Movie Info
Genre
Comedy, DramaRelease Date
September 12, 2008MPAA Rating
PG-13Production Budget
$18 millionsStudio
Picturehouse EntertainmentOfficial Site
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Cast and Crew
Director
Diane EnglishProducer
Diane English, Victoria Pearman, Mick Jagger, Bill JohnsonScreenwriter
Diane EnglishStarring
- Meg Ryan as Mary Haines
- Annette Bening as Sylvia Fowler
- Eva Mendes as Crystal Allen
- Debra Messing as Edie Cohen
- Jada Pinkett Smith as Alex Fisher
- Carrie Fisher
- Cloris Leachman
- Debi Mazar
- Bette Midler as Flora DeLave
- Candice Bergen as Catherine Frazier
Movie Story
Adaptation of Clare Boothe Luce's play of the same name, first made famous by director George Cukor's iconic 1939 film.
Set in New York City's modern whirl of fashion and publishing, "The Women" tells the story of Mary Haines (Meg Ryan), a clothing designer who seems to have it all -- a beautiful country home, a rich financier husband, an adorable 11-year-old daughter and a part-time career creating designs for her father's venerable clothing company. Her best friend, Sylvie Fowler (Annette Bening), leads another enviable life -- a happily single editor of a prominent fashion magazine, a possessor of a huge closet of designer clothes and a revered arbiter of taste and style poised on New York's cutting edge. But when Mary's husband enters into an affair with Crystal Allen (Eva Mendes), a sultry 'spritzer girl' lurking behind the Saks Fifth Avenue perfume counter, all hell breaks loose. Mary and Sylvie's relationship is tested to the breaking point while their tight-knit circle of friends, including mega-mommy Edie Cohen (Debra Messing) and author Alex Fisher (Jada Pinkett-Smith), all start to question their own friendships and romantic relationships as well.
