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Aspiring writer Carter Webb has just been dumped by his true love, Sophia. Heartbroken

and depressed, Carter escapes Los Angeles to suburban Michigan to care for his ailing

grandmother and to work on a book he has always wanted to write.

Soon after his arrival, Carter stumbles into the lives of the family living directly across

the street: Sarah Hardwicke, and her daughters, Paige and Lucy. His relationships with all of

these women help Carter discover that what felt like an end was only just the beginning of

something else....

Warner Bros. Pictures and Castle Rock Entertainment present an Anonymous Content

Production, “In the Land of Women,” starring Adam Brody, Kristen Stewart, and Meg Ryan.

Written and directed by Jonathan Kasdan in his feature debut, In the Land of Women is produced

by Steve Golin and David Kanter and executive produced by Lawrence Kasdan. The director of

photography is Paul Cameron. The production designer is Sandy Cochrane. The film is edited by

Carol Littleton, A.C.E. The soundtrack is available on Lakeshore Records.

“In the Land of Women” will be released by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film has been

rated PG-13 for sexual content, thematic elements and language.

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Aspiring writer Carter Webb has just been dumped by his true love Sophia. Heartbroken and

depressed, Carter escapes Los Angeles to suburban Michigan to care for his ailing grandmother and to

work on a book he has always wanted to write.

Soon after his arrival, Carter stumbles into the lives of the family living directly across the street:

Sarah Hardwicke, and her daughters, Paige and Lucy. His relationships with all of these women help

Carter discover that what felt like an end was only just the beginning of something else....

Warner Bros. Pictures and Castle Rock Entertainment present an Anonymous Content

Production, In the Land of Women, starring Adam Brody, Kristen Stewart, and Meg Ryan. Written and

directed by Jonathan Kasdan in his feature debut, In the Land of Women is produced by Steve Golin and

David Kanter, and executive produced by Lawrence Kasdan. The director of photography is Paul

Cameron. The production designer is Sandy Cochrane. The film is edited by Carol Littleton, A.C.E. The

soundtrack is available on Lakeshore Records.

In the Land of Women will be released by Warner Bros. Picutres. The film has been rated PG-13

for sexual content, thematic elements and language.

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For as long as he could remember, Carter Webb (ADAM BRODY) had been falling in love with

women. And for as long as he could remember, he’d been searching for the right one. He found

everything he was looking for in Sophia (ELENA ANAYA) and for a little while he was happy.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t meant to be.

When Carter is dumped by Sophia in a North Hollywood coffee shop, he sees his entire life flash

before his eyes. Heartbroken and depressed, Carter escapes Los Angeles, heading across the country to

suburban Michigan to care for his ailing grandmother (OLYMPIA DUKAKIS). An eccentric and

complicated personality, Grandma offers Carter a uniquely different perspective on life and especially

death.

Soon after his arrival, Carter stumbles into the lives of the family living directly across the street,

Sarah Hardwicke (MEG RYAN), the mother of two daughters: Paige (MAKENZIE VEGA), a

precocious, effervescent eleven-year-old and her older sister Lucy (KRISTEN STEWART), an angst-

ridden teenager. While Sarah faces her own personal crisis, Lucy wrestles with the fears that define her.

Through his relationships with these women, as well as his grandmother, Carter begins to discover that

what felt like the end was really only just the beginning of his adventure....

Warner Bros. Pictures and Castle Rock Entertainment present an Anonymous Content

Production, In the Land of Women, starring Adam Brody, Kristen Stewart, and Meg Ryan. Written and

directed by Jonathan Kasdan in his feature debut, In the Land of Women is produced by Steve Golin and

David Kanter, and executive produced by Lawrence Kasdan. The director of photography is Paul

Cameron. The production designer is Sandy Cochrane. The film is edited by Carol Littleton, A.C.E. The

soundtrack is available on Lakeshore Records.

In the Land of Women will be released by Warner Bros. Picutres. The film has been rated PG-13

for sexual content, thematic elements and language.

www.myspace.com/itlow

ABOUT THE STORY

In his directorial debut, writer Jonathan Kasdan presents a personal and poignant story about the

serendipitous way in which people’s lives can intersect at the most critical times. Guided by the

formidable words of wisdom dispensed to all writers, write what you know, Kasdan found shifting gears

from the daily rigors of writing for television to penning a feature-length screenplay, became an act of

following his own heart and focusing on his love for film.

