I Could Never Be Your Woman

Plot synopsis:
Rosie (Michelle Pfeiffer), is a 40-year-old divorced mother who works as a scriptwriter and producer for a TV show You Go Girl. Rosie is insecure about her age, and uses cosmetics to maintain her appearance. She has a very close relationship with her thirteen-year-old daughter, Izzie (Saoirse Ronan), which becomes even closer when she learns that she has fallen for a boy in her class named Dylan (Rory Copus). Despite her ex-husband's urging that she start dating again, she has no man in her life. To the dismay of Rosie and David (David Mitchell), her British co-writer, her boss, Marty (Fred Willard) decides that the show may no longer cover controversial subjects, so Rosie decides to cast a new character for the show. She is taken by Adam (Paul Rudd), a bright and charming young man from one of her auditions, and decides to cast him as a new, nerdy character to fall for the character played by her arrogant and self-centered lead actress, Brianna (Stacey Dash). Adam's character is well received by test audiences, and Rosie persuades Marty to give him a chance.
As she continues to offer Izzie advice on Dylan, Rosie becomes smitten by Adam, who suggests they go out to a club together. When he comes to pick her up, Adam bonds with Izzie immediately, helping her complete a mission on a video game she was playing, in order to impress Dylan. While there, Rosie lies about her age and says that she's 36, while Adam says that he is 32. Rosie is nervous about the age difference, but when he goes onto the dance floor at the nightclub, she realizes he is as free spirited as her, and joins him. The two kiss in Adam's car, during which Rosie admits that she's actually 40, only to be startled when Adam reveals that he's actually 29. Adam assures her that he doesn't care about their age difference at all, and the two continue their relationship. Nevertheless, Rosie's insecurity over her age begins to come out, egged on by her internal conversations with Mother Nature (Tracey Ullman), and she confesses to Adam that she is not sure that their relationship is going to work, to his confusion. Meanwhile, their relationship draws the jealousy of Rosie's secretary, Jeannie (Sarah Alexander), who begins to sabotage them by stealing Adam's gifts to Rosie, and then by stealing Adam's phone, taking a photograph of Brianna in a compromising position with it, and then putting it in Rosie's handbag, which does not succeed. Rosie continues to be nervous when she hears a recording of Adam flirting with Brianna (he had been encouraged to in order to keep her calm and the center of attention). Things become worse when Izzie has a failed double date with Dylan, and she starts to become insecure about her own appearance, something that concerns Rosie.
When Adam is first shown on television, he is an instant hit, and he starts to become famous from it. This leads to Rosie becoming even more insecure, and worrying that Adam will take advantage of his fame and start looking at younger women. Her situation worsens further when her show is unexpectedly cancelled. Shortly after, Adam is given a role in an upcoming sitcom, and she is shocked to discover a speeding ticket sent to Adam showing him in a car with Brianna. Already in a foul mood, Rosie is forced to berate Izzie when, during a chance encounter with her friend, Henry Winkler, he reveals that Izzie and her friend had prank-called a number of celebrities in her phone book. She confronts Adam with the photograph of him with Brianna, and he is shocked, having never been in a car with her before. Rosie angrily breaks up with him. Despite this, Adam makes numerous attempts to reconcile with her, including refusing to film the new sitcom he has been offered to take part in until she is named a co-producer. Meanwhile, Rosie is looking through a bloopers reel of her old show, when she realizes that it was filmed at the time that the speeding ticket claimed Adam had been driving with Brianna, and deduces that the only person who could have sent it was Jeannie. She proceeds to confront Jeannie when Marty calls her to his office to offer her a job on Adam's sitcom, and hits her in the face, reducing her to tears. She then reconciles with Adam. Later, at a school talent show, she sees Izzie has finally succeeded in winning Dylan over, and watches as the two kiss. Mother Nature reminds her that, in growing older, she is making way for a girl like Izzie to replace her.

