The Women (I) (2008)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Meg Ryan	...	Mary Haines
	Annette Bening	...	Sylvie Fowler
	Eva Mendes	...	Crystal Allen
	Debra Messing	...	Edie Cohen
	Jada Pinkett Smith	...	Alex Fisher
	Bette Midler	...	Leah Miller
	Candice Bergen	...	Catherine Frazier
	Carrie Fisher	...	Bailey Smith
	Cloris Leachman	...	Maggie
	Debi Mazar	...	Tanya
	India Ennenga	...	Molly Haines
	Jill Flint	...	Annie
	Ana Gasteyer	...	Pat
	Joanna Gleason	...	Barbara
	Tilly Scott Pedersen	...	Uta

Storyline

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. Written by jojo.acapulco  

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