Kasdan explains, “I’ve been inundated with movies since my earliest memories. Films are my

passion. It took a couple of scripts for me to realize that what I had to do was write something that was,

among other things, fun. What I ended up writing was far more dramatic and more personal that I had

intended.” He continues, “When I sat down to write a movie about what I really loved, it seemed obvious

that what I really loved were women, being around them and trying to figure out my relationship with

them.”

Carter Webb’s adventure is one of self-discovery . where often the bumpy road traveled is more

illuminating than the final destination you arrive at. “The movie is really about a guy who is in the

process of falling in love with his life. When we meet Carter,” Kasdan says, “he’s struggling, conflicted

and a bit lost. At the end of the movie, his changes are very subtle as he’s had a couple of those moments

where he comes into contact with the overwhelming thrill of the journey of his life.”

The script’s ability to connect with those defining moments of everyday life was what attracted

producers Steve Golin and David Kanter to the screenplay. “This is a movie about humanity,” says

Kanter. “It’s fresh and original and the dramatic questions posed are very relevant and couched in real

language . the dialogue is funny and smart. You’re always hoping to find material that will leave an

impact on the audience.”

For Golin what makes In the Land of Women such a compelling story, is people colliding at a

time when everything in their lives, everything they thought they controlled, is slipping through their

fingers, and in that moment, find allies in each other. “The movie spans a very brief period of time. Both

Carter and Sarah are going through their own personal crises and for this short window they develop a

very poignant bond with each other. It’s about two people at the right time at the right place.”

Adam Brody adds “It's a really positive movie that's in love with life, in love with people, and in

the end, appreciates the everyday moments of life. It’s about relationships and love, and all those things

intersecting.”

In the Land of Women is a glimpse inside a female-centric world from a young man’s perspective.

What continually caught the actors off-guard was Kasdan’s uncanny ability to articulate a woman’s

perspective with such sensitivity.

“It’s the mystery of the movie. How does he know about all these relationships?” muses Meg

Ryan. “The tension in the family, all this unspoken stuff and how it plays out and how it affects

everything about each of their lives. All the things that are not said and that finally need to be said, and

that’s the great catharsis of the movie, is when things are finally expressed and they can finally be

healed.”

Olympia Dukakis offers, “Jon is so open, he doesn’t attempt to be something he’s not. He’s a

very sensitive, vulnerable guy who has tremendous enthusiasm. I think he’s had his own unique

experiences with women and understands the gravity of some relationships, the damage that can be done

and the joy that can be there. He’s written all of that in this story.”

Kanter suggests where Kasdan may have started to learn about the psychology of the opposite

sex. “Jon told us a story about when he attended this very renowned private school in West Los Angeles

and apparently wrote an advice column for the girls who attended this fancy girl’s private school in

Brentwood. He was giving advice to high school girls while being a teenager himself. It’s part of his

charm. He has an innate ability to observe human behavior and then to write about it.”

The cast is quick to weigh in with praise regarding Kasdan’s talent in his directorial debut. “Jon

blows me away. He’s so calm,” says Adam Brody. “It’s his first movie but you’d think it was his tenth.

He knows every aspect of a movie shoot, not just about setting up shots, but also different ways to light,

work with actors.”

Makenzie Vega adds, “Right before a scene, Mr. Kasdan comes over to me and reminds me about

little things with my character, he helped me so much. He’s so cool!” The coolness factor was one

admired by all the cast. “I think Jon is unbelievable and just so passionate about what’s he’s doing,” says

Kristen Stewart. “He wrote the script and you can ask him any question and he can tell you every thing

you want to know. It’s like he is every character!”

“I think audiences are really going to enjoy the humor in this story,” continues Dukakis, “seeing

all these characters at different ages grappling with love and love’s disappointments and expectations. I

suppose the passages of life are full of contradictions – they have joys, pains, disillusionment and

wonder.”

