In the Land of Women (2007)
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Romantic Comedy, Los Angeles, California
Starring: Adam Brody, Meg Ryan, Kristen Stewart, Makenzie Vega, Clark Gregg
Screenwriter: Jon Kasdan
Producer: Steve Golin, David Kanter, Barbara Kelly
Composer: Stephen Trask
DVD Info
Release:
Oct 30, 2007
DVD Features:
- Anamorphic Widescreen
- Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
- Dolby Surround 5.1 - English, Spanish
- Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
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Reviews
As soon as it's over, you start forgetting about it. It's not a bad movie, it's just fine.
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.
I distrust any film in which people stand and argue and/or kiss in pelting rain
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.
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.
There's no denying that "In the Land of Women" has its moments of endearment, but Jon Kasdan's weepy coming-of-age dramedy lacks emotional authenticity.
While it catches something of the romantic zeitgeist of this time, much in the way The Big Chill did in the early '80s, I suspect this won't have the same stamina.
The "young man's post-traumatic discovery of life's value through quirky people tale" is an obscure genre that's somehow attracted Zach Braff, Cameron Crowe and Jon Kasdan.
Apart from borrowing from Garden State and In Her Shoes, there's a sense of Big Chill Lite -- made by someone with a much lamer record collection.
Only slightly less clumsy overall than Against the Ropes, but at least it plays to co-star Meg Ryan’s ability to suggest volumes of repressed emotion.
The peculiarly male self-centeredness seen here is repulsive and astonishing. Meg Ryan's breast cancer, the grandmother's dementia, the teenage girl's angst: All these traumas primarily exist to help a young man find himself.
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