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The Women (2017)

The Women poster
Directed by
Blessing Egbe
Genre
drama
Country
Nigeria
Runtime
1h 23m
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of four middle aged friends gather at a resort for a birthday weekend. As they share their lives, hidden secrets about their marriages and each other come to light.

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What happens

The Women is a 2017 Nigerian drama thriller film directed and produced by Blessing Effiom Egbe. The film stars Omoni Oboli, Katherine Obiang, Ufuoma McDermott, and Kate Henshaw-Nuttal with Gregory Ojefua, Lilian Afegbai, Roxy Antak and Femi Branch in supporting roles. The film is about four female middle aged friends. They bare many secrets about each other and respective marriages. One day they congregate in a resort one weekend on the occasion of one of their birthdays and expressed their secretive lives. The film premiered on 29 September 2017. The film received positive reviews from critics and screened worldwide. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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