Tags: romantic, satire, feel-good

Review:
It had us ROTFL as we had gone through similar situations ourselves when we were dating.Paul Rudd is very funny much funnier than I remember him from Friends and Michelle Pfeiffer is perfect as the sexy, and somewhat insecure love interest.
The dialog in the film is clever and witty but light and self-parodying along the lines of Clueless.Overall, a very sweet and funny movie - I haven't enjoyed a romantic comedy this much since Annie Hall or Sleepless in Seattle..
Since the film won't be released for a few months, I'm not going to go into any specific plot details, however Hollywood's obsession with youth, plastic surgery, and untalented pretty people is amusingly (and sometimes disturbingly) exposed.Pfeiffer is a true movie star -- a brilliant actress and shamefully underrated comedian.
He's a talent power-house.Other notable fine performances are give by the one and only Tracey Ullman as Mother Nature, and Saoirse Ronan as Pfeiffer's daughter.I haven't laughed out loud at a movie in a long time, however I did last night -- many times.
I Could Never Be Your Woman is the first film directed by Amy Heckerling (Clueless) in like 7 years.
The movie was a light, fun romantic comedy that I enjoyed quite a bit (though I could have done without Tracy Ullman's "Mother Nature").
Her daughter is played by Saoirse Ronan, a talented young woman who is gonna be breaking out in a big way in the next year with this and roles in several other really big-name films.
I'd have to say that I was pleasantly surprised on how good this movie actually was.Michelle Pfeiffer and Pual Rudd have great chemistry throughout the whole movie.
He stars as Michelle's ex-husband in the movie and I laughed every time the both of them were on screen together.Pual Rudd was fantastic in this movie and it shows what he can do when given co-top billing in a comedy.
He was great in 40-year old virgin and in this he is no different.The movie has the same type of feel of Clueless, as it should, their both directed by the same person.
Give this movie a chance, it was funny and kept you entertained throughout the whole movie.I didn't give too much detail as you can tell, i just wanted to let you know a little bit of what to expect and how well the actors/actress's come together in this movie.Great date movie/or a movie to take your significant other.
I also loved the mother/daughter relationship between Rosie (Michelle Pheifer) and Izzie(Saoirse Ronan).
It handles the idea of older woman - younger man with a delicious sense of balance and farce; can it really be five years since Michelle Pfeiffer's last film?
And Paul Rudd stamps his charm all over this.The comedians, and there are a ton to spot here, especially British - a challenge to spot all of them - make up one of the better ensemble casts of the last few years.'I could never be your woman' is quite simply one of the best comedies of 2007 in our opinion - romantic or otherwise.
I could never be your woman unfortunately does not hit these highs but you will laugh and the characters have a certain warmth.The film really focuses on the relationship between Pfeiffer and her daughter which is unusual in the fact the most of the good comedy moments arise from the daughters relationship with her mother and her mothers personal life.
Her film posits that a middle-aged TV writer (Michelle Pfieffer) has some angst and insecurities in dating one of the new stars of her TV show (Paud Rudd), and it's not a bad premise.
This is also thrown in a quasi plot thread involving her daughter (Atonement's Saoirse Ronan, couldn't tell it was the same girl she's that good) as she tries to navigate her first possible boyfriend.A lot of this isn't delivered with all of the best execution- certainly it's hard to figure on what exactly makes the Tracy Ullman bits funny as they're slipped in with some awkward soft-focus and at ill-timing- and there's something kind of fishy about putting such an actress like Michelle Pfieffer, who is still incredibly beautiful for any age, in the role of an insecure woman who can't see herself with such a younger man after such a long break from being with a man.
At the same time, there is a good deal that does work to Heckerling's advantage, such as the bond between the mother and daughter in the story that doesn't ring as being sappy or trite like in other rom-coms or flicks with mother-daughter talks and such.
