UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

eric262003 With an impressive talent pool of female performers like veterans Meg Ryan, JoBeth Williams and Olympia Dukakis and a younger talented performer like Kristen Stewart, this is the land of women anyone can warm up to. Sadly, "In the Land of Women" director/writer Jon Kasdan's honest approach about a struggling writer who departs Los Angeles to tend to his ailing grandmother in Michigan, fails to give his cast, led by the underrated Adam Brody from "The O.C." a chance fully envelop their acting chops.The movie commences as soft-core porn movie writer Carter Webb (Brody) is in the process of getting dumped by his model/girlfriend Sofia (Elena Anaya). Carter is a harried writer parts ways to suburban Michigan to spend time with his grandmother (Dukakis in role that doesn't have much to challenge her) while it gives the much needed time to work on that novel, he so wishes to finish. Fortuitously, across the street from his grandmother's house live the Hardwicke family who are the need for some well-needed healing for an aspiring writer like himself. We have the mother Sarah (Meg Ryan who got lost in the shuffle since 1997) is suffering from breast cancer. She is joined by her disconnected daughter, Lucy (Stewart looking abnormally slender) who's in a crossroad situation of whether or not she should kiss school jock Gabe (Graham Wardle) or the more meek and humble Eric (Dustin Milligan). And then there's the younger daughter Paige (Mackenzie Vega) who is just another fine line of the typical Hollywood castings to play the smarter beyond their age preteen kids.I'll give kudos to Brody for keeping Carter for playing a solid role as a preoccupied individual, but his part as a protagonist really lacks anything you can feel emphatic about. Ever since the opening scene with the break-up we never see any kind of emotion from Brody except for looking miserable. Maybe Sofia was in the right for dumping this sour puss to begin with. And like Stewart, Brody looks like he's also quite gaunt. Meg Ryan as Sarah shows she's not a has-been as she puts on a wonderful performance as Sarah. However, we don't get to see her that much which makes her role inferior to her glory days making romantic comedies with the likes of Billy Crystal and Tom Hanks. As for Stewart playing role more customized for Evan Rachel Wood, she still stands out as a spoiled teen who also seems to have aspirations for painting. We watch as she slaps those brushes like Jackson Pollack on a canvas and after a quick montage, she created a provocative masterpiece. But her problems still aren't as problematic as the movie makes it out to be.Kasdan from his "Freaks and Geeks" days has no problems when it comes to creating eccentric and quirky characters. But "In The Land of Women" why are all the high school characters feel very superficial? He has tremendous story lines to carry with him, the breast cancer, the affair, the break-up, but then the film teeters off to the more mundane "After School Special" teen dramas (the house party scene was painful to endure). Plus the relationships look to poorly structured it's awkward to even think about. Sarah is too old to be with Carter, plus she's still married while Carter is much older than Lucy to be in any kind of serious relationship. But I'm relieved there was nothing serious about their relationship except for the angst-relieving kiss scene. But why did it taker place on the lawn. Couldn't they do it in a bedroom?Learning a bit from his father Lawrence's legacy, Jon does give his film the right tone, but it's still inferior to the senior Kasdan's "Big Chill". Jon takes great conceit into this film making it lacking in terms of emotion. In spite of the contrivances this movie possesses, there is still a vast amount of sincerity and insightful moments in this movie. But in the end very little amounts to the characters making this film alone feel at times very empty. Kasdan is a very capable director and a writer and I hope in 2018 with a new Han Solo project coming out, we will see where his career will take off after that.

adonis98-743-186503 A sleazy writer has a chance to redeem himself when he goes to stay with his grandmother and befriends the neighbors. In the Land of Women is a very beautiful acted film starring Adam Brody, Meg Ryan and Kristen Stewart and all 3 actors are really good in this film my only problem with the movie is the character of Sofia which seems to still control Brody's character even after they broke he should have been with Lucy they had a lot of great chemistry together and they would have been good together also Ryan's performance and her dealing with cancer was also something that i enjoyed she really fought hard with this thing although the ending felt kinda i don't know forced or just him doing the same mistake he did last time but they never made a sequel so who knows.

Nikhita Prabhudesai This movie is one of the most underrated films if IMDb's got to give it a 6.6. They obviously read the misleading synopsis and saw the misleading poster, expected some amount of explicitness and got disappointed. This film is more than about getting over somebody. It's about how you should treat people, how people should treat you. Carter, the lead character moves in with his grandmother. Being a writer he has a thirst for new stories and characters with depth. He perceives things differently from others and doesn't care to express his opinion if asked for one. The film has such subtle beauty in it, and such full characters that you actually live as someone else for a while. I aspire to make a film like this one someday. Hats off to Jon Kasdan for writing such lovely people. I'd give it a 9/10.

atlasmb The main character is a guy named Carter, a writer of soft porn who lives in California. He is a good listener, so people reveal things about themselves to him. Because he knows that "life is messy", he is not judgmental. He goes to Michigan to live with his grandmother for a while.His grandmother is a quirky/confused woman who may be senile and who has an obsession with the possibility of her own impending death.Across the street lives a family named the Hardwickes. Carter is drawn into the drama of their lives. The mother, Sarah, is not happy in her marriage. Her relationship with her teenage daughter suffers from the usual poor communication/generational issues. The teenage daughter, Lucy, besides dealing with her family issues, is not very self-defined, like many teenagers. She sees a guy who may be her boyfriend.The younger daughter, Paige, is the precocious tween who hides her immaturity with her verbosity and intelligence.Carter negotiates the minefield of the Hardwickes' individual issues and their feelings for each other. In the process, he learns about himself. The story contains some tears, but the overall tone of the film is light. In the Land of Women reminds us of some basic truths: You are lucky to live, so live your life (and no one else's). You are lucky to love another. Art awakens you to real living. Jonathan Kasdan--the writer and director--is the son of Lawrence Kasdan. This film is not a copy of his father's style, but it did remind me of the superior Lawrence Kasdan film, Grand Canyon. I think father would be proud.