![]() ![]() Rather than stay with the crooks and either go to the mattresses or Sicily with the men eluding capture as we did in “The Godfather,” Hart and Horowitz instead opt to follow Diane Keaton's Kay instead, or rather, their Kay in the form of Jean.Ī light flutter of wind you initially ignore until it builds into a tornado that no one – not even the weatherman sees coming – Jean goes from a meek, decorative glass figurine living in her husband's dollhouse to a frazzled yet determined woman trying to find and hold onto any semblance of control she has in her new, now suddenly uncertain life. “Something happened tonight,” one of Eddie's partners tells her and, handing her a bag with two hundred grand in it and instructions to take the kid and go with a man named Cal (Arinzé Kene), we discern that that is all we need to know. Serving not as the movie's climax the way that most heists are utilized in crime movies centered on male protagonists, “Woman” is instead concerned with how one man's actions and decisions affect the woman at its core and the baby she's left to protect. What went wrong on the job remains a mystery for the better part of the movie but it's only interesting from a tangential perspective because it happens offscreen. Thus, one man or – to be more precise – one “he” replaces the other in Jean's life and our leading lady goes from being the woman and the whole world for one to the woman and the whole world for another when Eddie fails to return home following a job gone disastrously wrong. ![]() And no, that's not a spoiler, it's merely the set-up for this engaging piece of storytelling from “Miss Stevens” and “Fast Color” director Julia Hart, who wrote the film along with her husband, producer Jordan Horowitz.Ī clever reinvention of '70s cinematic crime fiction, in “I'm Your Woman,” Jean gains a baby and loses a husband, the first when one arrives home unexpectedly and the second when the other does not. You see, mere moments after he says this, Eddie disappears from Jean's life. He's "your baby,” Eddie says, correcting himself in a line of dialogue that's as much an important distinction as it is an eerie piece of foreshadowing for the film. “He's our baby,” he explains but then changes his wording later on. Sensing his wife's hesitation, Eddie promises Jean that it's all worked out. The only difference between this and the typical swag that the veteran thief brings home is that this property is not only hot but it's also a living and breathing thing and as such, it looks immediately out of place in this cold, catalog ready environment. Also given to Jean within the first five minutes of the movie is a new baby that her man Eddie (Bill Heck) delivers like a jumpsuit, string of pearls, or new stereo that might have fallen off the back of a truck in his vicinity over the years. Swanky, immaculate, and impractical, “I'm Your Woman” opens in the luxe '70s Pennsylvania home afforded to Jean (Rachel Brosnahan) by her husband's life of crime. Cast: Rachel Brosnahan, Arinzé Kene, & Marsha Stephanie Blake
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