rottentomatoes.com - 9/11/2008
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Synopsis: What happens when you combine a brilliant, all-female, all-star cast, headed by Meg Ryan and Annette Bening; celebrated comedy writer/director/producer Diane English (Murphy Brown); and a classic story about a circle of New York friends? The answer is THE WOMEN, a... What happens ...
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Theater Releases for September 12, 2008
MovieZeal —
... Here’s a fun fact, though: this film currently has a 0% rating at Rotten Tomatoes. And if that doesn’t get you into theaters, I don’t know what will. ...
Critics Insist 'The Women' Sets Back Chick Flick's Rights Several Hundred Years [Critical Drubbings]
Gawker: defamer —
... has had so much plastic correction that her features — all but the ingénue eyes — are immobilized (and this in a movie that sucks whatever laughs it can muster from the Botox-and-surgery subculture). Could that be Meg Ryan peering out from Goldie Hawn's face? Since I have yet to encounter a Ryan comedy in which she fails to flap her hands while pulling on or peeling off woolly socks several fetching sizes too large for her dainty feet, it must be she." [LA Weekly] The Women [Rotten Tomatoes]
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Coens, Cops and Tyler Perry Take on 'The Women' in Fall's First Battle Royale [Defamer Attractions]
Gawker: defamer —
... THE UNDERDOG: Don't look now (oh, all right, go ahead) but The Women is up to a 9 percent approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes! The ...
Box Office: Burn After Reading Sets Box Office on Fire
BuzzSugar —
... Autumn boost with their comedy Burn After Reading, which debuted at No. 1 with an estimated $19.4 million. It was a lucrative weekend overall, actually, with many of the week's new releases doing better than expected despite a "crowded marketplace for adult-skewing films."
In second place came Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys earning $18 million, followed by the Al Pacino-Robert De Niro reunion, Righteous Kill. And despite unflattering reviews, even The Women did alright over the weekend, coming in ...
Meg Ryan says ex Dennis Quaid cheated “for a very long time”
Cele|bitchy —
... Ryan’s film The Women is number 7 at the US box office after two weeks and has taken in $20 million. It’s not a very strong showing for the film, and it’s also received very bad reviews, with an only 10% aggregate critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It’s as good a time to bring up a cheating ex husband as any. ...
DVD Review: “The Women”
Popdose —
... and film fans often tsk and tut when a studio fast-tracks a picture in an effort to shove something out while the iron is hot, but even if you give a film all the development time in the world — like, say, over a decade — that doesn’t mean it’s going to be a success. Witness Diane English’s remake of The Women, which emerged from an interminable series of delays this year, only to be pelted with horrible reviews and box office indifference. At 13 percent on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer, The Women was one of the ...
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filmexperience.blogspot.com 9/11/2008 — The new version of The Women is about to open and "update" that classic 30s catfight. I'm holding my breath and potentially my nose. We'll see. But while we're here I thought we should travel back in time to a moment when few people inexplicably ...
The Ladies of The Women Bring Their Party to NYC —
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Eva Mendes took a break from all her Fashion Week duties last night to attend a screening of The Women in NYC with her costars Jada Pinkett Smith, Meg Ryan, and Debi Mazar. Unlike last week's big premiere in LA , Annette Bening and Debra Messing sat this one out, but Julia Stiles and Bette ...
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Meg Ryan's 'metaphysical' adoption —
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Meg Ryan says adopting her daughter was like a "metaphysical kind of labour". 'The Women' actress - who adopted Daisy True, now three, from China in 2006 - admits the process has many similarities to natural birth, with all the same emotions.
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Meg Ryan Breaks Silence On Split From Quaid.... Actress Meg Ryan felt guilty over her divorce from Dennis Quaid - even though she was only partly to blame. Ryan reveals it wasn't until after the dissolution of her ten-year marriage in 2001 that she learned details of Quaid's alleged infidelity, ...
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'The Women' Come Clean on 'Extra' —
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Hollywood power women Annette Benning, Debra Messing, Meg Ryan and Jada Pinkett Smith are barging onto "Extra's" set to talk about their new flick, "The Women." The ladies dish about who the diva of the group is -- plus, Jada reveals what hubby Will ...