for the movieto focus--it never did.The soundtrack is a problem too. Great songs, but a loud pop soundtrackdoes not belong in this film.

2012-05-10 12:47:56

Great Movie!!!

This movie was a great movie to watch. The second I saw the comercial for this movie I wanted to see it. Mostly because Adam Brody was in it and I think he is really cute! But I thought the movie was going to be a lot different then it was. This movie should have been PG 13 which it was, so if you are a mom whos child wants to go see this movie see it with them because this movie has a couple of inappropreate things in it. I am 11 years old and I saw this movie with my mom. This movie has comedy in it, and lots of drama. But in the end this movie was great, and my mom liked it too!

Mary 2012-05-09 15:15:36

LOVED IT!!

While the ending maybe didn't end how most people may have wanted, I absolutely loved the entire movie! For one, I love Adam Brody and I thought he did a great job. The plot was really interesting and funny. My favorite character was the grandma ( besides Carter) and there were some really great scenes between carter and grandma. Overall, I would definitely tell everyone to see it. I went into the theater thinking, I SOO can't wait to see this movie- it looks SO good! And, when I left the theater, I was NOT disappointed! I was saying, wow, I loved that movie a lot! GO SEE IT!

2012-05-05 07:17:04

It's been done before...but better...

A woman who works at the library said that this was a "cute movie," so I knew what to expect, but watched it anyway. ("Cute" usually means: okay, wouldn't really watch it again, but there may be a couple of good parts.)Carter was dumped by his model/actress girlfriend and decided to go take care of his grandmother and gather his thoughts far from L.A. He writes soft core porn, but he wants to move on to something more meaningful, like writing about his high school days.He meets a mother and daughter who live across the street from his outspoken, strange grandmother (played by Olympia Dukakis) and finds that he is there to help the mother and daughter connect and reestablish their broken relationship. Something tragic is happening within their family and both the women get close very quickly to their new neighbor. There are a few reasons that I didn't really connect to this movie. It's another mediocre film that seems to take a theme from another. (had a Graduate-like feel) Also, I just don't enjoy movies that have lots of deep talks, but don't really say much. Last, it bothers me when it's dramatic, but in the wrong way. Carter says in passing that his school didn't have a football team, so one night, Lucy (the teenage girl) knocks on his window and randomly takes him to her high school football field. Also: Sarah (the mom) said, when Carter was talking about all of the love letters he had written to his ex-girlfriend, that she had NEVER received a letter like that. Well, what do you think happened? He wrote her a love letter. Get the picture? It just felt too pretentious, and too Hollywood. I gave it two stars because I didn't think that it was horrible. I also really liked the grandmothers crazy character. I would probably not recommend the movie to anyone, or watch it again.

Jason P 2012-05-04 16:49:22

Good movie

I thought the movie was good. A great story, interesting characters, not predictable at all. This is a chick flick that guys will be able to get into.

curseofgonzo 2012-05-03 22:46:25

Misleading Title and Terrible Film

This film can't decide whether it is a serious film dealing with issuessuch as cancer and the affect on that on a family or a quirky filmdipping its toes in the lives of normal folks like you and me. The filmis a mess. Part of the time it is quirky film e.g. soft-core pornwriting is the occupation of the main character, his grandmother isinsane in a comedic way but not really funny in any sense, 10 year oldgirl who is very sophisticated and does yoga etc. Then there is the serious side that involves cancer, dealing withcancer, marital trouble and generally the issues of all the characterslove lives. The overall coldness of this family's lives is the maintheme of this side of the film. There is also the matter of Brody'sCarter who has just been broken up with and has moved away from LA toget perspective. How original. And guess what, he's writing a bookabout his experiences. As you can see these are clearly two different movies. There are toomany ideas going on here and far too many bad ideas at that. I can'timagine how this is in any way real or true. Adam Brody's part asCarter is to pass between these two ideas and act as a buffer betweenthe funny and the deeply serious. This doesn't work. The whole plot isflawed. Every action taken by the main character is ridiculous. The montage love scenes are old, the party fight scene is againcompletely ludicrous as you would see if you watched this. Theproduction design is terrible, the camera work is equally bad but youcan't stray far from the main problem; a completely absurd script. It'sa horror to watch and I can't imagine how anyone could see this film assatisfying in any way or form. Adam Brody was thought of for this nodoubt because of his fast talking and comic abilities which would havesuited if this was just an offbeat drama. But no, they tried to make itson much more. This is just a case of a film that tried to cover all the bases. Everypart of this film has been done before and has been done in a moresuperior fashion in other movies. In the end this film is a comedy/lovestory/wacky drama/issue driven film. It is just meaningless and bizarreand it should not have been made.To summarise it is basically a waste of an hour and a half of a life,whatever fee you paid to watch it and the time after watching this muckthat you'll spend angry at yourself for getting it in the first place.

2012-05-03 13:01:08

meh

the acting was forced, the direction uninspired, the plotline vague && laced with detached sexy scenes. i love adam brody though, so it was all right.

2012-05-02 06:29:45

a movie for women/girls

First of all, BOYS DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE unless you are with your girlfriend, you will get bored... Second, this movie is NOT A COMEDY. Its romance, its drama, its something else with few funny moments.Finally, GIRLS I think you will enjoy this. A handsome boy, some romantic moments, some intimate moments... My girlfriend loved it, and I enjoyed watching with her.This movie is worth 0-1 star and for girls 4-5 stars... and the average is 3.

2012-05-01 19:44:17

Olympia Dukakis Commits Acting Crime, Gets Stripped of her Oscar

I remember Kristen Stewart in PANIC ROOM when she was a good looking little boy, or so I thought, but baby look at her now! If she is going to be tne one playing Bella in the movie of TWILIGHT, then it is bound to be a winner. Here she plays the sullen, rebellious, teenage daughter of Meg Ryan in a midwestern suburb that's been manicured to within an inch of its life. Her boyfriend is the chief jock in the high school and she hangs out with a trendy, Vogue-reading pack of gossip girls. And yet for some reason she's not happy--well, if she was, there wouldn't be a movie. To Lucy, Carter Webb the visitor from far off Los Angeles, is her entree into a more intriguing world of exile and possibility. He's creative--a writer--and he still acts like he's in high school, which is reassuring.He has a comically sad relationship to his aging grandmother (Olympia Dukakis, flaming the screen with shreds of ham), which is just as winsome as Lucy's own relationship with her mother, the aforementioned Meg Ryan, going out of her way to act as if she really had cancer.The two houses across the street from each other form a dichotomy which the younger characters resent, always spilling out of domestic life and meeting in the middle of the street--I kept waiting for one of them to get run over by Kristen Stewart's car-crazy pack of jock friends.Adam Brody just wasn't right for this movie, and if it fails, it's because of two things, he's the same as Seth Cohen only without any snappy dialogue, and b, the whole script is written in a way that makes you think the producers are purposely avoiding letting Carter have sex with either mother or daughter.He's supposed to write soft core porn for HBO or whatever, but as the film makes it clear, he is as ignorant about sex as he is about everything else. I guess he's okay, though how convenient that he gets to meet Ms. Right in the last sixty seconds of the movie. Whoops, that's a spoiler right there but now I've got you curious and otherwise there's not much to look forward to once Olympia Dukakis totters in and destroys the picture.