The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-wedded Mary Haines finds her marriage in trouble when shop girl Crystal Allen gets her hooks into Mary's man.
The classic 1939 film adaptation... worth seeing again and again. This is not.
– Ben Mankiewicz,
At the Movies,
5 Nov 2008
rotten:
I love women in real life but at the movies I hated The Women.
– Ben Lyons,
At the Movies,
5 Nov 2008
rotten:
The funniest thing about The Women is that Mick Jagger is one of the producers. There was a knowing laugh in the theatre as his name sprang up in the opening credits -- our last chance to laugh, as it turned out, for the next two hours.
– Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
15 Sep 2008
rotten:
One of the worst movies I've ever seen.
– Richard Schickel,
TIME Magazine,
12 Sep 2008
rotten:
In the end, English just wants to make a nice chick flick with some sassy lines. Genuine nastiness has been eliminated, while not-very-funny banter is retained.