Movie-In the Land of Women

I did not want to like this movie. I will repeat, I did not want to like this movie. I wanted to write that it was sentimental claptrap, cliched and predictable.

I can't do that. In the Land of Women (2006) did not settle for easy answers or plot contrivances. It did not even settle for easy dialogue. Instead, it settled for characters struggling to express themselves, and struggling for understanding. It took the hard way out instead of the easy.

Starring Meg Ryan, Adam Brody and Olympia Dukakis, this unsentimental look at our modern suburban disconnect was not cliche ridden, but offered the difficult decisions that we all have to deal with. Its messy, this thing we call life. It is not always easy, in fact, much of the time it seems to be a struggle.

The one complaint I have is that the neighborhood looked too perfect, like out of a fairy tale. Maybe that was to contrast what was really going on, but it was not believable.