We didn’t particularly care for Sebastian Gutierrez’s “Women In Trouble,” so why are we posting images from the movie, particularly one with many half-dressed, rather attractive actresses? Hit-bait (cause you know we get trillions of repeat users)? Maybe more to get a sorta-review out of the way? Basically.
Because we’re not sure we have a full-blown review in us. Done on the cheap, “Women In Trouble,” is essentially a film made by friends (Gutierrez is Carla Gugino’s boyfriend) with lots of favors put out to famous actors like Josh Brolin, Marley Shelton, Connie Britton, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Simon Baker and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (though he did not appear in the final version we saw) to put in an appearance for a day or two of filming for next to nothing (ok, nothing).
And while we endorse that DIY mentality and just banging it out — pardon the expression, there’s a lot of porn star characters in the movie — it’s essentially a pretty campy and silly sitcom-styled dramedy about several women facing difficulties that are all interconnected. All it needs for some scenes is a laugh track, really.
Though we will say that the Marley Shelton, Josh Brolin airplane sequence is kind of amusing (though Brolin can’t do a English accent for shit) and that the ending is sincere and surprisingly heartfelt (especially compared to what lead up to it). Yet, at the same time, it carries some Lifetime Movie, Oxygen-channel tones.
Adrianne Palicki, the featured woman on this poster, is either a real-life airhead or just plays the role with complete conviction, so maybe there’s something to be said for that. Images and posters for the movie generally look great, really stylish, colorful, etc., but we can’t really endorse the picture at all (a full-blown review would probably be much more scathing, so let’s just leave it as it is for now). Oh and Robyn Hitchcock did the score, but uhh, that can’t really save it.