The Women

It's all about men!
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DVD Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 13 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: June 14, 2005
  • Originally Released: 1939
  • Label: Warner Home Video

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 62,060
The 1930s original feels more cutting-edge than this re-do. Full Review
Film4
Oct 19, 2012
Rating: 2.5/5 -- Actually quite an acceptable, enjoyable midrange chick flick that hasn't quite deserved the critical drubbing it has received in the States. Full Review
The Age (Australia)
Oct 24, 2008
I love women in real life but at the movies I hated The Women. Full Review
At the Movies
Nov 5, 2008
Rating: 1/4 -- This is the movie Diane English fought to get made the last 15 years? Full Review
TheMovieReport.com
Feb 8, 2009
Rating: 1.5/4 -- The problem isn't just the flat script by director and Murphy Brown creator Diane English. It's that this film's raison d'etre seems to be not to entertain, but to sell. Full Review
Washington Times
Dec 12, 2018
Rating: B- -- The best fun in watching "The Women" is rating who still looks good and whose rose has faded (Carrie Fisher is almost unrecognizable), and ogling the frocks and heels. Full Review
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Aug 17, 2017
Despite its good intentions and high hopes, The Women is not a good movie. It does, though, have plenty of nifty slices. Full Review
Bold Life (Hendersonville, NC)
Aug 25, 2018

Product Description:

Set in a 1930s Manhattan milieu of idle socialites and gossip, George Cukor's THE WOMEN is an opulent rendition of the Clare Boothe Luce play. While no men appear in the film, they are grist for the mill in the social circle of Mary Haines (Norma Shearer) and her catty clique of high-society wives. However, Mary's tidy world is turned upside down when she accidentally learns of her husband's philandering. Crystal Allen (Joan Crawford), a vicious vixen and ruthless gold digger, has set her sights on Mary's husband; Mary initially plays right into her hands, but soon, with the advice and support of comrades experienced in the art of woman-to-woman combat, Mary decides she won't give up without a fight. The tale's semiregressive premise has been criticized for this reason, yet this does not overshadow the host of exceptional performances and the range of complex relationships the film presents. As a fantasy of a women-only world of glamour, idle pleasures, and raw sexual competition, the film has enjoyed a cult following--owing, no doubt, in part to a hard-as-nails performance by Crawford that was credited with reviving her career.

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  • Sales Rank: 120,581
  • UPC: 012569675407
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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