And almost in spite of the bright lighting, Paul Rudd lays on the same charm and wit carried over from the Judd Apatow comedies (if, of course, nowhere near as funny in the sensibility of crudeness).
Paul Rudd and Michelle Pfeiffer look like lovable people and decent actors.
Given that they live and work in Hollywood, a city where human relationships are based on appearance and people take extraordinary good care of themselves, it seems strange that somebody like Michelle Pfeiffer could be so insecure about her looks.
Now that we have grown up and Heckerling has too, she is skewering the beauty-obsession of Hollywood and its desire to look and be younger.Michelle Pfeiffer stars as the producer of a teen-based TV show, she's 40 and she's a single mom.
But that doesn't matter here because it's the right vehicle for all the hilarious Hollywood-bashing jokes.Heckerling is right-on-target with her many jokes, and her audience should appreciate the casting of "Clueless" vets Stacey Dash and Paul Rudd as actors playing high school teenagers.
Also stars Jon Lovitz as the ex-husband, and Academy Award nominee Saoirse Ronan as the daughter, plus even more great comedic actors.The right audience (teenagers of the 90s) should thoroughly enjoy "I Could Never Be Your Woman".
A Rom-Com with a built-in 10 year age difference (older woman, younger man) starring one of the most personable male leads ever (Rudd) and one of the most beautiful women since the Sumerians started keeping records (Pfeiffer), along with a wonderfully precocious teen star (Saoirse Ronan) as insurance.Mix in a (incredbly horrific) trope involving "Mother Nature" appearing in the story at random, and add one of Heckerling's favorite (but most over-rated) actors (Stacy Dash) and -- in theory -- you should have a hit.In fact, all you have when the dust settles is Rudd's charm and Pfeiffer's beauty and a very forgettable script..
Amy Heckerling brings forth a delightful romantic comedy centred around the romance between a younger man and older woman.
Heckerling gently presents themes like people's obsession with youth, plastic surgery, looks mattering more than personality and talent.Heckerling's exceptional cast The eternally gorgeous Michelle Pfeiffer takes a break from the negative roles and delivers a splendid performance.
For example, the scene where Rosie and her daughter play with Barbies, Adam 'acting around' with everyone, Nathan's obsession with looking young, Rosie arguing with Mother Nature.
The script gave little attention to the falling in love part of the romance between Pfeiffer and Rudd- what made him hit on her right out of the box?
(1) Feel free to gripe to the high heavens about MY take on it and (2) refuse to be so presumptuous as to issue dire warnings to others to avoid the movie like the plague.IMDb reviewers who trash this film and decree that others will obviously share their minority views do so knowing it has a respectable 62% IMDb rating, 80% Rotten Tomato rating and such as Roeper and guest host gave it four thumbs up.I was howling throughout most of this film which means (to me) they don't make enough such quality romantic comedies these days....and too bad it skipped the theaters.
To seal the deal the film tosses in minor albeit humorous roles by Jon Lovitz and Fred Willard, has a sharp, hip script, very good chemistry between Pfieffer and Rudd, a dash of Tracy Ullman and Pfeiffer's precious daughter Izzie who's an enchanting Beverly Hills 13 going on 23 type.
Finally, the broader comedy scope, beyond any May-December theme is the back drop of the film to wit: Pfeiffer is a tinsel town TV show producer and most are involved in and around her show.It is often said one can tell when actors are 'having fun' on the set.
The jokes are not funny, the romance is unbelievable, the scenes are written by the very people the film is criticizing and, when at least you think the point of view is somewhat fresh, they bury it in clichés.Michelle Pfeiffer is still cute, but she's forty.
Paul Rudd makes the entire film worth it, although he doesn't have to do much except clown around like a horny kid.
Lovitz did good work, Rudd was pretty solid, Pfeiffer did not bring her best, although she still shines--albeit excessively--in this turd of a movie.
The most enjoyable part of this movie was trying to predict which lighting option was gonna hit Michelle Pfeiffer in each scene.
