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The Women
Starring:
Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Debra Messing, Eva Mendes
Review:
Updating a comedy classic is not a good idea. Case in point:
this misbegotten redo of Clare Booth Luce's 1936 play (and 1939
movie) about pampered Manhattan women who gossip about men who are
never seen. Think Sex and the City without the sex.
Murphy Brown creator Diane English has been trying to do
this movie since her sitcom went off the air in 1998. It's finally
here, and it's a major dud. A big-name cast of actresses gives it a
go, but everyone from Meg Ryan as the cheated-on wife to Eva Mendes
as the home-wrecking perfume girl struggles with a script that
resists being crowbarred into the 21st century. OK, the ladies do
more bonding than belittling each other, but the jokes barely
escape their lips before they wither and die. Ironically, it's
Murphy herself, Candice Bergen, in a cameo...
Rating:
1 Star
Published: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:11:12 GMT - Source: Rollingstone.Com - Read the article
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