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In the Land of Women

This smarmy, self-involved drama is about a writer (Adam Brody) who cranks out soft-core porn scripts in Los Angeles and yearns not to author the Great American Novel but instead a memoir of his high-school years. I have a feeling the world has more use for the soft-core porn. Visiting his ancient, acid-tongued grandmother (a humiliated Olympia Dukakis) in suburban Michigan, he becomes embroiled – romantically and otherwise – in the lives of a next-door mom (Meg Ryan) and her teen daughter (Kristen Stewart). Ryan does some great work, but writer-director and Hollywood son Jonathan Kasdan is almost too interested in his on-screen surrogate to notice.

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