40something comedy TVshow producer Michelle Pfeiffer falls in love with a young comedian who is 20s.
Let's be cool like this movie.The most impressive scene is the relationship between Michell Pfeiffer and her daughter.
I hated whenever she was on screen and the entire hour or so that Rosie and Adam were not together dragged.Paul Rudd is charming and Michelle Pfeiffer shines but it's almost not worth it to sit through the rest of the garbage surrounding them.
Yeah, maybe is not the best movie I've seen in years, but it's a comedy and sometimes you just wanna have a good time and laugh.
And trust me, you will because this movie has something, maybe in the writing or in the good performances that just makes every scene really funny.
Romantic comedy about Michelle Pfieffer and Paul Rudd.
Fred Willard as Michelle's boss, Wally Shawn as her daughter's teacher, Stacy Dash as the star of the wacky show that Michelle writes and Sally Kellerman as the head of the P.T.A. This film is soooo much better than all the lame, phoney romantic comedies and it would've been a big hit but now at least you can get the DVD.
Considering the talent involved - writer/director Amy Heckerling and actors Michelle Pfeiffer and Paul Rudd - I Could Never Be Your Woman could contend for the most high-profile motion picture yet to take the direct-to-DVD route.
Rosie (Michelle Pfeiffer) is divorced mother of Izzie (Saoirse Ronan) and a producer of a silly high school TV show.
I like Michelle Pfeiffer and Paul Rudd as a lovely couple.
But let's be honest, in fact, the movie is a big joke of the film industry focuses on all those who work, yes you guessed, in Hollywood.From one moment to other criticizing women frivolous and society interested in platitudes ceases to exist by showing a story focusing on the clichés of the genre and repetitive immaturity and little grace of Adam, who turns out to be irritating thanks to the child interpretation of Paul Rodd.So joke after joke film begins to lose its grace which makes for moments seem that history is not progressing and that several of the scenes seem a repetition of the other.Something that should commended is the way in which the limited appearances by Jon Lovitz get the stronger public laughs and it's really him, which allows the movie is not sinking in a boring sea of winks to the industry.I admit the trailer fool me again, I didn't laughed so much (2 times to be exact), yes, Pfeiffer continues her beauty but not her grace and sensuality (we will not forget the image of Catwoman), and leads me to home a bad taste.
This movie is by Amy Heckerling who is the one the brought you Clueless Which was another great film.
Director Amy Heckerling directed two of my favourite juvenile comedies,Clueless and Fast Times at Ridgemont High.But,after Clueless,her career declined with the mediocre film Loser and,now,with I Could Never Be Your Woman,a film with a lot of flaws.I Could Never Be Your Woman lacks of a good story,actors Michelle Pfeiffer and Paul Rudd do not have any chemistry,the characters are not well constructed and,the worst thing of all,this film bores pretty much.Pfeiffer has some charisma but her sympathy does not save this crappy film.I Could Never Be Your Woman is a crappy romantic comedy.In Clueless,Heckerling showed she can do something excellent when she wants,so I wish she will put the same enthusiasm she put in Clueless and Fast Times at Ridgemont High on her next film..
Heckerling should have recognized what she had here and initiated major script revisions to amp up Ronan's screen time; especially more scenes of her playing off Paul Rudd (her mother's boyfriend) and Jon Lovitz (her father).
Michelle Pfeiffer and Paul Rudd (who played Cher's stepbrother in "Clueless") play the film's May-December romantic couple.
Then again when you try to figure out the film's target audience you realize that it is even narrower than the standard "chick flick", and unlike Heckerling's hit films there is nothing here of interest to the teen demographic.Rosie (Pfeiffer) is a middle age TV writer/producer whose once popular TV series needs a talent transfusion, and whose main occupation seems to be staying young.
The dynamic between the actors in the film, notably Pfeiffer, Soairse Ronan as her middle-school aged daughter and love interest Paul Rudd creates a world where even Jon Lovitz is enjoyable to watch.
