The Women

The Women (2008) is an American comedy-drama written and directed by Diane English — watch it online on iFILM. Meg Ryan and Annette Bening lead an all-female cast in this update of the 1939 Hollywood classic. The original's defining rule stays intact: not a single male character appears on screen, not even in the background.

Mary Haines has a Connecticut home, a twelve-year-old daughter, and a husband on Wall Street. She assumes everything is fine until her sharp-tongued magazine editor friend Sylvia Fowler picks up gossip about a shopgirl who's been seeing Mary's husband. From there the film spins through a wide circle — Debra Messing, Eva Mendes, Jada Pinkett Smith, Candice Bergen, Bette Midler and Carrie Fisher among them — tracking how female friendships fracture and reform when the subject is a marriage in trouble. Stream The Women (2008) online on iFILM.