What is the director’s ultimate hope for what audiences will experience? “I feel like I’ve had that

a couple of times where I’ve been able to catch myself in a moment and think ‘This is the best, being

alive!’” says Kasdan. “It comes back to a Woody Allen quote from Deconstructing Harry where he’s

visited by the ghost of his old friend who’s just died. He’s in the jail cell and he says to the ghost, ‘I know

it sounds trite, but I just want to be happy’ and the ghost says ‘To be alive is to be happy. Take it from

me.’ That has stuck with me forever and it has become one of the formative pieces of dialogue in my life.

“This film speaks to this idea that is powerful in my life, which is some sort of synchronicity existing in

the universe where events seem to come together at the strangest moments, and sort of work together.

Hopefully that’s what audiences will see . that kind of magic.”

CAST AND CHARACTERS

Production was put on hold for eight months until lead actor Adam Brody was available, a

decision that the producers and Kasdan have never regretted. “Adam is the heart, soul and life blood of

this film,” says Kasdan. “I spent five months looking for an actor to play the lead in this largely

autobiographical story. What I discovered was that I wasn’t really looking for an actor to play me, I was

looking for a movie star to play someone way more attractive and far less neurotic! In Adam I found

everything I wanted for Carter. Adam is a pure, classic leading man in the tradition of Tom Hanks and

Cary Grant.”

Golin concurs, “Adam brings a lot of good will to Carter. He appears effortless in terms of his

performance . he’s very natural and that’s one of Adam’s big strengths. The audience wants to like him

even though sometimes he’s doing things that may be questionable. Audiences can’t help but give him the

benefit of the doubt.”

A struggling writer, Carter has fallen in love with a beautiful actress, a woman who may well be

out of his league, but it’s clear at the start of the film that he has built his world around her. The last

words the hopeless romantic ever thought he’d hear were that Sophia was moving on with her life and

career without him. When Carter goes home to break the news to his mother, Agnes (JoBeth Williams),

that Sophia has ended the relationship, Agnes seems more devastated than her son, recounting and

wallowing in her own tales of a broken heart. Agnes confides in Carter that she’s concerned his

dementia-prone grandmother living in Michigan has taken a turn for the worse.

Confesses Kasdan, “Carter is a character not unlike me in a lot of ways. He’s a very, very verbal

young guy who has lived his life sort of in a neurotic kind of active and imaginative way . all of his

successes and failures have been related to his ability to express himself. He’s one of those guys who’s

seen a lot of movies and who has lived as much on the other side of the screen as he has in the real world.

The thing he’s always fantasized about and worked his hardest at is this relationship with Sophia. But she

doesn’t want to be with him anymore.”

“Getting dumped by Sophia sends Carter into a tailspin,” says Brody. “He sees going to Michigan

to care for his grandmother as an opportunity to run away from his life for awhile, get his bearings and

hopefully figure some things out. Even though he doesn’t quite really know what those things are.”

While Carter’s and Sarah’s story unfolds, so does the viewer’s understanding that In the Land of

Women is not so much a physical place, as it is an emotional landscape where Carter learns about

relationships . about their frailties and their fleeting nature.

“When I finished the script and read it,” says Kasdan, “it became immediately clear that Sarah’s

part was an incredible opportunity to use Meg Ryan. I have been a fan of hers for a long time .she has a

real skill and craft that allows her to be funny and attractive . but also she has this incredible evolved

soulfulness. I’ve always felt like all the stories I tell on some level are about that space between your

ideals and your desires

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what you want to be and what you are, and how you reconcile those things on a

day-to-day basis.”

Ryan says she was deeply flattered that Kasdan chose her for the part and signed on without any

hesitation. The actress was excited to play such a complex woman who finds her world unraveling and is

desperate to put her life in order. “It was unbelievable because it’s such a fantastic part,” says Ryan.

“Dramatically it’s what every actor wants to get their hands on, a peaked emotional experience when you

have to accept that life is finite. But also, Sarah’s a bit funny and a little odd – everything you want to

indulge in. What I found interesting is that there are two protagonists in this movie, Carter and Sarah.

That doesn’t happen a lot of times for women in films. You’re usually the object of the director’s interest,

not the subject.”

Sarah Hardwicke is a typical suburban wife and mother who is in the throes of sifting through her

own life, a life that from all appearances is perfectly managed. With two teenage daughters, Lucy

(Kristen Stewart) and Paige (Makenzie Vega), in different stages of growing up, Sarah works to resolve

unattended relationships and realities.

