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- 2020
- R
- Amazon Studios
- 2 h
- 2020
- R
- Amazon Studios
- 2 h
Summary In this 1970s set crime drama, a woman is forced to go on the run after her husband betrays his partners, sending her and her baby on a dangerous journey.
Directed By: Julia Hart
Written By: Jordan Horowitz, Julia Hart
- 2020
- R
- Amazon Studios
- 2 h
- 2020
- R
- Amazon Studios
- 2 h
I'm Your Woman
63
6.1
Summary In this 1970s set crime drama, a woman is forced to go on the run after her husband betrays his partners, sending her and her baby on a dangerous journey.
Directed By: Julia Hart
Written By: Jordan Horowitz, Julia Hart
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
63
56% Positive
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
36% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
8% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
63
56% Positive
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
36% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
8% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
It’s an exciting ride, but with a wallop of genuine feeling underneath that makes it one of this year’s best films.
I’m Your Woman owes much to Brosnahan’s evolving performance as she goes from terrified housewife to trenchant survivalist over the course movie, and the movie consolidates the strengths of Hart’s previous work.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 18 User Ratings
6.1
56% Positive
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
33% Mixed
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
11% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 18 User Ratings
6.1
56% Positive
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
33% Mixed
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
11% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
I'm Your Woman was a really good movie. Rachel Brosnahan's performance was phenomenal. The writing was stupendous especially the story. The costumes were excellent especially ones wore by Rachel Brosnahan and Marsha Stephanie Blake. The makeup and hairstyling was superb especially on Rachel Brosnahan. The music was terrific.
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Jean (Rachel Brosnahan) is a woman about to have her world upturned. Unable to have children her husband Eddie (Bill Heck) comes home one day with a baby boy and tells her that this is their new child. In the new Amazon Original Film “I’m Your Woman”; Jean is unexpectedly forced to go on the run with her child when an associate of Eddie tells her that things have gone very wrong and they must flee right away.
It seems Eddie is more than a simple petty crook and has upset the wrong people resulting in Jean being forced into hiding. Her protector Cal (Arinze Kene); offers few answers about Eddie’s fate but tells Jean that the danger is very real.
The fact that Cal is African American and driving a white woman and her baby around in the 1970s does raise some eyebrows and makes keeping a low profile even harder. This results in Cal setting Jean and her son up in a home with instructions to not speak with nor befriend anyone and to only plug in the phone and call a number should danger arise.
What follows is a steadily paced film that does not fall on the usual Hollywood tropes of extended action scenes and chases as Jean attempts to stay alive and get away from the danger that has taken over her life.
The film is a departure from her Mrs. Maisel character and it is refreshing to see an interesting story that is content to move at a steady pace and develop characters versus the need to insert an action scene in every 10 minutes.
The cast and story are engaging and the film makes for a very entertaining watch and one well worth a look.
4 stars out of 5
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Hart and Horowitz map this hero’s journey onto her growth as a mother, her empowerment proving to be a source not just of strength, but love — a rare commodity in a crime flick.
Hart is interested in scrambling our sympathies yet not deft enough to manage where they land, and the female buddy movie I’m Your Woman wants to be unintentionally ends up feeling like a story about a Black couple as seen by their less interesting white acquaintance.
Even when it’s coasting, the cast still works hard to sell what they’re given and it remains visually handsome until the very end, an immersive and slickly captured last-act car chase proving a standout.
Unfortunately, Hart and her co-writer/husband Jordan Horowitz don’t have much more to offer than a different perspective – and no POV shift can compensate for a film that looks otherwise so familiar in its twists and turns.
This is the kind of movie where the most dynamic thing in every scene is the art direction, followed by the natty retro costumes (which Jean must have used the cash to buy, since she didn’t have time to pack), and only then comes the people.
Very good. I just wish they’d gotten the ensemble together sooner, we spend too much time just listening to Harry cry. Other than that the pacing it’s good, things escalate at the right time and there’s just enough information vs mystery to guess what might happen next but you’re always a little bit wrong so it keeps you guessing.
Rachel and Marsha have GREAT chemistry, but I can’t help but think that Teri’s story is a bit more interesting than Jean’s. Does Jean have a wardrobe that matches each safe house?? Looks good but it’s a bit odd.
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Decent overall. The story just wasn't compelling or interesting enough to stand out. The climax was underwhelming. Performances were good and the setting well rendered. Rachel Brosnahan's performance was strong but limited by the muted arc of the story.
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Interesting dramatic turn for Rachel Brosnahan after her acclaimed comedy role in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, but I definitely think it wasn't the right movie for her.
It reminded me a lot of John Cassavetes' Gloria, although clearly the differences are quite palpable, after all the character's journey here is to teach herself to fend for herself now that she's in a dangerous situation, however it takes a long time for the film gain traction.
Almost the entire first half hour had me intrigued, but not in a good way, but because I didn't know what the hell the story was trying to do.
What I liked was the narrative of self-discovery the main character goes through, because she learns that she's not a defenseless being and must see for herself and the baby, but considering the story is also imbued with elements of a thriller, this aspect of the narrative gets quite relegated, because there's the clear tension of the persecution, but it never feels like they're in real danger, but that they are being persecuted by a flock of incompetents.
Functional in most of its execution, and entertaining if you have nothing to see in the weekend, but ultimately it will become a forgettable experience.
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(Mauro Lanari)
Female empowerment also passes through becoming wives and mothers on a par with their hitmen husbands: I wouldn't be so enthusiastic about it.
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Production Company
Big Indie Pictures,
Original Headquarters,
Scrap Paper Pictures
Release Date Dec 4, 2020
Duration 2 h
Rating R
Awards
Women's Image Network Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
ReFrame
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Chicago International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
