The Other Woman
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After discovering her boyfriend is married, Carly soon meets the wife he's been cheating on. And when yet another affair is discovered, all three women team up to plot mutual revenge on the three-timing SOB.
What critics thought
DivisiveCritics largely dismissed the film as a squandered opportunity — a revenge comedy with a likable cast that trades any genuine wit or empowerment for gross-out gags and sloppy slapstick. A handful of reviewers found enough warmth and sisterhood to make it work as unpretentious girlfriend-movie fun, but the majority felt director Nick Cassavetes had no command of the comedy, and that the script's laziness dragged its talented leads down with it.
“so dumb, lazy, clumsily assembled and unoriginal, it could crush any actor forced to execute its leaden slapstick gags and mouth its crude, humorless dialogue”
Stephen Holden·The New York Times
“All of a sudden, a spotted Great Dane squats in the middle of a Manhattan apartment and out plop several gleaming, glistening CGI turds. It's one of those cases where a Hollywood movie inadvertently summarizes itself in a single shot.”
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky·The A.V. Club
“While "The Other Woman" raises some thoughtful questions about independence, identity and the importance of sisterhood, ultimately it would rather poop on them and then throw them through a window in hopes of the getting the big laugh.”
Christy Lemire·RogerEbert.com
“It's an escapist women's empowerment comedy like many others, but elevated by the simple virtue of being, for most of its length, very, very funny.”
Colin Covert·Star Tribune
“Beneath the wobbly pratfalls and the scatological setpieces, there's no denying the film's mean-spirited kick, or its more-than-passing interest in what makes its women tick.”
Justin Chang·Variety
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Cast & Crew
Nick CassavetesDirector
Cameron DiazCarly Whitten
Leslie MannKate King
Kate UptonAmber
Nikolaj Coster-WaldauMark King
Don JohnsonFrank
Nicki MinajLydia
Taylor KinneyPhil
David ThorntonNick
Victor CruzFernando
Kenneth MaharajBusboy
Alyshia OchseCece
Madison McKinleyWaitress
Aaron ZigmanComposer
Melissa K. StackWriter
Robert FraisseCinematographyThe Other Woman
After discovering her boyfriend is married, Carly soon meets the wife he's been cheating on. And when yet another affair is discovered, all three women team up to plot mutual revenge on the three-timing SOB.
What critics thought
DivisiveCritics largely dismissed the film as a squandered opportunity — a revenge comedy with a likable cast that trades any genuine wit or empowerment for gross-out gags and sloppy slapstick. A handful of reviewers found enough warmth and sisterhood to make it work as unpretentious girlfriend-movie fun, but the majority felt director Nick Cassavetes had no command of the comedy, and that the script's laziness dragged its talented leads down with it.
“so dumb, lazy, clumsily assembled and unoriginal, it could crush any actor forced to execute its leaden slapstick gags and mouth its crude, humorless dialogue”
Stephen Holden·The New York Times
“All of a sudden, a spotted Great Dane squats in the middle of a Manhattan apartment and out plop several gleaming, glistening CGI turds. It's one of those cases where a Hollywood movie inadvertently summarizes itself in a single shot.”
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky·The A.V. Club
“While "The Other Woman" raises some thoughtful questions about independence, identity and the importance of sisterhood, ultimately it would rather poop on them and then throw them through a window in hopes of the getting the big laugh.”
Christy Lemire·RogerEbert.com
“It's an escapist women's empowerment comedy like many others, but elevated by the simple virtue of being, for most of its length, very, very funny.”
Colin Covert·Star Tribune
“Beneath the wobbly pratfalls and the scatological setpieces, there's no denying the film's mean-spirited kick, or its more-than-passing interest in what makes its women tick.”
Justin Chang·Variety
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Cast & Crew
Nick CassavetesDirectorCameron DiazCarly WhittenLeslie MannKate KingKate UptonAmberNikolaj Coster-WaldauMark KingDon JohnsonFrankNicki MinajLydiaTaylor KinneyPhilDavid ThorntonNickVictor CruzFernandoKenneth MaharajBusboyAlyshia OchseCeceMadison McKinleyWaitressAaron ZigmanComposerMelissa K. StackWriterRobert FraisseCinematographyRent & Buy