I was rather disappointed that one of my favorite actresses Michel Pfeiffer had agreed to a movie like I Could Never Be Your Woman.
If Hollywood goes this direction with comedy, i might start looking out for it again.P.S. this movie might appeal to a younger public, but don't turn your back on it because of YOUR age!
Enjoyable mother/daughter movie, mediocre romantic comedy.
They have the perfect relationship with only one minor bump that's as deep as a plot device on a Disney Sitcom.Where the film really works, however, is with the mother/daughter relationship between Michelle Pfeiffer and Saoirse Ronan.
There are some great points about human nature that she gets to articulate, but it feels like the character of Mother Nature introducing the film and popping up at random to have conversations with Michelle Pfeiffer belongs in a more surreal film.Overall, a good light hearted film.
the film involves A LOT of funny jokes ( on the "fly" many of them) making fun of everything in Hollywood, from producers and "stars" to the way this business is handled on set.on top of it the mother-daughter relationship is Awesome.
On the upside is Pfeiffer herself, who manages to look sensational at 47 despite the technical deficiencies and appears relaxed and assured despite the unimaginative ways Heckerling drives the cliché-driven story.Set in LA (though filmed primarily in London), the film stars Pfeiffer as Rosie, both a successful TV sitcom producer in a cruelly youth-oriented industry and a recently divorced mother raising her adolescent daughter Izzie through puberty.
One funny conceit that Heckerling exploits is the casting of jaded older actors as the teens in the sitcom, and in that spirit, she recruits Stacey Dash and Paul Rudd, both from 1995's "Clueless", to play two of the actors.
While I generally like Tracey Ullman a lot, her role as Mother Nature feels so wedged in that I just wish Heckerling could have trusted the material more to avoid such a tired movie ploy.
Michelle Pfeifer looks gorgeous and Paul Rudd is cute and funny.
I thought the mother/daughter relationship was sweet and funny, and I thought that Paul Rudd was hilarious.
It's better than a lot of the silly rom coms of recent years.This is a good look at a May December older woman and younger man romance.
Michelle Pfeiffer (still lovely) and Paul Rudd are both well cast in their roles.
For those who love Clueless this is a great and different comedy that is just as good in it's own way.
It is normal for an older man to fall for a younger gal, but what happens when the younger one is the man???MOthernature scenes were not that good anyway, I would definitely without a doubt be with someone like Pfeiffer's character in the movie...MIAM!.
Yes, this is the kind of movie that will get you lucky with your girlfriend if you accept to watch it with her.The plot is simple and very clichéd but it works perfectly because Mother Nature is added as a recurring and supporting character.The movie deals with a sexy 40+ year old woman who after two divorces tries to start a romantic relationship with a 29 year old guy who teaches her that love has no age.Both meet on the filming on t.v. shows and well, many things in the likes of these kind of romantic comedies lead to funny and romantic situations that will please women specially.Jon Lovitz steals the show with his minimal appearances.
Michelle Pfeiffer is spectacular as always; I mean, she's very sexy, has aged very good, looks secure and delivers a charming funny performance.
Light, very light girls comedy/romance film, Michelle plays OK and sometimes we think she's acting from her own life experience.So why bashing something that's not that bad.
The first being the undeniable chemistry between Michelle Pfeiffer and Paul Rudd.
This, I think, is one of Paul Rudd's best movies ever.
The next part is Pfeiffer's film daughter, Izzie, played spectacularly by Saoirse Ronan, who is able to be funny and cute without trying to be too hip seeming like a real kid.
Romantic comedies abound, so I was hesitant to retry the genre with yet another film starring Michelle Pfeiffer.
Rosie's ex-husband adds to her difficulties by acting less mature than his barely teen-aged daughter.Paul Rudd was effective as the younger man (Adam) who falls for the beautiful older woman.