In the Land of Women (2007)

What a waste of 2 hours. Don't know how this is rated so high.

refuge after break up. new universe. and different forms of love. lessons of life. and the change. the basic virtue of film is to remind the old fashion romantic comedies. and it is not a small thing. because the humor and performances and romanticism are at the right place. sure, not at the perfect place. but the war between woman and man, the evolution of emotions, the dialogues and the feel to meet, again, after a long time, familiar situations, are the good point for this film who represents the fine definition of the discover of the other.

Traditional Hollywood story. Boy meets girl. Although that's pretty much all that happens. He doesn't get the girl so he can't lose her or get her back.Mainly he acts as a sounding board to the various women in the movie.The ostensible story is that boy goes to the Detroit suburbs (actually Vancouver) to take care of his ailing grandmother, played by Olympia Dukakis. There are several stretches of the movie where Grandma simply disappears. No, she doesn't wander off. She is just not in the story. The writer can't handle that sort of conflict by having the A and B story lines cross.The girl's Father is played by Clark Gregg, whose screen time is less than a minute. He delivers one little speech of maybe two lines and then he is simply not around. He is allegedly having an affair, but not much is made of that. Whether his affair is the cause of the Mother and Daughter's unhappiness and need to talk to Adam Brody, or whether he is having an affair because he is bored with them as much as I was, was not explored.Written and directed by Jon Kasdan, who played a kid in "The Big Chill."

Wow, what a nice little flick! Carter Webb is an unique character that oscillates between being the good boy and the womanizer; either way, he's likable in both situations, and male spectator will surely feel identified with him, one time or another. He deals with different kind of females. An hypochondriac grandmother, an immature teenager and a problematic woman. The grandma is indeed funny, and I loudly laughed in the "I hadn't eaten anything in three weeks" scene; it exposed with sincerity how old people act when they feel lonely and helpless. Even if the portrayal of such character can have a serious connotation, I couldn't help laughing at her manners. The directing and editing are sometimes weird, and I noticed an overuse of editing during conversations, but that doesn't spoil the (many) qualities of the film. The story, for example, is EXTREMELY original, and so are the conversations and the problems that characters deal with. Adam Brody has an amazing performance, and I'm really surprised that I haven't ever seen him before. In some scenes he remembered me of Axl from "The Middle". "In the Land of Women" is, without a doubt, a different movie from anything you've seen, and proves that a low-budget project can be as satisfying (or more) as a Hollywood blockbuster. Give it a try!