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In the Land of Women
Warner Bros. Pictures
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for sexual content, thematic elements and language
Starring
Adam Brody,
Kristen Stewart,
Meg Ryan,
Olympia Dukakis,
Makenzie Vega,
Elena Anaya,
Clark Gregg,
and
JoBeth Williams
Carter Webb (Brody), a screenwriter living in L.A., goes into a tailspin when he is dumped by his beautiful, movie-star girlfriend. He decides to go visit his sick grandmother (Dukakis) in Michigan to take stock of his life. Once there, Carter is pulled into the lives of a neighborhood woman (Ryan) and her two daughters (Stewart and Vega), who are going through some tough times of their own. (Warner Bros. Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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Drama
|
Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Jon Kasdan
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Jon Kasdan
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| RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: April 20, 2007
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| RUNNING TIME: |
97 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
83
Portland Oregonian
Marc Mohan
Solid acting, especially from the women, and a few good Colin Farrell jokes make this familiar tale better than it probably should be.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Fresh, funny and perceptive.

75
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Uneven and affecting movie.

75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Enjoyable for a movie in which pretty much nothing happens.

75
TV Guide
Ken Fox
If you can get past the lips, Ryan gives a touching performance as a woman determined to battle her cancer while knowing life offers no guarantees except death -- an understanding no doubt sharpened by Kasdan's own experience battling Hodgkin's disease as a teenager.

75
USA Today
Claudia Puig
What gives In the Land of Women its singular charm is the charismatic Adam Brody, the star of TV's "The OC."

70
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
The 27-year-old Kasdan displays an ability to bring a refreshing, human touch to what could be overly familiar material that echoes what his father did in films like "The Big Chill" and "Body Heat."

70
Newsweek
David Ansen
Kasdan has made a winning if overly pat first feature notable for its keen ear, its preference for character over plot and its refreshing modesty.

63
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
Manages to be entertaining, largely because of the appealing Adam Brody.

60
Film Threat
Stina Chyn
Isn't a bad film per se--it’s just an empty film.

50
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
The picture is so gentle, it barely leaves an impression.

50
The Hollywood Reporter
Luke Sader
Probably needed more originality than is on display. With an age-old cinema theme of a young man's maturation, it also needs to land female ticket-buyers but seems a lot like something women could find at home on the WE channel.

50
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
In the Land of Women sounds like a piece of cheap science fiction about the last man on earth. If you're the lovelorn mother and daughter in Jonathan Kasdan's first movie, a grating romantic drama, that's painfully close to the truth.

50
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Despite its desperate attempts to appeal to every possible age group, there is no obvious audience for this movie.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
To his credit, writer-director Jonathan Kasdan is sensitive and observant...But he doesn't know what he's talking about, not really, and though he structures the film around his areas of ignorance, that only works partially.

50
Variety
Justin Chang
A strong cast struggles valiantly to rise above Lifetime material in In the Land of Women, an appealingly scruffy if overly programmatic drama.

50
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Despite a title that makes this movie sound as though it might be the latest madcap offering from Pedro Almodóvar, In the Land of Women is a much more conventional affair – a tame yet appealing melodrama about finding one's self that is alternately formulaic and unique.

50
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Kasdan has inherited much of his father's surface skills; he knows how to round out a scene and keep things on story point. But In the Land of Women doesn't for a moment feel messy and chaotic where it counts.

50
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
The movie refuses to descend into the cute smarminess of a mutual recovery drama, thanks to originally conceived characters. We're always wondering -- and wonderfully surprised -- by their choices.

50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
With its wry tone and mild emotional disturbances, In the Land of Women is less a chick flick than a chick flicker.

50
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
This comedy drama is capably acted and undeniably touching in spots.

42
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
"Women" confirms that the only thing less enjoyable than enduring long, drawn-out conversations about feelings and relationships in real life is watching movies about people having long, drawn-out conversations about feelings and relationships.

42
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Soppy, schematic weepie.

42
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Bill White
Most of this is harmless enough, but Kasdan's Hollywood logic is simply too implausible.

40
Village Voice
Jessica Grose
Maudlin, formulaic affair.

40
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
The meek, mopey comedy In the Land of Women is the film equivalent of a sensitive emo band with one foot in alternative rock and the other in the squishy pop mainstream: a softer, fuzzier "Garden State."

38
Premiere
Ethan Alter
Like the equally dull romantic drama "Catch and Release," which was in theaters for a nanosecond back in January, In the Land of Women strains to convince the audience to that it's telling a real story about real people. But with its glossy visuals and photo-shoot ready cast, the movie ends up presenting us with the very opposite of reality.

25
New York Post
Kyle Smith
In the Land of Women is one of those films informed by intimate personal experience - the experience of seeing "Garden State."

0
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Combines hugs and ''pain'' and dialogue so fakey-cute it makes your ears hurt.


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