For as long as he could remember Carter Webb had been falling in love with women. And for as long as he could remember he'd been searching for the right one. He found everything he was looking for in Sophia and for a little while he was happy. Unfortunately it wasn't meant to be. When Carter is dumped by Sophia in a North Hollywood coffee shop he sees his entire life flash before his eyes. Heartbroken and depressed Carter escapes Los Angeles heading across the country to suburban Michigan to care for his ailing grandmother. An eccentric and complicated personality... Grandma offers Carter a uniquely different perspective on life and especially death. Soon after his arrival Carter stumbles into the lives of the family living directly across the street Sarah Hardwicke the mother of two daughters: Paige a precocious effervescent eleven-year-old and her older sister Lucy an angst ridden teenager. While Sarah faces her own personal crisis Lucy wrestles with the fears that define her. Through his relationships with these women as well as his grandmother Carter begins to discover that what felt like the end was really only just the beginning of his adventure. [show more]
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Comedy drama starring Adam Brody and Meg Ryan. After being dumped by his famous actress girlfriend, soft-core porn writer Carter Webb (Brody) travels to Detroit, Michigan to look after his sick grandmother. He immediately hits it off with his grandmother's neighbours, housewife Sarah Hardwicke (Ryan) and her beautiful teenage daughter, Lucy (Kristen Stewart). The relationships he builds with these two and his grandmother lead him to look differently upon his own life and the future ahead of him.
IN THE LAND OF WOMEN is a surprisingly sombre yet funny coming-of-age tale from director Jon Kasdan, and stars Adam Brody in a role not too different from his beloved Seth Cohen on the night-time teen soap THE O.C. Brody, playing a character his own age, breezily inhabits Carter, a loveable but somewhat directionless screenwriter (if you count soft-core porn films) who is dumped by his beautiful but shallow starlet girlfriend Sofia at the start of the film. In crisis mode, he packs up and heads to the Detroit suburb where his senile grandmother (Olympia Dukakis) lives, in an attempt to help her out and get some perspective. While desperately trying to make sense of his grandmother's incoherent ramblings, Carter slaves away at a long-coming screenplay and creates confusing friendships with the mother (Meg Ryan) and daughter (Kristen Stewart) next door. While the film sometimes seems to be grasping for something it can't quite find, it is entertaining throughout, especially for fans of Brody. Thanks to some clever dialogue, quirky characters, and Brody's oddball line delivery, IN THE LAND OF WOMEN manages to get more than a few laughs. That said, the film also deals with serious issues like sickness and death in a light-hearted way. Ryan and Stewart both add depth to what could be one-dimensional characters, and while Brody's performance doesn't feel like much of a stretch, it's nice to see the actor moving towards some slightly more adult material. Kasdan packs the film to the brim with indie pop songs, providing a hip soundtrack for a story that feels contemporary by refusing to fit the traditional romantic-comedy mould.
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