"The Women": Preview, Images and Trailer

September 6, 2008 by Jane Boursaw

Talk about your ultimate chick-flick. The Women features a whole buncha Hollywood women, and I can’t wait to see this remake of the 1939 George Cukor classic. That and the fact that the trailer features my new favorite song, “Mercy” by Duffy.

It 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 clothing company.

Her best friend, Sylvie Fowler (Annette Bening), leads another enviable life – a career as an editor of a prominent fashion magazine, a huge closet full of designer clothes, and a social life that’s on the cutting edge of New York society.

More after the jump, including pics and trailer…

But when Mary’s husband begins an affair with Crystal Allen (Eva Mendes), a sultry ’spritzer girl’ lurking behind the Saks Fifth Avenue perfume counter, all hell breaks loose.

Mary and Sylvie’s relationship is tested to the breaking point while their tight-knit circle of friends, including mega-mommy Edie Cohen (Debra Messing) and author Alex Fisher (Jada Pinkett-Smith), all start to question their own friendships and romantic relationships as well.

Directed by Diane English, this movie is rated PG-13 for sex-related material, language, some drug use and brief smoking. Opens in theaters Sept. 12, 2008.