Women in Trouble News

Writer, director and producer Sebastian Gutierrez adds indie comedy to his long rA©sumA© of thriller and horror films with Women in Trouble.

In the most indelible scene of "Broken Embraces" , Pedro Almodovar's latest vivid melodrama, Penelope Cruz plays dress-up. As an aspiring actress named Lena, she's testing wardrobe for a film.

The 10 women - mothers, porn stars, hookers, bartenders, stewardesses, shrinks - of Sebastian Gutierrez's interconnecting stories in Women in Trouble may not get into very inventive scrapes considering the title and the cast, but a lucky alchemy of writer and cast turns what could have been an indie bore into something surprisingly uproarious.

To judge by the swelling bosoms spilling out of the frame, the lingerie bill for "Women in Trouble" must have been estimable.

Robert Altman's Nashville has had many imitators over the years: films that take an array of unrelated characters, then have them cross paths in the course of a day or a few days, hoping to strike sparks of friction or create harmonic resonance between people from different worlds as they encounter each other for the first time.

From acclaimed writer-director Sebastian Gutierrez comes an outrageous, genre-bending, multi-layered comedy about one day in the lives of ten seemingly disparate women - including a porn star, a flight attendant, a psychiatrist, a masseuse, a bartender and a pair of call girls -- all with one thing in common: trouble.

Wes Anderson's "Fantastic Mr. Fox" looks surprisingly Anderson-like for a stop-motion animated movie based on the classic Roald Dahl story.

Career-wise, there seems to be no trouble on the horizon for actress Carla Gugino.

Marley Shelton, left, and Garcelle Beauvais in 'Women in Trouble,' which follows a series of female characters through life crises.

Poor Carla Gugino. One of the hardest working actresses in Hollywood, she never fails to make an impression, but just can't seem to break through to that next level of stardom.

Capsule reviews of films opening this week: "Fantastic Mr. Fox" - With George Clooney, Meryl Streep and Bill Murray leading the top-notch voice cast, director Wes Anderson has found an ideal story and medium - stop-motion animation - to bring his cockeyed vision to the cartoon world.

"Women In Trouble" follows a day in the life of 10 different females, united by their uncanny ability to look fabulous in their underwear while in the throes of emotional crisis.

When porn starlet Electra Luxx discovers that she's pregnant, her wild world of pleasure and excess is suddenly turned upside down.

Over one eventful day in Los Angeles, a series of women -- including a newly pregnant porn star, an uptight businesswoman, a masseuse, an escort, a therapist and a teenager -- all find themselves in surprising situations with unexpected people.

This randy little indie film- -an ensemble piece featuring Elizabeth Berkley, Simon Baker, Emmanuelle Chriqi, Joseph-Gordon-Levitt, Josh Brolin slinging a Brit accent, and Carla Gugino in a loose-woman role , and was directed by Gugino's boyfriend, Sebastian Guttierez.

I have to admit there's a certain chick-flick feel to the trailer for Women in Trouble , which is unfortunate, although I can understand having to distill the pure insanity of the movie into just a few minutes.

Screen Media has debuted the official trailer for Women in Trouble starring the lovely Carla Gugino over on Apple .

The first official trailer for Women in Trouble is out. Thought it features a wide variety of half-naked strippers, Carla Gugino as a naughty nun, and Josh Brolin attempting a strange British accent, and half the celebrities in Hollywood, it's not nearly as fun as it sounds.

Every few years, a woman-heavy ensemble hits the theaters, and I always hope it's going to be as good as the standard, Steel Magnolias .

A pregnant porn star, a couple of call girls, a scorned psychiatrist, a teenage goth, a flight attendant with a crush on a famous passenger… the troubles of this cluster of LA women couldn't be more different, but on one crazy day feminine compassion will alter all of their lives.