The Women (2008) on Netflix
Mary Haines has a Connecticut home, a financier husband and a design career. Gossip about her husband and Crystal Allen, a perfume girl at Saks, reaches her at the salon.
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Plot summary
Mary Haines designs clothing, lives in Connecticut with her financier husband Stephen and their eleven-year-old daughter Molly, and counts New York magazine editor Sylvie Fowler as her best friend since college. The circle also includes pregnant Edie Cohen and writer Alex Fisher. At the beauty salon, manicurist Tanya says Stephen is involved with Crystal Allen, a perfume salesgirl at Saks Fifth Avenue. Sylvie hears the gossip first and tells Edie, unsure whether to pass it to Mary, who gets the same news during her own manicure. Her mother Catherine advises silence. Mary confronts Crystal in a lingerie store, then Stephen.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Women (2008)
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- After English decided to direct the film herself in 2001, Sandra Bullock, Ashley Judd, Uma Thurman, Whitney Houston and Queen Latifah all expressed interest in starring over the following years, but none ever signed on officially.
- Turned down by every major studio, Diane English got the film made independently through Mick Jagger's company Jagged Films for Picturehouse, only for Warner Bros., which had absorbed Picturehouse, to shelve it until Sex and the City's box-office success convinced them an all-female film could sell.
- As in the 1939 original, director Diane English made sure no men ever appear on screen in The Women, even in long shots and crowd scenes, leaving Edie's newborn baby boy as the only male character, born in the final scene.
- Adapting the story for a modern audience, English changed the character Lucy, who ran the divorce ranch in Reno in the original play and film, into Mary's pet dog in this version.
