“In the land of women” is one of those slow chick flicks that either touches you, or makes you bored. Although this film was interesting to me in places, overall, it just wasn’t worth my time. Carter (Adam Brody) is supposed to be a porn writer, which I find absolutely ridiculous. He’s sensitive, romantic and a good listener- if he is all these things- why can’t he be a romance novelist, why does he have to write about something so physically dimensional like porn? His “Randy” the teddy bear story is based off of his own circumstances, but it doesn’t seem like it would fall in the porn category anytime soon. Anyways, Carter lives with his demented and might I say funny grandmother, who is on the verge of death. The conversations between him and his grandmother are the best part of the film. They are funny and charming. This relationship is probably the only real one in the movie- not the ones with Kirsten Stewart and Meg Ryan. Those are just too complicated and SAD to bear.
If I were you, I would skip this movie altogether since it doesn’t seem to go in any real direction. Carter, who’s practically the most important character in the film, does not seem to change or feel better in anyway (about his breakup- the context for the story)- and that is what the audience would want to see the most.
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