A sprightly, sexy, campy and outrageously funny ensemble comedy that's best watched with an open mind and a large audience for maximum enjoyment.
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11/13/09
Women in Trouble (2009)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:5
Rotten:13
Average Rating:4.4/10
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: From acclaimed writer-director Sebastian Gutierrez comes an outrageous, genre-bending, multi-layered comedy about one day in the lives of ten seemingly disparate women - including a porn star, a... [More]
Starring: Carla Gugino, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Adrianne Palicki, Marley Shelton
Director: Sebastian Gutierrez
Reviews for Women in Trouble
1 - 19 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
The film has already reduced itself to an empty exercise in campy, color-bathed titillation, as a gaggle of women are defined by their sexual drives and abilities without comment from the filmmaker.
11/13/09
This forced, charmless multi-character movie pretends to show women in all their glorious variety, but it really just traffics in the same old cliches.
11/13/09
Women in Trouble has sleeper written all over it and a sequel is already in the works.
11/13/09
Top CriticApparently, in Gutierrez's mind, expanding the range of humanity available to women on film means they can be porn stars or prostitutes...and they can be catastrophically dumb...
11/13/09
Mr. Gutierrez, as suggested by all the décolletage, appears to be a breast man. Too bad he didn’t set his sights higher.
11/13/09
Top CriticIt's a film with undeniably gorgeous parts that never quite develops into a sum.
11/13/09
Unlikely accidents, shared secrets and zany twists combine to whip up a pleasing froth.
11/13/09
The most jeopardy these women confronted was the day they said yes to Women in Trouble.
11/13/09
Unfortunately, while it is a great idea for a sketch, or a web series, it's not a movie length idea.
11/12/09
Penthouse Forum meets Pedro Almodóvar in this frantic slice of trash-masquerading-as-class.
11/12/09
Too much of Women In Trouble settles for banal instances of infidelity, female bonding, or psychoanalysis when it needs to keep the action going. It’s fine to be inconsequential, as long as the charged-up frivolity never stops.
11/12/09
The attractive cast, notably the earthy Gugino, tries hard to invest the one-note characters with a degree of humanity, but are betrayed at every turn by the thin material.
11/11/09
The film borrows beaucoup Almodóvarisms -- multilayered hysterical heroines, a singular homo-ironic aesthetic -- and reduces them to Podunk wink-wink camp and carping-harpy heroines.
11/11/09
Women in Trouble awkwardly mixes blue material with sob stories.
11/10/09
At a particularly rundown corner of Almodóvar Boulevard and Tarantino Lane, you'll find Women in Trouble, a limp, forgettable collection of interlocking tales all centering on the eponymous narrative setup.
11/10/09
Guys may remember this film as the finest collection of ladies who almost take it all off ever assembled. But in-between all the underwear and fetish outfits is a rather amusing collection of stories described by its very title.
10/08/09
This exuberantly uninhibited indie has the anything-goes spirit of something tossed off in a single burst of collaborative energy.
03/31/09
Top CriticGutierrez's script can't supply female characters as believable as Almodovar's, but in the director's chair he gives his cast room to compensate with funny, self-aware performances.
03/18/09
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