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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Women is a
2008 American comedy film written, produced and directed by Diane
English. The screenplay is an updated version of the George
Cukor-directed 1939 film of the same name based on a 1936 play by Clare
Boothe Luce. In the original film, most of the characters were Manhattan
socialites whose primary interest was idle gossip. In the 2008 version,
several work in the fields of fashion design and publishing, and the
character of Alex Fisher is openly a lesbian. Clothing designer Mary
Haines lives in a beautiful suburban Connecticut home with her wealthy
financier husband Steven and their 11-year-old daughter Molly. Her best
friend since college, Sylvie Fowler, is the editor of a prominent
fashion magazine that dictates the latest in taste and style for New
York City fashionistas. When Sylvie learns Steven is involved with
Crystal Allen, a perfume salesgirl in Saks Fifth Avenue, from chatty
manicurist Tanya, she confides in the ever-pregnant Edie Cohen but
hesitates to tell Mary, who discovers the news herself from the same
woman after getting a manicure herself.
