In the Land of Women (2007)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

Jon Kasdan

Writer (WGA):

Jon Kasdan (written by)

Release Date:

20 April 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Tagline:

Get ready to fall

Plot:

His world in complete disorder after his break-up with a famous actress, Carter, a young soft-core porn writer...

Plot Keywords:

Writer | Grandmother | Break Up | Yoga | Woods

Cast

Elena Anaya	...	Sofia Buñuel
Adam Brody	...	Carter Webb
Kelsey Keel	...	Teenage Girl #1
Danielle Savre	...	Teenage Girl #2
Gia Mantegna	...	Teenage Girl #3 (as Gina Mantegna)
Rob Reinis	...	Avi Rosenberg (as Robert Reinis)
JoBeth Williams	...	Agnes Webb
Makenzie Vega	...	Paige Hardwicke
Kristen Stewart	...	Lucy Hardwicke
Meg Ryan	...	Sarah Hardwicke
Olympia Dukakis	...	Phyllis
Dustin Milligan	...	Eric Watts
Graham Wardle	...	Gabe Foley
Elise Gatien	...	Tiffany
Christine Danielle	...	Tanya

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for sexual content, thematic elements and language.

Runtime:

97 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Portugal:M/12 | Argentina:13 | Taiwan:R-12 | Brazil:10 | Australia:M | Finland:K-7 | Netherlands:12 | Canada:G (Québec) | Canada:PG (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) | USA:PG-13 (certificate #42613) | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Castle Rock Entertainment

Goofs:

Factual errors: In the end credits for the soundtrack they title a song wrong: "Better Never Than Late" by Two Hours Traffic is actually "Better Sorry Than Safe". The official soundtrack has this corrected.

Quotes:

Paige Hardwicke: Oh, let's see the new Colin Farrell movie!
Carter Webb: Oh, let's not!

Movie Connections:

References National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)

Soundtrack:

Iceman

Completely misled...

This film is getting a 9 based soley on the completely misleading promotion.

I went into this expecting a love story between Carter Webb (Adam Brody) and Lucy Hardwicke (Kristen Stewart). I was expecting a dramatic age-gap romance with an ending about his having to go back to Los Angeles.

What I got was a totally confusing love hexagon that ended up not being about love at all.

Carter just got dumped. So he decides to go to Michigan to live with his 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 the theater with one thought in my mind. "What the hell just happened?" It was fantastic. I would highly recommend it. However, I would not recommend expecting what I did. Don't go into this hoping that the trailers and poster (which show a lovely romance between Carter and Lucy) ring true to the film. That is not at all what the story is about. It would make a great film, in my opinion, and I still wish it had taken that direction, but sadly it did not. While still fantastic, you should expect a film about real people (with many flaws and weaknesses that humans have, like the inability to to stand up for themselves) 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 on characters, not story.