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- 2011
- R
- IFC Films
- 1 h 59 m
- 2011
- R
- IFC Films
- 1 h 59 m
Summary Emilia is a Harvard law school graduate and a newlywed, having just married Jack, 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 turn when Jack and Emilia lose their newborn daughter. Emilia struggles through her grief to connect with he...
Directed By: Don Roos
Written By: Ayelet Waldman, Don Roos
- 2011
- R
- IFC Films
- 1 h 59 m
- 2011
- R
- IFC Films
- 1 h 59 m
The Other Woman
37
4.8
Where to Watch
Summary Emilia is a Harvard law school graduate and a newlywed, having just married Jack, 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 turn when Jack and Emilia lose their newborn daughter. Emilia struggles through her grief to connect with he...
Directed By: Don Roos
Written By: Ayelet Waldman, Don Roos
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
37
19% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
56% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
25% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
37
19% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
56% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
25% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
The Other Woman isn't a perfect film, but it makes better use of her (Portman) talents than her other current movie, "No Strings Attached."
The Other Woman earns a viewer's respect for the grace notes that director-screenwriter Don Roos finds beneath these familiar tunes, for the unassertive skill with which he paints upper-class life on the Upper East Side, and for the rightness of the performances.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 18 User Ratings
4.8
22% Positive
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
50% Mixed
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
28% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 18 User Ratings
4.8
22% Positive
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
50% Mixed
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
28% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
A guilt for losing the own baby and being labelled as a bad step-mother.
It is also known as 'Love and Other Impossible Pursuits', which is the name of the book the film was adapted. According to me this is a very underrated film. Especially Natalie Portman was never seen before. This film was beautiful because of her. Might have been the same if any other actress who had played that role, but the thing is the character Emilia makes this story great. I would have given any top award the available around the globe for that incredible character display. It should have been recognised, sadly that did not happen because of the filthy film critics.
Feels good watching it. This might not be a biographical film, but surely this is happening around us. The writing was so impressive. How the character Emilia was portrayed is the film's highlight. It was a simple character, that does not mean the life has to be simple as well. She falls in love with a married man and later she get married to him to become a step-mother to his child. That's where the problem arises when her baby dies in her arm, everybody points her for not being cautious with her step-son. This is a big task and how she comes out of it was revealed with lots of small twists and turns in the tale.
Not just Natalie, but all the supporting cast was brilliant, including the husband, the kid and the ex. The story of loss, marriage, taking care a child and other struggles in life. Initially it did not look good with those affairs, but when it got past the half way mark, the rest of the film rebalanced the entire film. I liked how it ended. That final scene was very good. Even if you are an atheist, that end dialogues makes the major difference to favour the film. I haven't read the book, but seems the film was better than the book. Being a film fanatic and failing to recommending it to you would be a mistake. So I recommend it to particularly the grown-ups.
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I know one very similar to this movie and much better too, called "Stepmom" with Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon and Ed Harris. The truth is that this drama (call it the novel would be too absurd) can have the most unsympathetic characters possible. Natalie Portman strives to give credibility to Emily, but the abuse of recurring return to the premature death of the daughter is the actress crippling any attempt to make her character more three-dimensional! Nevertheless, it is the best on the scene because her husband apparently indifferent and soothing, the conflicted ex-wife and the son verbally aggressive and nasty drawback is sufficient reason to abandon that Emily left the life in the midst of that family. It's a tearjerker poorly done and most obvious example of this is the final 30 minutes to extend into dialogue with another party of Emily solving not only the loose ends of the film as a whole, but of her life, as if only a simple conversation could unlock and enter the core of the personality and feelings.
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The problem, however, lies squarely with Portman herself, who (Oscar nod or no) seems unlikely to ever achieve a tone between histrionic and affectless.
Roos works from the edge of a precipice as well, distending the melodrama in his films until it finally tumbles in subtle, observant satire; Kudrow, who etches each pause in acid, was born to speak his dialogue.
It becomes a parade of interpersonal conflict and miserable circumstances that adds up to nothing less than angst-porn.
Though lazily mocking hyper-vigilant parenting, the film treats the moldiest clichés - as gospel.
Lest my own reaction be misconstrued, let me explain that I didn't like a single one of these insufferable narcissists, the kid included.
This film is an adaptation and revolves around the life of a woman played by Natalie Portman, and the film is actually based on her shoulders. But Portman himself is monotonous in playing the role and is not very successful.
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Natalie Portman and Lisa Kudrow give fantastic performances, but sadly they are featured in a terrible dramatically uneven awkward film that won't get them noticed anytime soon. I give this film 28%.
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Production Company
Incentive Filmed Entertainment,
Handsomecharlie Films,
Is or Isn't Entertainment,
Marc Platt Productions
Release Date Feb 4, 2011
Duration 1 h 59 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline Love makes everything possible.
Website
http://wed-emilia.jp/
