I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007) on Netflix
PG-1320071h 37mComedyDramaRomance
Rosie, a divorced mother of a teenager, writes for a sitcom with slipping ratings. She casts a young actor named Adam, then finds herself drawn to him despite the age gap.
- Netflix3.2/5
- IMDb5.9/1021,088 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes67%
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Plot summary
The sitcom You Go Girl is losing viewers, and Rosie, its writer and producer, is a divorced mother unsure about her age and her looks. Her boss, Marty, tells the writers to stay away from controversial material, so Rosie goes looking for a new character to refresh the show. At the auditions she meets Adam, a bright young man, and casts him as a nerdy love interest for the show's self-centered lead, Brianna. Rosie is close to her thirteen-year-old daughter, Izzie, who asks her advice about a classmate named Dylan. Rosie falls for Adam; when he takes her dancing she claims to be thirty-seven and he says he is thirty-two. Adam tells her the age difference does not matter to him, but Rosie's unease about her age keeps surfacing.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007)
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- Philippe Martinez signed a deal with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to distribute the film theatrically, but MGM backed out upon learning about Pfeiffer's share of the film's revenue. With no theatrical distributor, the film went direct-to-DVD in North America.
- To cut production costs, producer Philippe Martinez asked Michelle Pfeiffer to take a reduced salary of $1 million plus 15% of the gross.
- Amy Heckerling sent her script to Paramount Pictures, which was unnerved by the idea of backing a film with an older female protagonist. Independent producer Philippe Martinez of Bauer Martinez Entertainment then picked it up with a $25 million budget.
- Amy Heckerling drew the film's story from her own life as a single mother raising a young daughter while she was making the Clueless television series.
- The film takes its title from a line in the 1997 song "Your Woman" by the British artist White Town.
