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With: Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith, Bette Midler, Candice Bergen, Carrie Fisher, Cloris Leachman, Debi Mazar, India Ennenga, Jill Flint, Ana Gasteyer, Joanna Gleason, Tilly Scott Pedersen, Lynn Whitfield, Natasha Alam
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Written by: Diane English, based on a screenplay by Anita Loos, Jane Murfin, and on a play by Clare Boothe Luce
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Directed by: Diane English
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sex-related material, language, some drug use and brief smoking
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Running Time: 114
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Date: 09/04/2008
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Chick Change
By Jeffrey M. Anderson TV veteran Diane English ("Murphy Brown") transforms George Cukor's witty, bitchy The Women (1939) into a cuddly, weepy big-screen sitcom. Based all-too-loosely on Clare Boothe Luce's 1936 play, the drama involves Mary (Meg Ryan) whose unseen husband has an affair with a sexy Saks perfume girl (Eva Mendes). Her pals (Annette Bening, Debra Messing and Jada Pinkett Smith) help, and experience dramas of their own. English attempts to modernize the characters, but only manages to set them back; their ideas and breakthroughs come straight from Hallmark cards, rather growing viciously out of "jungle red" nail polish. Ryan and Bening occasionally rise above the material, and Mendes provides credible sex appeal, even if she lacks Joan Crawford's delicious villainy.
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