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Genres:
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Comedy /
Drama /
Romance
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Director:
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Jon Kasdan
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Actors:
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Meg Ryan,
JoBeth Williams,
Dustin Milligan,
Rob Reinis,
Makenzie Vega,
Elise Gatien,
Christine Danielle,
Kelsey Keel,
Graham Wardle,
Elena Anaya,
Adam Brody,
Danielle Savre,
Gia Mantegna,
Kristen Stewart,
Olympia Dukakis
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Duration:
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94 min.
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Rating:
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(6.8/10)105
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Plot Summary:
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Carter Webb, a sophomoric soft-heart porn writer living in California, has just broken up with close his actress girlfriend. He decides to take a heretofore out and visit his grandmother in Detroit, but the women across the street fool a different idea. He meets the Hardwickes who live next door, the baby, the adolescent, and the petty girl, and they modification each others lives forever.
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In the Land of Women
Kenneth TuranIn his first feature, In the Land of Women, Jonathan Kasdan has made good use of several things he inherited from his father, fellow writer-director Lawrence Kasdan, including a strong supporting actress (JoBeth Williams) and an experienced editor (Carol Littleton). And something more.
The 27-year-old Kasdan also 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.
But the younger Kasdan (whose older brother Jake's own film, the sharp and funny inside-show-business satire The TV Set, hit screens earlier this month) is very much his own person as a writer-director. He's taken stock of the world from an age-specific point of view a...
This little known film is embracingly enioyable
Released in the US in April 2007, 'In the Land of Women' was neither a critical or commercial success. This lead to there being no cinematic release here in the UK, for reasons which are beyond me. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie.
It is very well cast, with a post-OC Adam Brody doing what he demonstrated so well in that shortlived show- deftly neurotic but sweet humour.
Then there is a very heartfelt performance from Meg Ryan, who goes through a personal tragedy during the narrative. These two main protagonists display such convincing chemistry on screen that it makes the film a more believable and touching experience.
I loved that these two characters were so able to connect with one another, two world-weary souls reaching out to each other, culminating in a f...
In the Land of Women
Justin ChangA strong cast struggles valiantly to rise above Lifetime material in In the Land of Women, an appealingly scruffy if overly programmatic drama. Writer-director Jonathan Kasdan's tale about a young man emerging from his relational cocoon rests squarely on the shoulders of its trio of talented lead actors, whose names should draw a limited audience to the Warner Independent Pictures feature.
Played by "The OC's" Adam Brody in his patented so-dorky-he's-cool fashion, 26-year-old aspiring writer Carter Webb has just been dumped by his supermodel g.f. Sophia (Elena Anaya). Leaving L.A., Carter moves in with his half-deranged grandmother (Olympia Dukakis) in suburban Michigan, where he becomes entangled with beautiful housewife Sarah Hardwicke (Meg Ryan, radiat...
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