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IN THE LAND OF WOMEN Release Date: April 20th, 2007 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Kristen's Role: Lucy Hardwicke Also Starring: Adam Brody, Meg Ryan, Olympia Dukakis Directed by: Jonathan Kasdan Produced by: Lawrence Kasdan, Steve Golin, David J. Kanter Screenplay by: Jonathan Kasdan Genres: Comedy, Drama and Romance Running Time: 1 hr. 37 min. Distributors: Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution U.S. Box Office: $11,043,445

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For as long as he could remember, Carter Webb had been falling in love with women. And for as long as he could remember, he'd been searching for the right one. He found everything he was looking for in Sophia and for a little while he was happy. Unfortunately, it wasn't meant to be. When Carter is dumped by Sophia in a North Hollywood coffee shop, he sees his entire life flash before his eyes. Heartbroken and depressed, Carter escapes Los Angeles, heading across the country to suburban Michigan to care for his ailing grandmother. An eccentric and complicated personality, Grandma offers Carter a uniquely different perspective on life and especially death. Soon after his arrival, Carter stumbles into the lives of the family living directly across the street, Sarah Hardwicke, the mother of two daughters: Paige, a precocious, effervescent eleven-year-old and her older sister Lucy, an angst ridden teenager. While Sarah faces her own personal crisis, Lucy wrestles with the fears that define her. Through his relationships with these women, as well as his grandmother, Carter begins to discover that what felt like the end was really only just the beginning of his adventure.

Lucy is the teenaged Hardwicke daughter, one of the women who live across the street from Carter's grandmother. She has a strainted relationship with her mother and often feels disconnected from her friends, though she's popular and dating a football player. When Carter comes around, Lucy finds herself drawn to him and opening up her feelings to him.

"I play a girl who, it’s nice, I can absolutely relate to her in every way. Her story is really a triumphant coming of age. Something crazy happens to you when you’re 13. All of a sudden you have these really bad, weird, foreign insecurities and you’re like, ‘Where did this come from? Why do I feel this way?’ You just go a little crazy. I think you’re really your true self when you’re a little kid and then you kind of get that back in different stages and I’ve just gone through that. I turned 16 and I was like ‘Wow! I feel so good. Why have I been feeling so stupid and insecure?’ I think everyone goes through that to a certain extent and in her case, that’s what the story is about. It’s really just a triumphant little coming out."

"This potentially saccharine weepy has an authentic ring, thanks to Jon Kasdan's script and a cast capable of delivering clever lines that sound just about right for whatever situation they're in."

-- Susan Walker | Toronto Star (Full Review)

"Lip-locking lapses aside, Carter's relationships with Sarah and with Lucy are rooted in the sharing of ideas and dreams and disappointments and fears.">

-- Richard Roeper | Chicago Sun-Times (Full Review)

"No one is conniving or desperate enough for the movie to become a decent melodrama. And the conversations are too stale to culminate in interesting romance."

-- Wesley Morris | Boston Globe (Full Review)

"The meek, mopey comedy In the Land of Women is the film equivalent of a sensitive emo band with one foot in alternative rock and the other in the squishy pop mainstream: a softer, fuzzier Garden State."

-- Stephen Holden | New York Times (Full Review)