TeenzTen An action-packed slog

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

a-shane-bishop Pros: the soundtrack is greatCons: It feels like the usual writer's impulse to tell the usual "LA coming of age" where the writer is the main character. But it feels like a first draft, then they ripped out pages and the editor was given the weekend to put it all together, like it was an Immunity challenge puzzle on Survivor.I don't like to harshly dump but - deep down there was an interesting story, marred and saddled by poor execution. Character development, transitions, timelines...all proceeded at a pace regardless of the actual dialogue or actions,Being the son of Lawrence Kasdan looks to have been a problem in directing this film. Someone should have been more honest about the quality and readiness of this project. Characters aren't interesting and don't develop just because of the footage of frames on screen,The speed bumps are too numerous to mention but...He pines over his ex and then when she calls he hangs up and doesn't call back for days? And for no real reason?

schulmange Traditional Hollywood story. Boy meets girl. Although that's pretty much all that happens. He doesn't get the girl so he can't lose her or get her back.Mainly he acts as a sounding board to the various women in the movie.The ostensible story is that boy goes to the Detroit suburbs (actually Vancouver) to take care of his ailing grandmother, played by Olympia Dukakis. There are several stretches of the movie where Grandma simply disappears. No, she doesn't wander off. She is just not in the story. The writer can't handle that sort of conflict by having the A and B story lines cross.The girl's Father is played by Clark Gregg, whose screen time is less than a minute. He delivers one little speech of maybe two lines and then he is simply not around. He is allegedly having an affair, but not much is made of that. Whether his affair is the cause of the Mother and Daughter's unhappiness and need to talk to Adam Brody, or whether he is having an affair because he is bored with them as much as I was, was not explored.Written and directed by Jon Kasdan, who played a kid in "The Big Chill."

Raul Faust Wow, what a nice little flick! Carter Webb is an unique character that oscillates between being the good boy and the womanizer; either way, he's likable in both situations, and male spectator will surely feel identified with him, one time or another. He deals with different kind of females. An hypochondriac grandmother, an immature teenager and a problematic woman. The grandma is indeed funny, and I loudly laughed in the "I hadn't eaten anything in three weeks" scene; it exposed with sincerity how old people act when they feel lonely and helpless. Even if the portrayal of such character can have a serious connotation, I couldn't help laughing at her manners. The directing and editing are sometimes weird, and I noticed an overuse of editing during conversations, but that doesn't spoil the (many) qualities of the film. The story, for example, is EXTREMELY original, and so are the conversations and the problems that characters deal with. Adam Brody has an amazing performance, and I'm really surprised that I haven't ever seen him before. In some scenes he remembered me of Axl from "The Middle". "In the Land of Women" is, without a doubt, a different movie from anything you've seen, and proves that a low-budget project can be as satisfying (or more) as a Hollywood blockbuster. Give it a try!

John McGhie It's the writing that makes this movie.The Executive Producer wrote it, and directed it; so I can understand how that happened. The person with the ultimate authority to wreck this script was the man who wrote it: so it didn't get mangled.Typically, a Hollywood movie has only one idea in it. This one has seven (well, I counted seven, maybe I missed some). It almost seems as if the central premise is "Everything is the opposite of what it seems". Almost.One needs to pay attention to get the juice out of this movie. I kept finding I needed to go back and replay scenes because my mind wandered (it does that a lot, but in most movies, that doesn't matter because I know the ending shortly after the opening titles fade).This movie has seven endings, and none of them occur at the end of the film.Don't sit there reading this, go see for yourself what I am talking about. I don't think you will be sorry. Unless you have a learning disability (it's a line from the film: watch for it...) Enjoy!