Synopsis
After a bad breakup with his girlfriend leaves him heartbroken, Carter Webb moves to Michigan to take care of his ailing grandmother. Once there, he gets mixed up in the lives of the mother and daughters who live across the street.
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Cast
- Meg RyanSarah Hardwicke
- Kristen StewartLucy Hardwicke
- Adam BrodyCarter Webb
- JoBeth WilliamsAgnes Webb
- Olympia DukakisPhyllis
- Makenzie VegaPaige Hardwicke
- Elena AnayaSofia Buñuel
- Kelsey KeelTeenage Girl
- Danielle SavreTeenage Girl
- Gia MantegnaTeenage Girl
Recommendations
- 70
Newsweek
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. - 50
Variety
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
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
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
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. - 42
The A.V. Club
"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
Soppy, schematic weepie. - 42
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Most of this is harmless enough, but Kasdan's Hollywood logic is simply too implausible.