“When we meet Sarah, she’s somebody who has up to now led a bottled up, unexpressed life,”

says Ryan. “We find her in chaos right off the bat. I love that! She’s got a tremendous relationship with

one daughter and a very compromised relationship with the other. She’s also in a marriage that’s not

making her or anybody else happy. Sarah’s a very composed, sort of sharp-cornered person, and into her

life comes this kid who actually turns out to be the catalyst for her to change her life the way she needs to

change it.

“What’s great about Sarah and Carter is what happens in so many lives,” says Ryan. “You expect

the people who influence you the most are going to be the longest lasting, but that is not always the case.

People come in, they float into your life and they alter your direction a hundred and eighty degrees. Carter

and Sarah meet and they change each other irreversibly for the better. I think for myself, that’s how the

angelic realm really operates on the planet. You do things for someone, not even knowingly.”

Portraying Grandma Archer is Academy Award®-winning actress Olympia Dukakis, who

welcomed the opportunity to experiment and have fun with the role of a deliciously fragmented old

woman. The film’s best comedic moments are those exchanges between Carter, with his laid-back, self

effacing charm, and a feisty, sharp-tongued old woman who switches between having flashes of wisdom

to hurtling insults.

“I thought Grandma would be a lot of fun. She’s out there, quite outrageous. I love how she can

be so helpless one minute then give you the finger the next,” laughs Dukakis.

“When Carter comes out to take care of her,” Dukakis continues, “he has no idea what’s waiting

for him . no idea how eccentric and how demanding and needy she is. He can’t just be a boarder at her

house, he has to engage with her . she doesn’t let him just drift through. Initially the grandmother and

Carter are very much at odds with each other, coming from very different worlds and realities. The fact

that they somehow find a way to bridge, not just a generation gap, but that they actually see in each other

something of value is truly wonderful.”

Playing the role of Lucy is Kristen Stewart, who embodies the essence of an anxious teenager

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rebelliousness, beauty and sexual awkwardness.

“Lucy is a very inward person,” comments Stewart. “Painting is where she expresses herself.

With Carter, she gets her first sense of puppy love, even though he’s way too old for her. At first she has

romantic expectations, but it’s more that she’s lost and here’s this guy that is there for her and he listens

to her. Maybe he can offer some unbiased point of view because he’s so far outside of her life, and then

she starts falling for him because Adam plays such a charismatic, endearing guy.”

“One of the things I really liked about In the Land of Women is that it didn’t stereotype or wasn’t

a cliché on teen angst,” continues Stewart. “Lucy is like so many of my friends, so many girls I know.

She’s kind of grooving along being herself then all of a sudden she’s like the popular girl and all that

attention kind of freaks her out. She doesn’t know how to deal with that plus she’s got this complicated

relationship with her mother that holds a lot of resentment. Carter teaches her a very valuable lesson

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you can’t allow your fears and resentment to inhibit your life.”

With regards to capturing on camera the strained relationship between Sarah and Lucy, Kasdan

was very deliberate with the blocking, always making sure there were physical objects between Ryan and

Stewart, or as one actor approached the other, one was moving away, intensifying the estrangement

between mother and daughter.

As Ryan explains, the emotional gulf between Sarah and Lucy is the complete opposite of the

effortlessly tender relationship she enjoys with her younger daughter Paige, played by Makenzie Vega.

“With Paige they have this sort of miraculously easy, close relationship that neither of them have

to try at,” says Ryan. “They have the same sense of humor, and there’s something about Paige that’s all-

knowing. Sarah doesn’t know why it’s so easy with one and so difficult with the other daughter. There’s

this constant kind of confusion and battle – she’s the same person but somehow different with each of

them.”

Golin provides further insight into what can fuel teenage-angst. “Lucy is going through a bit of

an identity crisis. She’s trying to figure out and come to terms with her womanhood . her sexuality and

independence from her mother. Lucy’s at that age where it’s very typical and natural to rebel against her

mother and Carter comes along and he’s charming, older and she’s quite intrigued by him.”

