What Women Want
Short description
Nick Marshall is a Chicago advertising executive who assumes he is next in line for a creative director position at his agency. The job instead goes to Darcy McGuire, a woman brought in to lead the department, and Nick is left reporting to her. The two clash over how to sell products aimed at women, an assignment Nick approaches with little understanding and less enthusiasm. After an accident while experimenting with the products, Nick discovers he can hear what women are thinking, a talent he initially uses to compete with Darcy and undermine her at work.
Nancy Meyers directed the film, her second feature after The Parent Trap, and she also produced it alongside Bruce Davey and Susan Cartsonis. Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa wrote the screenplay. Mel Gibson stars as Nick, with Helen Hunt as Darcy, Marisa Tomei as Lola, Alan Alda as Dan Wanamaker, Ashley Johnson as Nick's daughter Alex, and Mark Feuerstein as Morgan Farwell, part of a credited cast of 99 and a crew of 130.
Released in December 2000, the film cost about 70 million USD to make and returned roughly 374 million USD worldwide, a strong result against its budget. Ratings sit at middling levels, with a 6.5 out of 10 on IMDb from around 239,000 votes and the same score on TMDB from about 4,500 votes. A critics' rating of 5.9 out of 10 from 122 reviews places it close to the audience scores, with neither group rating it highly.
What's left behind the scenes
- The scene where Nick presents his video to the Nike representatives featured actual employees of the company.
- In Darcy's office, on her desk, is a photograph depicting Keira Knightley.
- Some moments in the film echo scenes from the comedy "As Good as It Gets" (1997). For example, the kissing scenes in the restaurant, the hero’s nighttime arrival to his beloved (played by Helen Hunt in both films), and their conversation on the stairs, as well as the actors’ miming during awkward pauses.
- The first time Nick undergoes depilation, he rips a wax strip off his leg, which sticks to his fingers. After that, Nick takes pantyhose out of a box and begins to put them on, but in reality, he wouldn't be able to do that, because, as is well known, wax on the body clings to anything.
- The film's final scene, in which Nick comes home to Darcy, almost exactly replicates a similar episode from "As Good as It Gets," which also starred Helen Hunt in the lead female role.
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