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Release date United States: Thursday, September 11, 2008

Director: Diane English

Cast:

Eva Mendes as Crystal Allen
Meg Ryan as Mary Haines
Jada Pinkett Smith as Miriam Aarons
Carrie Fisher as Nancy Blake
Annette Bening as Sylvia Fowler
Debra Messing as Edith Potter
Cloris Leachman as Maggie
Candice Bergen as Catherine Frazier
Bette Midler as Flora DeLave
Debi Mazar as Olga
Lynn Whitfield as Glenda Hill
Joanna Gleason as Barbara Delacorte
Ana Gasteyer
Keegan Connor Tracy as Dolly Dupuyster
NiCole Robinson as Makeover Lady
Darya Zabinski as Waitress
Natasha Alam as Natasha
Christy Scott Cashman as Emily
Andria Blackman as Bartender
India Ennenga as Molly Haines

About:

Adaptation of Clare Boothe Luce's play of the same name, first made famous by director George Cukor's iconic 1939 film.

Set in New York City's modern whirl of fashion and publishing, "The Women" tells the story of Mary Haines (Meg Ryan), a clothing designer who seems to have it all – a beautiful country home, a rich financier husband, an adorable 11-year-old daughter and a part-time career creating designs for her father's venerable clothing company. Her best friend, Sylvie Fowler (Annette Bening), leads another enviable life – a happily single editor of a prominent fashion magazine, a possessor of a huge closet of designer clothes and a revered arbiter of taste and style poised on New York's cutting edge. But when Mary's husband enters into an affair with Crystal Allen (Eva Mendes), a sultry 'spritzer girl' lurking behind the Saks Fifth Avenue perfume counter, all hell breaks loose. Mary and Sylvie's relationship is tested to the breaking point while their tight-knit circle of friends, including mega-mommy Edie Cohen (Debra Messing) and author Alex Fisher (Jada Pinkett-Smith), all start to question their own friendships and romantic relationships as well.

Genres:
Drama - Comedy

Producers: Diane English, Mick Jagger

Writers: Diane English

Studio: Picturehouse