Kasdan adds, “Lucy’s character is struggling at every moment of her life with a sort of deep

confusion, which leads to an enormous amount of fear. It comes from some unfortunate events in her past

but things that so many people will be able to relate to. Her fear is not one some external danger, one of

betrayal and shame and being made to look like a fool, or not so much a fool as a freak.”

Makenzie Vega brings irresistible charm to the character of Sarah’s youngest daughter, Paige.

Poised at the edge of puberty, Paige approaches life with a wide-eyed honesty and stills holds onto the

magic of believing her mother is the center of the universe.

“Paige is kind of spunky and thinks she’s an adult,” says Vega. “I wanted to do this movie

because this character suits me. In one of the scenes she’s spitting out words that are bigger than she is,

like that’s something that makes her more intelligent. When we all meet Carter, he takes Lucy to the

movies and I want to tag along, and because I think I’m an adult, I think it’s my date but it’s not!”

“Meg Ryan is not like any of those soccer moms, she’s more laid-back. She’s a caring mom but

she’s not on top of every single one of our moves. We had a pretty close relationship,” adds Vega.

Having three sisters in real life, Vega established a very natural rapport with Stewart. “It’s really

easy with Kristen and we play off each other. Sometimes it’s hard for me to get loud in a scene, it’s a little

embarrassing for me but Kristen would help me by getting louder so I would too.”

For Kasdan, it was critical to find the right pairing of energy, looks and talent when it came to

casting the roles of Lucy and Paige.

“Kristen has her own special kind of charisma that’s more completely natural and directly

connected to adolescence. Being an actual teenage girl, she has an authentic kind of self-consciousness

that creates raw energy and power. She is somewhere between being a kid and being a young woman and

you can see her reconciling those two opposing forces in herself at every moment of her performance.

“Makenzie, on the other hand, is truly just a kid, not self-conscious at all, completely uninhibited. She has

a kind of light, a glow that is irrepressible.”

THE LOOK AND LOCATION

Production Designer Sandy Cochrane and Costume Designer Trish Keating were brought on as

key collaborators for ensuring Kasdan’s vision was translated onto the screen.

The two key sets in the movie, the Hardwicke house and Grandma’s house, were brought to life

by Cochrane. After an exhaustive search that took the filmmaker scouting various cities across Canada,

the city of Victoria, located on Vancouver Island, had all the elements that Kasdan was looking for.

“Jon wanted a slightly heightened reality and we spent a lot of time talking about that when we

were driving around looking for locations,” says Cochrane. “The story starts off in Los Angeles then

shifts to Michigan, so when you arrive in the suburbs of the mid-west, there’s an overwhelming sense of

green as opposed to the overexposed, sun-parched landscape of Los Angeles.”

“Both Jon and I are from Southern California, which doesn’t have the most traditional suburbs,’

Brody says, “To us and to Carter, the suburbs are this pristine place you've seen in movies - football

games, prom - sort of John Hughes meets Norman Rockwell. Jon’s got a great crew and they’ve found

and transformed our location into this ideal suburb. My character’s curiosity of wanting to explore this

other side of the world, in a way, is satisfied when he runs away to Michigan, in search of something he’s

seen in movies.”

“The pairing of the houses was the most critical element to finding the locations we wanted. For

Grandma’s house, we needed to find a house where the owners would allow us to take their beautifully

kept home and make it a visually distressed residence. Then we needed to find a house directly across the

street, where there couldn’t be any impediment view-wise, which had to have a certain kind of

architecture that presented a completely different aesthetic.”

Once the houses were found, movie magic stepped in and both houses were transformed. The

entrance to Grandma’s house was dressed with overgrown shrubs and weeds to give it the appearance of a

dark burrowing world. The interior of the house was completely redone to reveal a home that had been

neglected, where newspapers and mementos cluttered every inch of space. Across the street where the

Hardwicke House stood, immaculate green lawns and an abundance of carefully groomed flower beds

presented the opposite impression . a family that was very concerned about outward appearances.

The rest of the locations needed; a mall, ice cream shop, a hospital among others, posed no

problem and Victoria easily doubled for the Michigan suburbs. For the Los Angeles portion of the shoot,

Kasdan already had real landmarks in mind that he wanted to shoot at such as the 101 Coffee Shop and

the Santa Monica Pier.

