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In the Land of Women
EMAILPRINTWarner Bros. Pictures
Mixed or average reviews
Based on 29 critic reviews
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Based on 6 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Drama | Romance
Written by: Jon Kasdan
Directed by: Jon Kasdan
Release Date:
Theatrical: April 20, 2007
Running Time: 97 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
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)
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What The Critics Said
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...
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.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
Enjoyable for a movie in which pretty much nothing happens.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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."
Read Full Review >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."
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Connie Ogle
Manages to be entertaining, largely because of the appealing Adam Brody.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
The picture is so gentle, it barely leaves an impression.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
This comedy drama is capably acted and undeniably touching in spots.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Bill White
Most of this is harmless enough, but Kasdan's Hollywood logic is simply too implausible.
Read Full Review >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."
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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."
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Combines hugs and ''pain'' and dialogue so fakey-cute it makes your ears hurt.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 5.8 (out of 10) based on 6 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Bit Burn gave it a7:
Methinks this was a cute film to watch with the wife on a Sunday night!
Ordep Z. gave it a4:
The trailers blow this movie to be somehting of a big heart warmer but in reality the blowing up did nothing for the movie. I was disapointed at Adrien Brody's performance. I mean I know he is young and what not but still there are people who are just his age and have the whole acting thing down pact. His performance in my opinon was the worst in the movie. Meg Ryan's character also was a bit out of place I didnt understand her, its almost as if her character didnt have any common sense. Well overall the movie was a disapointment even though it came out with good intentions I think there could have been a better performance overall.
Chad S. gave it a7:
If "In the Land of the Women" wanted to put more distance between itself and Zach Braff's "Garden State", Carter Webb(Adam Brody) had to get happy in order for us to see if his relationships with Sarah(Meg Ryan) and Lucy(Kristen Stewart) would alter any. Braff's character had an everyman quality, but Carter is different; he's a chick magnet, a sad chick magnet, whose forces of hotness even when set at hangdog, manages to pull a mother and daughter irrevocably towards his lips. When Carter was dating Sofia(Elena Anaya), his hot Latina model-girlfriend, would he have deemed these Wolverine State gals as being below his station? Let's not forget that Carter Webb was born and bred in Los Angeles(his mother, played by JoBeth Williams seems a little snobby). Nevertheless, "In the Land of the Women" withstands the negation of a litmus test for Carter's actual persona, and the "Terms of Endearment"-like trick of reconciling a feuding mother and daughter, to earn the title of "Garden State"-lite replete with one inspired moment(hint: John Hughes' ouevre is mentioned and there's a payoff to the film's name-dropping).
Blanco A. gave it a6:
It's a little movie, sure, but it's worth seeing. I'm glad I checked it out (with the "2" other people in the theater). Brody is solid in this role, and the writers didn't take the audience down the most predictable paths. [BTW: if you're from LA, the character probably went to Crossroads, which is a little interesting. Am I right J.K.?] Meg Ryan's character could have been fleshed out a bit more, but her relationship with the Brody character is really interesting. And while the teenage girl isn't totally believable, her anger & frustration with her mother is fleshed out well, and it services the conclusion of the film nicely. Oh yes, and Olympia Dukakis is a hoot.
Sarah P. gave it a1:
At least it's better than watching the OC. which doesn't say much but it does.
