Women in Trouble (2009)
Average Rating: 4.1/10
Reviews Counted: 23
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 17
Sebastian Gutierrez certainly has an eye for the beauty of the female form, but Women in Trouble lacks a compelling script or point of view to go with its curvaceous visual appeal.
Average Rating: 4.6/10
Critic Reviews: 9
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 6
Sebastian Gutierrez certainly has an eye for the beauty of the female form, but Women in Trouble lacks a compelling script or point of view to go with its curvaceous visual appeal.
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Filmmaker Sebastian Gutierrez writes and directs this ensemble comedy following ten Los Angeles women over the course of 24 hours. When porn starlet Electra Luxx (Carla Gugino) discovers that she's pregnant, her wild world of pleasure and excess is suddenly turned upside down. Subsequently stuck in an elevator with neurotic Doris (Connie Britton), Electra realizes she's standing at a pivotal crossroads in life. Meanwhile, adult film up-and-comer Holly Rocket (Adrianne Palicki) struggles with her
Nov 13, 2009 Wide
Mar 9, 2010
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Cast
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Carla Gugino
Elektra Luxx -
Emmanuelle Chriqui
Bambi -
Adrianne Palicki
Holly Rocket -
Marley Shelton
Cora -
Connie Britton
Doris -
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Bert Rodriguez -
Simon Baker
Travis McPherson -
Ermahn Ospina
El Capitan -
Dan Mailley
Doctor -
Xander Berkeley
Mr. Frost -
Elizabeth Berkley
Tracy -
Josh Brolin
Nick Chapel -
Garcelle Beauvais
Maggie -
Greg Lauren
Fireman -
Rya Kihlstedt
Rita -
Sarah Clarke
Maxine McPherson -
Caitlin Keats
Addy -
Samantha Shelton
Singer -
Paul Cassell
Jay -
Cameron Richardson
Darby -
Lauren Katz
Tara -
Isabella Gutierrez
Charlotte -
Antonio Grana
Jimbo -
Trish Donohue
Nurse
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All Critics (24) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (17) | DVD (4)
In the "whatever were they thinking of" genre, a new entry: Women in Trouble.
Top CriticThis forced, charmless multi-character movie pretends to show women in all their glorious variety, but it really just traffics in the same old cliches.
Women in Trouble has sleeper written all over it and a sequel is already in the works.
Mr. Gutierrez, as suggested by all the décolletage, appears to be a breast man. Too bad he didn't set his sights higher.
Unlikely accidents, shared secrets and zany twists combine to whip up a pleasing froth.
The attractive cast, notably the earthy Gugino, tries hard to invest the one-note characters with a degree of humanity, but are betrayed at every turn by the thin material.
Gutierrez's story is structurally clichéd ... but, worse still, his characters are uniformly unbelievable and two-dimensional.
A lucky alchemy of writer and cast turns what could have been an indie bore into something surprisingly uproarious.
A good look at men dealing with women and a good look at the supposedly soft side of porn doesn't make a good looking film.
A tedious dramady about an unappealing group of women in Los Angeles.
A sprightly, sexy, campy and outrageously funny ensemble comedy that's best watched with an open mind and a large audience for maximum enjoyment.
The film has already reduced itself to an empty exercise in campy, color-bathed titillation, as a gaggle of women are defined by their sexual drives and abilities without comment from the filmmaker.
Apparently, in Gutierrez's mind, expanding the range of humanity available to women on film means they can be porn stars or prostitutes...and they can be catastrophically dumb...
It's a film with undeniably gorgeous parts that never quite develops into a sum.
The most jeopardy these women confronted was the day they said yes to Women in Trouble.
Unfortunately, while it is a great idea for a sketch, or a web series, it's not a movie length idea.
Penthouse Forum meets Pedro Almodóvar in this frantic slice of trash-masquerading-as-class.
Too much of Women In Trouble settles for banal instances of infidelity, female bonding, or psychoanalysis when it needs to keep the action going. It's fine to be inconsequential, as long as the charged-up frivolity never stops.
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Good movie! The film makes you laugh much more than expected, but keeps its heart in the midst of all the appropriately titled trouble. It's too real to just become a comedy or a tragedy or a drama, this film is an intoxicating blur of emotions. This movie basically ends up being about womanly camaraderie, and the bond that ties all women in all walks of life together, I think. However, it's also got enough sex talk, women in underwear, zany situations, and even a degree of bathroom humor, that'll keep guys interested. PS. Keep watching after the credits. There's a cute little satirical interview with the "porn stars", conducted by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. It's not quite up to the level of the material in the rest of the movie, but still worth watching.
Several women (and one girl) in L.A. are hiding something from someone else, or discovering something hidden from them. Maxine, a therapist, discovers her husband cheating on her with the mother of Charlotte, a 13-year old patient. Addy (the other woman) and her sister Doris have withheld from the girl the truth of her parentage. Holly, an adult film actor, isn't telling her friend Bambi how she feels about her, and another actor, Elektra, who discovers she's pregnant, hasn't told the baby's father that she loves him. A stuck elevator, a car crash, mid-air turbulence, a flight attendant, a shotgun-wielding bartender, and her roommate, who's a masseuse, help these women communicate.