In the Land of Women (2006)
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.
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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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.
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Adam Brody
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Kristen Stewart
Lucy Hardwicke -
Meg Ryan
Sarah Hardwicke -
Olympia Dukakis
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Makenzie Vega
Paige Hardwicke -
Elena Anaya
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Clark Gregg
Nelson Hardwicke -
JoBeth Williams
Agnes Webb -
Dustin Milligan
Eric Watts -
Ginnifer Goodwin
Janey -
Kelsey Keel
Teenage Girl -
Danielle Savre
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Gina Mantegna
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Robert Reinis
Avi Rosenberg -
Graham Wardle
Gabe Foley -
Elise Gatien
Tiffany -
Christine Danielle
Tanya -
Jeff Cunningham
Howard Portchnik -
Tamara Lovegrove
Party Girl -
Brittany Starling
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Ilyse Mimoun
Nelson's Assistant -
Karin Konoval
Dr. Ida Rosen -
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All Critics (117) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (51) | Rotten (66) | DVD (2)
A movie with one awkward identity crisis.
Top CriticThe screenplay by Kasdan is soggy with earnest clichés.
The film belongs to Brody, an endearing screen presence.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As soon as it's over, you start forgetting about it. It's not a bad movie, it's just fine.
Touching-but-treacly chick flick for moms & teens.
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.
Kasdan's gift for the smart crack is consistently undercut by a well-developed taste for schmalz.
I distrust any film in which people stand and argue and/or kiss in pelting rain
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?
Here's a Cameron Crowe film that, oddly enough, wasn't directed by Cameron Crowe.
Ah, poor poor Carter. Will he emerge strengthened or diminished by his encounters in this faraway land?
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
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.
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.
It hits all the emotional cues right on schedule, pushing an audience's buttons with dull factory precision.
Engaging if underwhelming.
Shows very little respect for women and makes a youthful male soft-core porn writer into a supposed seer dispensing wisdom.
The acting is good, which really is no reason alone to spend good money on seeing this throwaway picture in the theater.
I can't recall the last [film] that filled me with the kind of utter loathing and contempt that this one did.
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