What Women Want (2000)
Country: US
Technical: col 127m
Director: Nancy Meyers
Cast: Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt, Alan Alda, Marisa Tomei
Synopsis:
A chauvinistic, womanizing advertising exec goes on the defensive when a woman is appointed over him, but when a freak accident at home endows him with the unlikely gift of reading the unspoken thoughts of the fair sex, he uses it to his professional advantage.
Review:
Predictable characterizations and the most unlikely high-concept setup are inauspicious beginnings for this female-helmed romantic comedy, but the writers take the idea into all sorts of directions before discarding it, and the film, like Tootsie before it, does at least explore gender relations in an illuminating and entertaining way.
Country: US
Technical: col 127m
Director: Nancy Meyers
Cast: Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt, Alan Alda, Marisa Tomei
Synopsis:
A chauvinistic, womanizing advertising exec goes on the defensive when a woman is appointed over him, but when a freak accident at home endows him with the unlikely gift of reading the unspoken thoughts of the fair sex, he uses it to his professional advantage.
Review:
Predictable characterizations and the most unlikely high-concept setup are inauspicious beginnings for this female-helmed romantic comedy, but the writers take the idea into all sorts of directions before discarding it, and the film, like Tootsie before it, does at least explore gender relations in an illuminating and entertaining way.
Country: US
Technical: col 127m
Director: Nancy Meyers
Cast: Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt, Alan Alda, Marisa Tomei
Synopsis:
A chauvinistic, womanizing advertising exec goes on the defensive when a woman is appointed over him, but when a freak accident at home endows him with the unlikely gift of reading the unspoken thoughts of the fair sex, he uses it to his professional advantage.
Review:
Predictable characterizations and the most unlikely high-concept setup are inauspicious beginnings for this female-helmed romantic comedy, but the writers take the idea into all sorts of directions before discarding it, and the film, like Tootsie before it, does at least explore gender relations in an illuminating and entertaining way.