2007 · romance · comedy · drama
In the Land of Women
Directed by Jon Kasdan1h 37m2007
After a bad breakup with his girlfriend leaves him heartbroken, Carter Webb moves to Michigan to take care of his ailing grandmother. Once there, he gets mixed up in the lives of the mother and daughters who live across the street.
Our read: In the Land of Women (2007) reads as a warm, measured, grounded romance · comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, measured, gentle romance / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- measured
- gentle
- intimate
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