A Good Woman
by Mike Barker
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Actor: Helen Hunt, Milena Vukotic, Scarlett Johansson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom WilkinsonDirector: Mike Barker
Brand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
Producer: Alan Greenspan
Producer: Antonio Guadalupi
Producer: David Nichols
Producer: Denise O'Dell
Producer: Duncan Hopper
Writer: Howard Himelstein
Writer: Oscar Wilde
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Italian (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-13
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Lions Gate
Movie Reviews of A Good Woman
Movie Review: Gorgeous outfits, breathtaking scenery, great performances
Summary: 5 Stars
Helen Hunt plays the role of Mrs. Erlynne, who lives off of other women's husbands. The movie opens in New York City during the 30's and we see this gorgeous and self assured femme fatale no longer welcomed by society because of the danger she represents. The credit she once had, provided by the rich and famous is no longer available but she wants to move to new territory and is forced to sell her jewelry to have enough money to buy passage to travel to the Amalfi Coast, the region of Italy's coastline located south of Naples.
The beautiful settings of Amalfi, Positano and Ravello make this movie a cinematographic wonder. The shots of this world renowned stretch of mountainous coastline are breathtaking and we could not help but want to visit the picturesque villages, the beautiful villas that cling to the cliffs as if designed to become part of a portrait.
We get to walk with the actors through the streets of these fishing villages and we join them as they purchase their lunch from the fresh catch of the day. Mrs. Eflynne has apparently set her sight on a newly married Robert Windermere, played by Mark Umbers.
Meg Windermere, played by Scarlett Johansson is portrayed as na?ve, completely in love with her husband and incapable of doing anything to jeopardize her marriage. But when her husband starts to visit Mrs. Eflynne at her villa the local gossips become convinced that they are involved in a torrid affair and they become the talk of the town.
John Standing delivers an outstanding performance as Dumby, the high society wealthy Lord Darlington, twice-divorced and reluctant to ever marry again, and yet, he is so smitten by Mrs. Eflynne that he proposes matrimony to the "American" woman that every woman despises and every man admires.
This is one of those few movies that took us by surprise as the plot twists and turns, and rather than revealing it to you, we simply recommend seeing it. If you have ever traveled through Italy, this movie will remind you of the great natural beauty of Amalfi, Ravello, Sorrento and Rome. Gorgeous attire, elegant settings, delightful performances and delicious give and take by the men... Don't miss it!
Summary of A Good Woman
Set in the 1930s on the beautiful shores of the Italian Riviera A Good Woman follows the seductive Mrs. Erlynne (Hunt) scorned by many as a woman of ill repute leaves New York for the Amalfi coast where she hopes to find a new patron among the vacationing aristocrats. The mean-spirited gossip stirred up by Mrs. Erlynne s arrival isn t enough to dissuade the jovial kind-hearted Lord Augustus (Wilkinson) from falling in love with her.But Mrs. Erlynne has already set her sights on the married Robert Windermere (Mark Umbers) a wealthy young American who falls quickly under her spell. Windermere s faithful wife Meg (Johansson) is herself distracted by the flirtatious overtures of Lord Darlington (Stephen Campbell Moore) a notorious playboy. But when she learns of her husband s blossoming affair Meg resorts to drastic measures with unexpected consequences for everyone involved.System Requirements:Running Time: 93 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA Rating:?PG UPC:?031398185789 Manufacturer No:?18578Scarlett Johannson and Helen Hunt give Oscar Wilde's popular play Lady Windermere's Fan a lavish jazz-age treatment in A Good Woman. An adventuress (Hunt, As Good as It Gets) flees scandal in New York and lands in Italy, where she crosses paths with a young businessman (David Hasselhoff look-alike Mark Umbers) and his very upright young wife (Johansson, Lost in Translation). Before long, tongues are wagging about the adventuress and the businessman, possibly driving the wife to a rash act. A Good Woman retains Wilde's plot--though its 19th century moral concerns don't have the same punch in 1930s Italy--and tosses aside most of his impeccable dialogue, sprinkling his clever epigrams here and there in the otherwise undistinguished dialogue. Johansson, perhaps the most physically sensual actress since Brigitte Bardot, is miscast as the moral prig; Hunt, looking pinched and austere, is miscast as the jaded courtesan. The movie's great saving grace is Tom Wilkinson as a rich man who hopes Hunt will warm his older years. Wilkinson brings a worldly benevolence to every moment he's on screen, making the lines that weren't written by Wilde sound as crisp and wise as if they were. --Bret Fetzer
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