atlasmb "The Other Woman" is not just about a woman who happens to be "the other woman". In every broken relationship, each woman is the other woman to the other. The film centers around Emilia (Natalie Portman) the young second wife of Jack (Scott Cohen). Jack's son William by his first wife (Lisa Kudrow) is the linchpin that ties both sides of the dysfunctional "family" together.Complicating things are Emilia's feelings toward her father, who was unfaithful to her mother years ago, causing the breakup of their marriage. Also, Emilia and Jack's daughter had died in infancy.There is plenty of guilt and blame to go around in this drama where everyone struggles with his own demons. The early part of the film did not resonate with me much, but the story gets stronger as it develops. By the end, I found it very rewarding.It's a rather bleak story, where--true to life--people tend to lash out rather than seek an objective view of their own baggage. But it is worth watching. The acting is fine. Lisa Kudrow's performance stands out for me. Overall, this is a solid film that develops rather slowly, but feels true to life.

jerestringer I really did not appreciate the name of this movie. It is totally misleading as to the depth and sorrow surrounding this story. Not that it isn't a well crafted movie, just that I don't enjoy sorrowful movies. They depress me. I just didn't connect with the characters and there was no chemistry at all, between them. I don't understand why this site requires that you write a certain number of lines? I didn't need 10 lines to express my impression of this movie. Normally, I love all these actors, especially Lisa Kudrow. As well as Natalie Portman. However, I just never saw chemistry develop between the two leads. The actor playing William, the son, was terrific. He stole the show.9-10-13

rapbuddha This is a really bad movie starring decent actors and nice shots of new york but with a laughable script and characters who although really obnoxious, i cant say that they are totally unrealistic-i am a lawyer in Piraeus, Greece and most people i know-Greek ''petit bourgeois''- are cynical, boring and fake just like the film characters- i often wonder if people in second rate cheesy Hollywood films like this one act the way people in real life behave or if it is the other way around, if people in small and globally unimportant countries like the one i have the misfortune to live in, currently struck by a sudden wave of huge unemployment,try to act like actors in US films so they can cope with business and social life situations and achieve the American-global dream egg finishing studies only as a means to getting married to a 50 year old fart -who exploits all the other young lawyers that didn't get laid with him, by underpaying them to do all his work- with a big house, a big car, lots of money, problems solved. However, the dialogs are more ridiculous than plan 9 from outer space, Natalie port man is way overrated both as a serious actress and a sex symbol, her aging face not being cute anymore and her average skinny short body very mildly desirable. Btw, she tends to act in a neurotic way in almost every film she stars in, even in comedies, shes hyperactive and screams a lot. I wonder if shes on coke or a crazy person in real life as well. She always impersonates lawyers, doctors, professors etc, women with a ''strong personality'', that is aggressive ball breakers with money and/or prestigious jobs to back their psycho and rude behavior towards mankind. I imagine that this could easily be the true personality of a Hollywood diva who also has a prestigious university degree. Despite what another commenter has written, the movie Doesn't show the viewer where it leads to until the end when you finally realize it was about the stepmother-stepson relationship. Somewhere in the middle of the movie, when Natalie was screaming(the way she did in the rest of the movie as well, for the most part), my stomach ached and i had a fleeting thought that i watched the black swan 2, a thriller in which the former ballet dancer would take her revenge on men by marrying them and then cutting their penis and murdering their only child, something like De pal mas Carrie but with female lawyers and not high school students in it. The only plus of the movie is the child actor. Don't know him, hadn't seen him before, but he was the only decent actor in this mess of a movie, supporting the ridiculous lines he had to speak out the way a top notch experienced actor would. Then, after laughing through the entire movie, comes the monologue of the child actor about death in Buddhism and the possibility of meeting someone dear to you that died again in the form of another person and the close up to his facial expressions and with it a great surprise, i actually cried. Its an extremely powerful scene and GREAT acting by the kid, even the interaction with Portman really works out in this scene. Its the only scene the kid STARS and not co-stars in and its the only scene that is worthwhile and then some.It was a shock to me that a movie i totally rejected from the start touched me so heavily for a few minutes-i don't cry that easily, for real! :p If not for the last 5 minutes, i would call this movie a chaotic disaster and rate it MINUS one(monstrously extremely awful). Watch out for the kid. Given a little luck, he might turn out a very gifted and successful actor within the next ten years!

Sherazade Natalie Portman plays a young attorney who has an affair with a married co-worker who then divorces his wife (played by Lisa Kudrow) in order to marry her when she becomes pregnant. The union is put to test when Emilia's (Portman) baby Isabel dies three days after birth. The death of the baby, hostility from the ex-wife, the family maid and more threaten to dismantle the marriage but the budding relationship between stepson and stepmother proves an unlikely source of saving grace and hope. Strong performances by Portman (who roles like this should be second nature to by now) and Kudrow. I have to admit it though, it's hard to feel sorry for Emilia as she did plan out her strategy to take another woman's man yet has the guts to sit in judgment of her own father who cheated on her mother.