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... 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 flight attendant, a psychiatrist, a masseuse, a bartender and a pair of call girls -- all with one thing in common: trouble. Carla Gugino ("Sin City") stars as Elektra Luxx, a world-famous porn star whose future is thrown for a loop with the news that she's pregnant and Adrianne Palicki ("Friday Night Lights") is Holly Rocket, a not-too-bright adult industry newcomer with an inconvenient aversion to girl-girl action. Their paths intersect with, among others, a hilariously suave British Rock Star (Josh Brolin), a bright neurotic with a dark past (Connie Britton, "Friday Night Lights") and a call girl with a tricky client (Emmanuelle Chriqui, "Entourage"). The talented cast also includes Marley Shelton (“Grindhouse”), Simon Baker (“The Mentalist”), and Joseph Gordon-Levitt ('500 Days Of Summer"). WOMEN IN TROUBLE had its premiere at the 2009 SXSW Film Festival. --© Screen Media [More]
Starring: Carla Gugino, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Adrianne Palicki, Marley Shelton
Starring: Carla Gugino, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Adrianne Palicki, Marley Shelton, Connie Britton, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Simon Baker
Director: Sebastian Gutierrez
Director: Sebastian Gutierrez
Screenwriter: Sebastian Gutierrez
Composer: Robyn Hitchcock
Studio: Screen Media
Reviews for Women in Trouble
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A lucky alchemy of writer and cast turns what could have been an indie bore into something surprisingly uproarious. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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A tedious dramady about an unappealing group of women in Los Angeles. Full Review |
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A sprightly, sexy, campy and outrageously funny ensemble comedy that's best watched with an open mind and a large audience for maximum enjoyment. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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Women in Trouble has sleeper written all over it and a sequel is already in the works. Full Review |
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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... Full Review |
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Mr. Gutierrez, as suggested by all the décolletage, appears to be a breast man. Too bad he didn’t set his sights higher. Full Review |
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It's a film with undeniably gorgeous parts that never quite develops into a sum. Full Review |
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Unlikely accidents, shared secrets and zany twists combine to whip up a pleasing froth. Full Review |
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The most jeopardy these women confronted was the day they said yes to Women in Trouble. Full Review |
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Unfortunately, while it is a great idea for a sketch, or a web series, it's not a movie length idea. Full Review |
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Penthouse Forum meets Pedro Almodóvar in this frantic slice of trash-masquerading-as-class. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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Women in Trouble awkwardly mixes blue material with sob stories. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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This exuberantly uninhibited indie has the anything-goes spirit of something tossed off in a single burst of collaborative energy. Full Review |
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