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I was puzzled after reading Mark Olsen's 11.8 "Indie Focus" column this morning. The focus was Sebastian Guitterrez's Women in Trouble, an apparently sexy, allegedly Pedro Almodovar-esque indie anthology that will open in New York and Los Angeles on 11.13. It costars Carla Gugino, Adrianne Palicki, Marley Shelton, Simon Baker, Elizabeth Berkley and Josh Brolin.

My confusion wasn't just about my never having received a screening invite. It was also due to three top-ranked journalists I called this morning (including L.A. Times columnist and screening series host Pete Hammond, who knows everyone and sees everything) telling me they'd never heard of Women in Trouble, much less received an invite themselves.

I eventually learned that the film is being repped by Mike Rau of 42West. There have been one or two select screenings in Los Angeles, apparently. (I'm not sure about NYC showings.) The responses, I'm told, have been moderate to cool. A guy I spoke to who's seen it says "it's not bad...there's nothing horribly wrong with it, but it's not great either."

Screen Media is a kind of "for hire" vanity distributor, I gather. You pay them, they put it out there, handle the ads and whatnot.

I'm a Gugino fan (especially after seeing her in Desire Under The Elms) and really wouldn't mind seeing this. Any movie with girls running around in underwear gets at least half a pass from this quarter. Okay, not really but underwear is...you know, a pleasant thing.

Here's a South by Southwest review by Variety's Joe Leydon. Here's the Wikipedia page. Here's a promotional/fictional blog by Gugino's "Elektra Luxx" character.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on November 8, 2009 at 11:56 AM

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BurmaShave says ...

Well I'm sorry, but if they've never heard of it they're out of the loop. Great cast so I have hopes but Guitterrez is such a shit director. Bonus points for the Almodovar by way of John Waters title though.

Posted by BurmaShave at November 8, 2009 1:49 PM

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jesse says ...

I've heard a little, albeit not very far in advance, about Women in Trouble NYC screenings. I think I'm seeing it on Tuesday, in fact, and looking forward to it.

The 11/13 NYC opener that seems really hidden to me is Uncertainty, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, written and directed by the guys who made the quite-good The Deep End back in 2001, and released by IFC Films. It looks like sort of a Sliding Doors/Run Lola Run focusing on a couple instead of a lead female. Jeff, I know you're not a huge JGL fan, but I think he's one of the best of his generation, so I was pretty damn surprised to not have even heard of this movie until a friend of mine mentioned the trailer being on the Apple site (and it is). It hits IFC Center (and only IFC Center) on Friday and I've never seen the trailer in theaters (not even when I was at the IFC Center last month), never seen a poster, never heard about screenings.

Actually, I think JGL is in Women in Trouble, too, though in what sounds like a smaller role.

Posted by jesse at November 8, 2009 1:51 PM

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Jeffrey Wells says ...

Seeing it on Tuesday where? Write me privately.

Posted by Jeffrey Wells at November 8, 2009 1:58 PM

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btwnproductions says ...

It was NY-screened once in July and a couple of times in August. That's all I heard.

Posted by btwnproductions at November 8, 2009 2:00 PM

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jesse says ...

Jeff, the email address I had for you bounced. Are you gruver1@ somewhere else now, or should I just use the contact form on the site?

Posted by jesse at November 8, 2009 2:20 PM

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AitchCS says ...

I liked Carla in those Spy Kids movie. Then she had her own TV series for a few weeks.

Posted by AitchCS at November 8, 2009 4:30 PM

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scooterzz says ...

saw it a few days ago in prep for tomorrow's press day interviews w/gugino and guitierrez...it was fine, nothing to get excited about...i hardly think it's being 'hidden'......

Posted by scooterzz at November 8, 2009 4:56 PM

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DeeZee says ...

jesse: I'm ok w/ JGL, but I wouldn't call him the "best" of his generation, just because he takes on more mature parts than other former child actors. He needs to emote like a world-weary chap, and I just don't see it right now. At the moment, he just comes off like an emo version of those Culkin kids. But I see potential down the road, if he doesn't just keep playing himself.

Posted by DeeZee at November 8, 2009 6:08 PM

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Wiggumx says ...

The spam machine has an opinion on JGL. Unfortunately, no one cares.

Posted by Wiggumx at November 8, 2009 9:33 PM

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Gordon27 says ...

I don't love JGL, but isn't he the best of his generation by default? Who's his competition? Jesse Eisenberg?

Posted by Gordon27 at November 8, 2009 11:13 PM

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Floyd Thursby says ...

Judas Kiss, a 1998 Gutierrez-Gugino-Baker collaboration, received similar treatment: released only in Seattle, then on to video and cable. It's a fascinatingly bad film because of the odd cast, which includes Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman as FBI agents. The scene in which Gugino uses her sex appeal to manipulate a New Orleans crime boss played by Philip Baker Hall is some of the best work either has done. By the way, that Carla can manipulate me anytime. Hal Holbrook's in it, too.

Posted by Floyd Thursby at November 9, 2009 4:44 AM

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