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| Directed by | Sebastian Gutierrez |
| Produced by | Sebastian Gutierrez |
| Written by | Sebastian Gutierrez |
| Starring | Carla Gugino Connie Britton Emanuelle Chriqui Marley Shelton Elizabeth Berkely Cameron Richardson Adrianne Palicki Joseph Gordon-Levitt |
| Music by | Robyn Hitchcock |
| Cinematography | Cale Finot |
| Editing by | Lisa Bromwell Michelle Tesoro |
| Distributed by | Screen Media Films, Myriad Pictures (International) |
| Release date(s) | November 13, 2009 |
| Running time | 92 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Women in Trouble is a 2009 American comedy film, written and directed by Sebastian Gutierrez, and starring a cast consisting of Carla Gugino, Adrianne Palicki, Marley Shelton, Connie Britton and Emmanuelle Chriqui.
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The film focuses on six women in Los Angeles as their lives become intertwined in the course of 24 hours.
Porn star Elektra Luxx (Carla Gugino) discovers she is pregnant. Leaving her doctor's office, she gets stuck in an elevator with Doris (Connie Britton), sister to Addy (Caitlin Keats). Addy has recently started taking her daughter, Charlotte, to see her therapist, Maxine (Sarah Clarke) (While secretly using the visit to sleep with the therapist's husband, upon choosing to follow her therapist's advice to "live with more risk."). Upon finding out about her husband's secret during a therapy session with Charlotte, Maxine rushes out and gets into her car. While backing out, she hits Holly Rocket (Adrianne Palicki), adult film star. Holly and Bambi (Emmanuelle Chriqui) were running to safety after a session with one of Bambi's clients is interrupted. Meanwhile, flight attendant Cora (Marley Shelton) finds herself the object of rock star Nick Chapel's (Josh Brolin) affection on a flight to his band's upcoming show.
The film was directed by Sebastian Gutierrez. Production began and ended in Los Angeles. The film premiered at the 2009 South by Southwest Film Festival.[1] The film opened in the United States on November 13, 2009. A sequel, Elektra Luxx, was released on March 11, 2011. Gutierrez returns as the writer-director, and the cast includes Carla Gugino, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Timothy Olyphant, and Justin Kirk. Gutierrez is planning on making a third installment, tentatively titled Women in Ecstasy[2] which was initially planned to be released in 2010.
Women in Trouble received generally negative to mixed reviews from critics. The film currently has an approval rating of 29% at Rotten Tomatoes, based on 21 reviews from critics.[3] At Metacritic reported 43% of the positive reviews based on 9 reviews.[4] John DeFore writing for The Hollywood Reporter "Gutierrez's script can not supply female characters as believable as Almodovar's, but in the director's chair he gives his cast room to compensate with funny, self-aware performances". Melissa Anderson writing for Village Voice said "blue material mixes awkwardly with sob stories". Manohla Dargis of The New York Times called the film "The amateurish production values might be pardoned if the clichés - the hard-core porn star with the soft heart, the therapist who needs to heal herself - inside the poorly lighted, badly shot images were not so absurd and often insulting".
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