Nancy Meyers directs the director’s second feature film, What Women Want: The Story of Nick Marshall, a deeply misogynistic divorced bachelor who discovers the power to hear women’s thoughts after being electrocuted.
In this way, the fantasy trigger allows for a large dose of punchy and punchy dialogues, before the film gradually moves towards the codes of classic Hollywood sentimental comedy.
modern in characterizing its characters, What women want Especially contrasting the brilliant Helen Hunt with Mel Gibson at his best. The latter doesn’t hesitate to poke fun at his can-do image, even if it means giving himself up to the need for a bathroom scene by waxing his legs.
His performance also earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Comedy.
With a worldwide gross of $374 million on a $70 million budget, What women want One of Nancy Meyers’ biggest commercial successes. Today, the film should be kept alongside other iconic romantic comedies of the 2000s, such as Bridget Jones’s Diary or Hitch.
What women want Nancy Meyers with Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt, Marisa Tomei…
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