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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0796019810470
Format: Color, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Weinstein Company
Manufacturer: Weinstein Company
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Weinstein Company
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 12, 2008
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 9329
Studio: Weinstein Company
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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A romantic Comedy about a successful professional woman who runs into trouble in her love life when she meets a younger man.
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I Could Never Be Your Woman is an Amy Heckerling film in the very best sense: very funny, culturally relevant, a little bitter and a little sweet. Heckerling's body of work is often labeled inconsistent: On the plus side, you have teen classics Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Clueless, both of which captured the '80s and '90s zeitgeists perfectly and were huge commercial and critical successes. On the other, more disappointing side, we find the Look Who's Talking trilogy and A Night at the Roxbury. After her last foray behind the camera, the mildly funny but pretty uninteresting film The Loser, Heckerling has come back with an extremely entertaining and likeable movie that has unfortunately been overshadowed by a lot of controversy regarding the film's release and studio politics. I Could Never Be Your Woman is a movie about Rosie, a divorced woman in her 40s (Michelle Pfeiffer) and the younger man she falls in love with (the perennially likeable Paul Rudd). It is also a movie about youth-obsessed Hollywood, celebrity culture, and the inevitability of aging. Rosie is the mother of a teenage daughter (Atonement's Saoirse Ronan) and struggles to raise her daughter apart from the warped narcissistic values of Hollywood, while being in a position of perpetuating those same values (Pfeiffer plays the creator and producer of a teen TV show). While the movie is otherwise a jumbled mess of themes and plot points, Heckerling succeeds in keeping it cohesive. With this A-list cast, Heckerling's strong pedigree, and a genuinely enjoyable script, this is a film that didn't deserve a straight-to-video-release. --Kira Canny
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Rating:  - A Mixed Bag
If not exactly a one-hit wonder, Amy Heckerling is certainly a mystery. After directing the highly successful "Fast Times at Ridgement High (1982) and writing/directing an excellent modern adaptation of Jane Austins's "Emma"- insert "Clueless" (1995) here - it appeared that she had a unique connection with both teenage viewers and those nostalgic about their teenage years.
Then she spectacularly crashed and burned with the appropriately named "Loser" (2000). That career breaker would be in the running for a "worst film of all time" designation, were it not for its modest scale. Nonetheless it exposed huge deficiencies in Heckerling's writing talents, acting for the camera directing skills, and basic judgment.
Six years and no films later she was finally able to cobble together another modest scale film "I Could Never Be Your Woman", which is much closer to "Loser" in concept and execution than to her successful films.
Heckerling is at heart an expressionistic movie-maker; a fine quality except that mainstream audiences, used to a steady diet of movie realism, sometimes just don't get it. Her two main successes were situations where the surreal stuff was an ironic undercurrent masked by a realistic facade. With "Loser" her elements went out of balance and she repeats this same mistake in the main storyline here; a blend of the Hollywood insider story Altman did so well in "The Player" and the standard Lifetime Channel exploration of female angst, aging, and ... Read More
Rating: - Another Romantic Comedy ...Ho-Hum ...
Romantic comedies abound, so I was hesitant to retry the genre with yet another film starring Michelle Pfeiffer. She seems to love the genre; not necessarily all comedy but definitely the romantic part. Ever since One Fine Day (1996) where she starred alongside the then and future heart-throb George Clooney (Michael Clayton), she's been consistently on the romance movie radar screen (that's been 12 years as of this review).
But Pfeiffer does an okay job once again as an aging screenwriter named Rosie, trying to keep her job, her sanity, and her teen daughter all from imploding. Circling around these troublesome times is Rosie's growing awareness of her age (mid-40s) and her lack of any new romantic prospects. Her "battle scenes" with her daughter's Ken and Barbie dolls are pretty darn funny, too, which also aided in the darker side of the comedic need to understand one's own age. Her daughter Izzie (Saoirse Ronan, Atonement) has just got her period and is full into what she believes to be womanhood. Rosie's daughter's blossoming adulthood triggers Rosie's own sense of love and she finds it in the unlikely arms of a much, much younger man/actor named Adam (Paul Rudd, Knocked Up).
Difficulties abound thanks to Rosie's passive-aggressive secretary Jeannie (Sarah Alexander) who does everything to thwart Rosie's possibilities at a love life; and thanks to Rosie's ex-husband Nathan (Jon Lovitz) who's always having some body part of his remade via plastic surgery. There's another ... Read More
Rating:  - If only it were possible to give zero stars
What a dreadful piece of dross. Poorly written/directed/lit/acted and everything else. The excruciating post-Sex and the City smart-aleckery was just plain not funny.
And the usually watchable Rudd was the most irritating suitor since that Scottish bloke in Sliding Doors.
How does stuff like this get green-lit? What were they thinking?
Rom-com Hell!
Rating:  - Loved it, but want the Soundtrack
This was a great movie and if you are girly you will love it too! The only thing is that there isn't a soundtrack released and well the daughter Izzy makes fun of several singers and makes her own version of their songs and it is hilarious!! It will make you want to have it on your ipod!
Rating: - Hamming it up for the cameras
I Could Never Be Your Woman has got to be one of the most corny films to date from Writer and Director Amy Heckerling (Fast Times At Ridgemont High and Clueless fame). It is an unusual film that pairs seasoned actress, Michelle Pfeiffer (Rosie) with astoundingly quirky actor, Paul Rudd (Adam). Thus far, Rudd's almost improvised performance is genuine and the highlight of the film.
The film focuses on Rosie, a forty-something divorced single mom and Hollywood TV producer who happens to fall head over heels for Adam, a late twenty-something up and coming comic-actor, during the production of a teen oriented sitcom, "You Go Girl," which is somewhat a play on the 1990s show "Saved By The Bell." While Rosie is going through the motions of having to deal with the generation gap between she and Adam, she also has to deal with her daughter, Izzie (Saoirse Ronan) who is experiencing her growing pains of maturity from a little girl to a young woman. Also in the film is Jon Lovitz (Nathan) who plays the ex-husband who passes his time going through one cosmetic surgery after another and Tracey Ullman who plays the doting Mother Nature character who resembles the 1970s Chiffon margarine commercial Mother Nature.
And with most romantic comedies, all fairs well in the end. There is plenty of comic relief from Rudd, which keeps the film rolling along with a barrel full of laughs; undoubtedly he is hilarious in the dance scene, and it appears that the rest of the cast looked like they ... Read More
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