Where: Canal Walk
When: 10 December 2008
Cost: Food & Movie plus/minus R80 - R90
Patrons Present: Nadine, Fiona, Carol, Vannessa and Lucy
Organised By: Carol
Firstly the Other Women (also 5 of us) met at Osumo’s for some healthy meal choices (my Salmon & Cottage Cheese Salad was scrumptious) and then we went to see the film, The Women.
Cast: Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Nadine, Fiona, Carol, Vannessa & Lucy
Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith, Carrie Fisher,
Cloris Leachman, Debi Mazar, Bette Midler, Candice BergenDirector: Diane English
This film tells the story of Mary Haines (Meg Ryan), a clothing designer who seems to have it all – a beautiful country home, a rich financier husband, an adorable 11-year-old daughter and a part-time career creating designs for her father's venerable clothing company. Her best friend, Sylvie Fowler (Annette Bening), leads another enviable life – a happily single editor of a prominent fashion magazine, a possessor of a huge closet of designer clothes and a revered arbiter of taste and style poised on Manhattan’s cutting edge. But when Mary's husband enters into an affair with Crystal Allen (Eva Mendes), a sultry "spritzer girl" lurking behind the Saks 5th Ave perfume counter, she is devastated and is forced to re-evaluate her life. Mary and Sylvie's relationship is tested to breaking point while their tight-knit circle of friends, including mega-mommy Edie Cohen (Debra Messing) and author/lesbian Alex Fisher (Jada Pinkett-Smith), all start to question their own friendships and romantic relationships.
This film is ALL about the women and is man-free (finally a cinematic moment that centers on women and women only.) Oops sorry – there was a cameo role by a very, very small man at the end of the movie.
The performances of the all star cast were wonderful in this bitchy, funny and stylish comedy. Wooohooo to Jada Pinkett Smith who wins my tiny little Chocolate Lindt Reindeer (which I am very fond of) for her performance.
Debra Messing gets the Lindt Reindeer’s bell for being so glorious and so honest because that’s all we want after all – a little well-timed honesty, a little kindness and a lot of love.
I heard women giggle, chuckle, sigh heart wrenchingly and even snort in unison. I left the cinema with a huge grin on my face. Well worth the price of a ticket (a whopping R15 on Wednesdays).
Note: The Other Women have nominated Janine to be our baby-machine, Edie Cohen, in our tight-knit circle of friends….. (JB you have to see the movie to understand).
Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith, Carrie Fisher,
Cloris Leachman, Debi Mazar, Bette Midler, Candice BergenDirector: Diane English
This film tells the story of Mary Haines (Meg Ryan), a clothing designer who seems to have it all – a beautiful country home, a rich financier husband, an adorable 11-year-old daughter and a part-time career creating designs for her father's venerable clothing company. Her best friend, Sylvie Fowler (Annette Bening), leads another enviable life – a happily single editor of a prominent fashion magazine, a possessor of a huge closet of designer clothes and a revered arbiter of taste and style poised on Manhattan’s cutting edge. But when Mary's husband enters into an affair with Crystal Allen (Eva Mendes), a sultry "spritzer girl" lurking behind the Saks 5th Ave perfume counter, she is devastated and is forced to re-evaluate her life. Mary and Sylvie's relationship is tested to breaking point while their tight-knit circle of friends, including mega-mommy Edie Cohen (Debra Messing) and author/lesbian Alex Fisher (Jada Pinkett-Smith), all start to question their own friendships and romantic relationships.
This film is ALL about the women and is man-free (finally a cinematic moment that centers on women and women only.) Oops sorry – there was a cameo role by a very, very small man at the end of the movie.
The performances of the all star cast were wonderful in this bitchy, funny and stylish comedy. Wooohooo to Jada Pinkett Smith who wins my tiny little Chocolate Lindt Reindeer (which I am very fond of) for her performance.
Debra Messing gets the Lindt Reindeer’s bell for being so glorious and so honest because that’s all we want after all – a little well-timed honesty, a little kindness and a lot of love.
I heard women giggle, chuckle, sigh heart wrenchingly and even snort in unison. I left the cinema with a huge grin on my face. Well worth the price of a ticket (a whopping R15 on Wednesdays).
Note: The Other Women have nominated Janine to be our baby-machine, Edie Cohen, in our tight-knit circle of friends….. (JB you have to see the movie to understand).
