Woman Wanted
by Alan Smithee
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DVD Cover Information
Director: Alan SmitheePrimary Contributor: Holly Hunter
Primary Contributor: Kiefer Sutherland
Primary Contributor: Michael Moriarty
Primary Contributor: Carrie Preston
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Color, Full Screen
Running Time: 97 unknown-units
Published: 2000
Movie Reviews of Woman Wanted
Movie Review: You Just Can't Find Good Help Anymore
Summary: 5 Stars
I have missed Michael Moriority on film. He has been absent due to personal problems, but ever since his performance in "Bang the Drum Slowly," I have been hooked. In Woman Wanted, we again see the ability of this man to get into the depth and soul of his character. In this movie a young woman answers an ad to work in the home of an "over fifty" man who is a bit stodgy, and who also has a grown son who is a "train wreck" living in the home. Unable to "find himself" the son has returned to the nest. Kiefer Southerland plays the emotionally distraught son and he also directs the film. The son is very bitter about the death of his mother whom the father had committed to an institution where she died barely a month later. The father has had a weekend lover on the side for years, due to his lack of emotional nourishment from the mother. The mother's break from reality was realized when she appeared in her husband's college classroom (where he was giving a lecture) barefooted, hair in curlers and it a bathrobe. With brightly painted toenails she launches a diatribe filled with profanaties. She had to be physically removed by an ambulance crew. Holly Hunter gives an outstanding performance as the live-in who has been hired to "bring order" to the household, and bring order, she does. She is a fantastic cook, housekeeper and has a knack at managing the dramas in the household caused by the mental conflict between father and son. They both fall in love with her, which causes more jealousy and conflict. Michael Moriority, Holly Hunter and Keifer Southerland. Who thought we would ever see THESE THREE in a movie together? They seem so unlikely together. But if you see the movie you will realize that they fit and fit beautifully. I have done this kind of work myself as a home health provider and you learn quickly that while you may be skilled at nursing and homemaking, your main job is psychiatrist/psychologist and there are many family dramas that you must manage or all the caregiving in the world will not make a difference. The acting is superb all round, but I take my hat off to Michael Morioity who IS his character, a character I have seen many times in real life.
Summary of Woman Wanted
Story of a woman (Hunter) who comes to work as a housekeeper for a widower (Moriarty) and his grown son (Sutherland) and of their attachment to her to the point that she is asked by the father to marry... to the dismay of the son who also loves her. But the animosity of the two men toward each other is finally resolved when she becomes intentionally pregnant, possibly by one or the other as she goes to bed with both men within a matter of days, causing neither to win her for himself, but both to become bound together because of the child.Similar DVD Movies
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