Ryan returns to the big screen in The Women

The Women

The Women remake brings together laughter, frustration, and sadness to make a great, heart warming story about four women, and their friendship.

Mary Haines (Meg Ryan) is the type of women who can do anything she puts her mind to. She fixes things around the house, retiles bathrooms, cooks for huge parties, designs clothes for her father's company, a wife and a mother. She loves her life, especially since she has three amazing friends, Sylvia (Annette Bening), Alex (Jada Pinkett Smith), and Edie (Debra Messing). That is until a manicure and a perfume girl turn her whole world upside down.

Sylvia, editor and chief of a women's magazine, decides to get a manicure before heading to one of Mary's parties. While the woman is doing her nails, she keeps talking about her friend Crystal (Eva Mendes), a perfume girl, who is dating a married man named Haines. When Sylvia inquires further, she discovers that the man is Mary's husband. After consulting with Alex and Edie, the women decide the best course of action is to tell Mary about the affair. Mary, and her friends, all must face new challenges in their lives, hoping that all of their decisions from here on out will lead them to a better place, and make them into better people.

The Women is an excellent movie. While I have not seen the original, I am sure that this movie did it justice. The movie portrays strong, modern women, who have to face challenges common to many others. The journey they take is both heart warming, and up lifting. Their friendship is one that we can all relate too. The need for companions who know you better than you know yourself, and can help you get through anything. It really is a movie where you come out hoping that you are that strong, and can one day have a life as fulfilled as Mary.

Meg Ryan (In the Land of Women) was amazing. She has been in some of my favourite movies, and while she hasn't been doing as much acting lately, she still has that spark that makes her irresistible to watch. I can't imagine anyone else doing the role better. She did a terrific job being strong and broken at the same time. Her supporting ladies Annette Bening (Running with Scissors), Jada Pinkett Smith (Reign Over Me) and Debra Messing (“Will and Grace”) all played very different women, but each was strong, and each complimented Meg Ryan's character well.

I recommend this movie to anyone who wants to go see a movie that makes them feel good, and laugh at the same time. Go see it with your girlfriends, because no one else will appreciate it the same, or make you appreciate each other in the same way.

Final Words: Saw it. Loved it. “You better drag her ass into the vault,” thank you Ellice and Mia for being the best friends a girl could ask for!