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:20
Fresh:6
Rotten:14
Average Rating:4.5/10
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
It's a film with undeniably gorgeous parts that never quite develops into a sum.
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
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
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
A tedious dramady about an unappealing group of women in Los Angeles.
11/15/09
Penthouse Forum meets Pedro Almodóvar in this frantic slice of trash-masquerading-as-class.
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
This exuberantly uninhibited indie has the anything-goes spirit of something tossed off in a single burst of collaborative energy.
03/31/09
Top CriticThis 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
Gutierrez'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
Top CriticWomen in Trouble has sleeper written all over it and a sequel is already in the works.
11/13/09
Top CriticUnlikely accidents, shared secrets and zany twists combine to whip up a pleasing froth.
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 CriticThe 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
A lucky alchemy of writer and cast turns what could have been an indie bore into something surprisingly uproarious.
11/18/09
The most jeopardy these women confronted was the day they said yes to Women in Trouble.
11/13/09
Apparently, 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
Women in Trouble awkwardly mixes blue material with sob stories.
11/10/09
A good look at men dealing with women and a good look at the supposedly soft side of porn doesn't make a good looking film.
11/16/09
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