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Nick Marshall (Mel Gibson) is a real ladies man. He is a total chauvinist. He calls women "baby", and "Sweetheart", and he has no respect for them at all. He is expecting to be promoted to Creative Director, but is informed by his boss that the job has gone to someone else, a woman! Darcy Maguire (Helen Hunt) has been hired from a competitor where she brought in tons of new business last year. Nick is pissed! He is real cold about her coming to his company and determined not to cooperate with her. She's a doll! She is smart and to the point, and she is a leader. At an introductory meeting with all of the agents she gives everyone a box with about ten different things in it. These products are all feminine oriented. Nicks company garnered NO female business last year. All of these products are looking for new advertisers. Nick has a fifteen year old daughter. She is a real smart-ass and thinks that she is thirty. She is staying with him for two weeks while her mom is on her honeymoon. That night Nick goes to his hi-rise apartment and puts on some Sinatra, opens a bottle of wine, and digs into the box of products to see if he can come up with any ideas. He tries out the fingernail polish, the wonder bra, the panty hose, and the hair gel. Then he tries the home waxing kit and slipped into the bathtub with a hair drier and electrocutes himself. The next morning he woke up and all of a sudden he can hear women's thoughts. Everywhere he goes he can hear everything that women are thinking. He has an idea that if he can read Darcy's mind, he can scoop all of her ideas and take her job. His ideas are working and one day he hears her thinking about NIKE. He tells her that he has been considering NIKE and wants to pitch for their account. Working with her, he starts stealing her ideas. He sells NIKE and all of a sudden her job is in jeopardy. The problem is that he is falling in love with her and is ashamed of what he is doing. In the mean time, his daughter is dating a total piece of trash who has only one thing on his mind. He really wants to be a dad to her. All of these female thoughts are actually turning Nick into a great guy. He figures out that he is in love with Darcy and must tell her. She has lost the job and Nick goes to his boss and tells him that he must hire her back. When he finally tells her that he has been playing her she is mad and fires him. He accepts and walks away, but she calls him back. In an electrical storm he is under some wires when lightening strikes and he loses the ability to hear women's thoughts. He an Darcy are together.Read full review
What if a man’s man kind of guy suddenly could read the minds of the women around him, and he hears what they really think of him?? What if he uses his new power to steal someone else’s plans? Mel Gibson plays a great role here as the jerk who finds out how things really are. HelenHunt does a great job of being first the victim and then the overcomes.
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I did not think it was very good. There was not too much to be said for either actor. In other movies they very good in the roles they play.
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My partner and I had just finished watching a serious Mel Gibson movie. I commented that it was challenging for me to accept Mel in a serious role when the only other one of his movies I had seen was "What Women Want". I saw that in 2001 in the movies when it originally came out. It was such a funny and clever story that I still remembered it. While Mel was convincing in both of these movies at opposite ends of the spectrum, I found "What Women Want" much more memorable than the historical movie we just watched.
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Mel Gibson would be wiser to stay away from anything regarding 'what women want' since his real life sexism is blatantly obvious to any savvy observer. I imagine he enjoyed getting to play himself in this flick--a chauvinist who calls women "baby," (I'd say, "that's Dr. Baby to you!"). Director, producer, and writer Nancy Meyer has finally played with Mel Gibson in a role the "heddon" (quoting the L.A. police report article on Courttv.com) belongs in. Using woman-defaming lines like "bitch on wheels," the 'wreckless speeding stud on booze' is exposed for the truth of who he really is both in the movie & in real life. The only reason I even bother to review it is because Nancy Meyer brilliantly outs Mel Gibson for WHAT he really is: a supremacist. Brava to her excellent work.
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