Film Review: In the Land of Women

This comes pretty close to being the worst movie I have ever seen. I am such a good soul to inform you less you spend your money and feel totally taken. I couldn’t let that happen to you. Nobody can act and the script is ridiculous. I thought that a film with Adam Brody, Meg Ryan and Olympia Dukakis would have something going. Forget it. Adam Brody plays the part (or tries to) of Carter. Carter writes soft porn. His beautiful girlfriend, Sophia, dumps him. I would have liked to have seen more of her. She is gorgeous. Carter is so upset and decides to go and see his ailing grandmother in Wisconsin to get over his lost love. Grandmother Phyllis is played by Olympia Dukakis. Phyllis is convinced she is dying. I don’t think the writer director, Jon Kasdan, had a clear picture of her character. At times she is a grumpy old lady. At other times she seems demented. I just can’t quite believe her role. Phyllis lives in a run down uncared for house. Carter does try to clean things up and to care for her. He also spends a lot of time with the neighbors. The next door house is prim and attractive in great contrast to grandmother Phyllis’s house. Sarah is the mother who lives next door and is played by Meg Ryan. Is it believable that she would bring bought cookies to Carter (barely in his twenties) She asks him to walk with her and spills out her heart. Her husband is having an affair and her two daughters do not communicate well with her. Sarah discovers she has breast cancer and fears she is going to die. It is as if the writer is trying to being in every emotion but doesn’t clearly develop the plot. I was not surprised when Carter kisses Sarah. It was a natural development. It gets a little tricky when daughter Lucy also seems to be falling for Carter. Can you imagine how Sarah feels when she sees her daughter kissing the same young man she had kissed? (Too much emotion for me) Lucy has her own problems with the young men in her life. How does it all end? Do you care? It doesn’t really matter because it is all contrived and not really important.