The Women

2008
US
1h 30min
12A

Directed by: Diane English
Written by: Diane English
Cast: Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith, Candice Bergen, Cloris Leachman, Bette Midler, Carrie Fisher, Debi Mazar, Keegan Connor Tracy, Ana Gasteyer, Joanna Gleason

Depressing update of Clare Booth Luce's 1936 satirical play set in the idle and bitchy world of wealthy wives and divorcees. US TV writer Diane English adapts and directs with little feeling for the sacred text she is dealing with. Some adequate performances, nice costumes and a few decent one-liners aside this prompts the inevitable question: why?

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The Women

4 Sep 2008

Depressing update of Clare Booth Luce’s 1936 satirical play set amid the idle and bitchy world of wealthy wives and divorcees. Immensely popular in its day (it ran on Broadway for over a year) and most famously adapted by Anita Loos for George Cukor’s…

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