In the Land of Women (2007)

No, your mind isn't playing tricks on you. The Kasdan who directed In the Land of Women is neither Lawrence Kasdan, who brought you The Big Chill and Body Heat, nor his son Jake, whose third big-screen comedy, The TV Set, is also about to open. It's Jonathan Kasdan making his debut as writer-director with In the Land of Women. His script showed enough potential to attract an appealing cast that includes Adam Brody, Meg Ryan, and Kristen Stewart. Well, maybe Daddy's clout helped a hair. Jonathan's film, about a screenwriter and the women who fall in love with him, is a mite indulgent. Dealing as it does with the health crisis of Ryan's character, the deluded teenage insecurity of Stewart's character, and the cutesy death-watching of Olympia Dukakis as Brody's grandmother, In the Land of Women feels too often like one of James L. Brooks' irritating late-period dramedies.