What Women Want (2000)

Directed by

Nancy Meyers

Genre

fantasy film, screwball comedy film, science fiction film, romantic comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 07m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 4,428 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A chauvinistic advertising executive gains the ability to hear women's thoughts. He uses this new power to get ahead at work and understand the women around him.

lightheartedplayfulamusingromanticfantasticalscrewballfeel-goodbreezy

What happens

What Women Want is a 2000 American romantic fantasy comedy film written by Josh Goldsmith, Cathy Yuspa, and Diane Drake, directed by Nancy Meyers, and starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt. The film was released on December 15, 2000, by Paramount Pictures in the United States and Canada and by Icon Productions in international markets. It received mixed reviews from critics, but was a box-office success, with a North American domestic gross of $182 million and a worldwide gross of $374.1 million against a budget of $70 million, becoming the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2000. A loose remake, What Men Want, was released in 2019, starring Taraji P. Henson, Tracy Morgan and Aldis Hodge. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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