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In the Land of Women (2006)

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Average Rating: 5.3/10
Reviews Counted: 117
Fresh: 51 | Rotten: 66

While pleasantly acted, In the Land of Women is a dramatically stilted film with underdeveloped characters.

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Average Rating: 5.1/10
Critic Reviews: 38
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 22

While pleasantly acted, In the Land of Women is a dramatically stilted film with underdeveloped characters.

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Average Rating: 3.2/5
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Movie Info

A man having trouble with women suddenly finds himself surrounded by them in this independent comedy drama. Carter Webb (Adam Brody) is a successful writer who has fallen into an emotional tailspin after his girlfriend, well-known actress Sophia (Elena Anaya), breaks up with him. When Carter learns that his grandmother (Olympia Dukakis) is in failing health, he decides to leave California and return to his hometown of Detroit to help take care of her and beginning work on his long-planned novel.

PG-13,

Drama, Comedy

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Jon Kasdan

Oct 30, 2007

$11.0M

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A movie with one awkward identity crisis.

April 21, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Daily News
New York Daily News
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The screenplay by Kasdan is soggy with earnest clichés.

April 21, 2007 Full Review Source: Time Out New York
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The film belongs to Brody, an endearing screen presence.

April 20, 2007 Full Review Source: USA Today
USA Today
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This potentially saccharine weepy has an authentic ring, thanks to Jon Kasdan's script and a cast capable of delivering clever lines that sound just about right for whatever situation they're in.

April 20, 2007 Full Review Source: Toronto Star
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In the Land of Women is a pretty enough place to visit (particularly the design-mag interiors of Ryan's character's home, all precisely coordinated to match her eyes), but as a movie it appears to have nothing to say.

April 20, 2007 Full Review Source: Seattle Times
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Brody's apparent ease in his own skin and his skills as a listener make Carter an engaging fellow and make it understandable why, as soon as he moves to town, people start confiding in him.

April 20, 2007 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle
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Brody is the epitome of the trustworthy, funny, approachable, but magnetic nice guy that you would marry in a second if he really existed. It was like Tom Hanks and John Cusack had a love child.

August 25, 2008 Full Review Source: ReelzChannel.com

As soon as it's over, you start forgetting about it. It's not a bad movie, it's just fine.

March 3, 2008 Full Review Source: The Scorecard Review
The Scorecard Review

Touching-but-treacly chick flick for moms & teens.

October 31, 2007 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

Jonathan Kasdan infects them with a smart-ass self-awareness and a grandiose sense of vitality that borders on preciousness. It has that Baby Boomer quality of his father's films without any of the history to back it up.

August 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Cinerina

Kasdan's gift for the smart crack is consistently undercut by a well-developed taste for schmalz.

July 28, 2007 Full Review Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald

I distrust any film in which people stand and argue and/or kiss in pelting rain

July 20, 2007 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile
Urban Cinefile

Writer-director Jonathan Kasdan - he of the much-loved, short-lived Freaks and Geeks -- is no stranger to quirky characters. But why is it then that the characters in Land -- especially the high schoolers -- ring so false?

July 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound
Big Picture Big Sound

Here's a Cameron Crowe film that, oddly enough, wasn't directed by Cameron Crowe.

June 10, 2007 Full Review
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

Ah, poor poor Carter. Will he emerge strengthened or diminished by his encounters in this faraway land?

May 30, 2007 Full Review Source: PopMatters
PopMatters

The script is problematic. Much of it feels half-formed; there are some potentially interesting ideas but they are not really developed well. The audience is supposed to take certain things on face value -- and there are many missed opportunities, particu

May 7, 2007 Full Review Source: Murphy's Movie Reviews
Murphy's Movie Reviews

Unintentionally makes a case for believing that the young have nothing of interest to say to their seniors, and very little of interest to say to each other.

May 3, 2007

Despite Adam's glorious performance, the show stealer was Olympia Dukakiswho was hilarious in every scene. From claiming she was dying every second to answering the front door with no pants. She stole the show for me.

April 30, 2007 Full Review Source: Entertainment Spectrum
Entertainment Spectrum

It hits all the emotional cues right on schedule, pushing an audience's buttons with dull factory precision.

April 30, 2007 Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com
EricDSnider.com

Engaging if underwhelming.

April 29, 2007 Full Review Source: Creative Loafing
Creative Loafing

Shows very little respect for women and makes a youthful male soft-core porn writer into a supposed seer dispensing wisdom.

April 28, 2007 Full Review
Spirituality and Practice

The acting is good, which really is no reason alone to spend good money on seeing this throwaway picture in the theater.

April 28, 2007 Full Review Source: Entertainment Insiders
Entertainment Insiders

I can't recall the last [film] that filled me with the kind of utter loathing and contempt that this one did.

April 28, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com
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Audience Reviews for In the Land of Women

I really liked this movie. Adam Brody did a good job playing the leading man and Kristin Stewart is amazing.
May 6, 2007
gatorgirl13

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Sort've light, sort've intelligent, sort've good. It mainly rides on the performances of Adam Brody, Kristen Stewart and Meg Ryan. The latter two definitely make this as good as it is, while Adam Brody basically just plays a variation of Seth Cohen from The O.C. So the mother/daughter storyline works extremely well, as does their shared time with Adam Brody. However, his time spent alone is utterly worthless and cheesy.
September 1, 2010
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