Jean’s life is a little unusual even before it goes to shit. She sits on a lounge chair in the back yard, sipping wine in her marabou-trimmed dressing gown, dark glasses covering the sorrow in her eyes. She and her husband meant to have babies, she tells us, but couldn’t. So now she’s got nothing to do. Except one day husband Eddie walks through the door with a baby in his arms, provenance unknown, may as well have the tags still attached not unlike her fancy new dressing gown.
With a baby literally dropped right in her lap, Jean’s (Rachel Brosnahan) life is certainly turned upside down, and quite suddenly, but baby Harry’s actually the least of it. One night her husband goes out to work and in his stead, an associate of his turns up at some ungodly hour, stuffing a suitcase full of cash she didn’t know was in their closet, telling her not to pause for clothes or toiletries, they need to get out NOW. Delivered to her new minder Cal (Arinzé Kene), it turns out that her husband is a bad man who’s just betrayed his partners, and now she and baby Harry are running for their lives, their only allies Cal and his wife Teri (Marsha Stephanie Blake), who were complete strangers to her just minutes ago. Of course, she’s starting to realize that her husband’s been a stranger to her too, she just didn’t know it. A lot of his secrets are coming loose, and none of them are making Jean or her baby any safer.
I knew I was in for a 1970s crime drama of some sort but was pretty pleased to find it defying expectations. Director Julia Hart (who writes with husband/director Jordan Horowitz) wants to see things from the other side of the story, turning our assumptions on their head and finding fresh perspectives to breathe new life into a genre we’ve so many times before it’s already retro. Smart and subversive but sparsely told, I’m Your Woman examines mob life for the wives who’ve been left at home, but not entirely left out of the fray. The 70s were a rapidly changing time for women and the roles they played, and Hart discovers a very clever space for exploring it – at least between bouts of action, of course.
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A story of a husband, mysteries baby, and lots and tons of cash unknown aand this story has more tiwist and turns car racers on a rac track and ten times more exciting!
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This movie really has a surprising turn of events. I am curious to watch it now!
Happy New Year!
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But do we ever find out who the random baby belongs to?
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You know. Random babies. They come, they go.
Ownership is so retro.
In Tubularsock’s view it is best if they go.
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Given enough time, they usually do.
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Loved this movie. .. good one.
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Will check it out. Thanks, Jay 🙂
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Jay sounds like an interesting fun packed film. Money and Baby running from the Mob …. so romantic.
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Interesting setup.
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I’m in.
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Alright, I will look it up, I usually like 70’s based movies, if nothing else for the fashions! 😉
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I see quite (well, I used to, pre 2020) a lot of babies in the carts at Costco, so I’m presuming that’s where Eddie got his too.
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Haha, okay then! We’re just a 2 person family so we don’t shop at Costco, which is why I didn’t know they were sold in bulk there!
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It’s a bit like ‘Alice’s Restaurant’ 😀
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