Ryan returns to the big screen in 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.
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!