The Other Woman (2011)
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Reviews Counted: 44
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 27
Natalie Portman and Lisa Kudrow deliver fine performances in The Other Woman, but they're muted by Don Roos' clumsy direction and cluttered, melodramatic script.
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Critic Reviews: 17
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 12
Natalie Portman and Lisa Kudrow deliver fine performances in The Other Woman, but they're muted by Don Roos' clumsy direction and cluttered, melodramatic script.
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Natalie Portman (BLACK SWAN, STAR WARS) lights up the screen in this frank, funny, and heart-wrenching adaptation of bestselling author Ayelet Waldman's novel about life, loss, and family, "LOVE AND OTHER IMPOSSIBLE PURSUITS." Emilia (Portman) is a Harvard law school graduate and a newlywed, having just married Jack (Scott Cohen, THE UNDERSTUDY), a high-powered New York lawyer, who was her boss - and married - when she began working at his law firm. Unfortunately, her life takes an unexpected
Feb 4, 2011 Limited
May 17, 2011
$20.6k
IFC Films
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Cast
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Natalie Portman
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Scott Cohen
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Lisa Kudrow
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Charlie Tahan
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Debra Monk
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Anthony Rapp
Simon -
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Lauren Ambrose
Mindy -
Elizabeth Marvel
Pia -
Mona Lerche
Sonia
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All Critics (44) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (27)
It's a kind of unofficial sequel or sibling, three decades later, to Robert Benton's Oscar-winning Kramer vs. Kramer.
Top CriticOften mistakes hollow hysterics for gripping drama.
One of the bigger challenges in Natalie Portman's career, and she responds with sublime work.
Soap opera for the bourgeoisie, The Other Woman is the kind of movie Lifetime audiences would gush over as sensitive and wise.
Natalie Portman may have the black swan and the white swan down, but she's still working on the gray.
While Natalie Portman and Lisa Kudrow do some terrific work, it's hard to care about these awful characters.
although it is a little more glossy than the novel it is based on, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits is a mature and thoughtful look at the dynamics of the 21st-century family unit.
a picture that doesn't know itself: vague whenever it needs to be specific, bloats whenever it needs to trim.
Don Roos' movie demonstrates Natalie Portman's range, but it leans too heavily on her bad behavior, ignoring the growth the character experiences in a schizophrenic third act.
For a picture that really isn't much more than a high-toned soap opera...surprisingly effective.
Resembles a number of recent Woody Allen pictures, except without the quality of jokes that leaven even Allen's worst explorations of this turf.
Right now, Portman commands the cineplexes as surrogate for misguided, self-pitying filmmakers.
The film tacks on a lot of issues and then it never quite follows any of them through.
As good as it is at times, The Other Woman never nears greatness; it lacks the mettle and focus to push beyond well-groomed melodrama.
Espouses smart and meaningful insights into the challenges of falling in love with the "wrong" man and joining a family in which one might not be the most natural fit.
More affectingly honest about contemporary, complicated parenthood than a traditional chick flick love story. Kudrow pulls off the [most] difficult, crucial scene.
Slow-moving but mature drama looks at aftermath of affair.
Poignant portrait of a mother dealing with her grief over the death of her infant daughter and struggling with the need to wall herself off from those closest to her.
What happens when a film director falls for a novel crammed with Incredible Moments of Heartbreaking Emotion and turns it into a movie crammed with Incredible Moments of Heartbreaking Emotion
Audience Reviews for The Other Woman
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- Emilia: She's gone. I know the difference between here and gone.
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- Carolyn: This is all your fault. You just won't be happy until you ruin everything. I don't know what the hell happened to make you so destructive.
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- Jack: The days william was born and Isabel was born were the happiest of my life.
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- William: Did you know that Isabel was never really a person?...In Jewish law, it says a baby is not a person until it's at least eight days old. And Isabel was only three days old when she died, so that means she was never really a person.
- Emilia: Where did you hear that?
- William: My mother.
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- Emilia: What kid doesn't love tofu?...Think of all the little boys that died eating food directly from the container.
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- William: I wonder what temperature poop freezed at?
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Foreign Titles
- Love and Other Impossible Pursuits (DE)
- Love and Other Impossible Pursuits (UK)