Cochrane explains that Kasdan’s clear vision of what he wanted, meant “asking the right

questions, listening very carefully and taking every opportunity to bounce ideas off him. Jon has a vast

knowledge of film, he has a long list of films that he can reference so that you can go back, look at these

films and know exactly what he’s going for.”

But besides providing the physical locations needed for In the Land of Women’s intimate world,

the Uplands neighborhood where the Hardwicke House and Grandma’s House were located, also became

much more of a home away from home than anyone had expected. An experience not lost on Meg Ryan.

“I loved shooting in Victoria and this neighborhood was just crazy! I couldn’t have made it up!”

the actor remembers. “They were so cool to let us into their neighborhood night after night, day after day.

They would walk their dogs and wave to me, then they started baking things and bringing them by the

trailer . I got chai tea from someone’s grandma. It was the biggest, open-armed hug all the time. Adam

would leave his dog at one the neighbor’s house who left the door open so that when we stopped shooting

around 3am, Adam would just go inside and call ‘Penny, Penny’ and Penny would come out – their dogs

would hang together. It was just so sweet!”

Producer David Kanter adds, “The neighborhood of Uplands was incredibly accommodating to

our shooting and it took some leading people in the neighborhood to get everybody to allow us to come in

and disrupt their lives for five weeks. These neighbors became part of our crew and every night people

would come out at cocktail hour with their glasses of white wine and watch us shoot, which sometimes is

like watching paint dry. We met some incredible people on this film and we’re so grateful.”

In the Land of Women is a character-driven story and Kasdan wanted the wardrobe to enhance

and reflect the reality of each character. “Jon had done a lot of tear sheets himself from magazines,” says

Keating. “He had a very clear idea of what each character’s wardrobe should be.how it ties into and

tracks the progression of the character.”

With Sarah’s wardrobe, the objective was to capture the character’s shift from a very contained

and repressed person to a woman that begins to reconnect to her sensuality and becomes more

emotionally available.

“Sarah plays the part of a very frustrated, upper-middle class wife and mother,” observes Keating.

“As she meets Carter, a certain awareness comes to her about life and she loosens up considerably, which

we reflect in her clothing. We'll see a change from cooler colors at the beginning, to warmer colors

toward the end, as well as more casual styles.”

As for Carter’s character, both Kasdan’s and Brody’s love of true vintage clothing, was utilized to

express this young man’s physical as well emotional journey to Michigan.

“We wanted to get as far away from what he wears on the O.C. as possible,” says Keating. “We

also wanted to take Adam to an older level of clothing, so that he would be playing twenty-five, which is

his real age.”

For Grandma Archer, the process of inhabiting that character was a little more involved and

carefully constructed. “I like to have a lot of input in the costumes and had really good conversations with

Trish Keating, The first thing I asked for was a hump,” laughs Dukakis. “So they built me a little hump,

then I asked for all the sleeves to be a shorter so that my little bony arms would stick out. I wore these

droopy bright colored crocheted sweaters. I didn’t want her to be drab.”

Transforming the vivacious actress to that of a much older octogenarian also involved over two

hours of make-up every morning. Dukakis found the experience rewarding as an actor but also a little

unnerving on a personal level, as she explains. “We put latex on my face to create deep wrinkles and I

also put a wig on. People say that if you want to know what you’ll look like when you’re old, look at your

mother. After this show, I know exactly what I’m going to look like and it’s going to be much worse. It

was a really interesting journey.”

Rounding out the talents Kasdan enlisted to make In the Land of Women is editor Carol Littleton.

Even at a young age, Littleton says Kasdan’s curiosity and talent as an aspiring filmmaker were self-

evident

“I’ve known Jon since the day he was born. Ever since he was a little kid, Jon was very tuned in,

very smart and very funny. He used to hang out in the cutting room and always have the most

extraordinary questions about the process. When he came into the editing room, I’d give him a piece of

film to experiment with and after a while he’d suggest cutting a scene in a certain way so I’d stop what I

was doing, and do it his way so he could see why something would work or not work.

“The biggest challenge in this film is the mixture of tone. It’s definitely a comedy but there is a

serious undertone to the whole movie . a basic humanity we must preserve. It’s this constant changing

of gears that is challenging but inspiring for an editor. I’m so impressed by Jon’s talent . the writing is

extraordinary and he knows exactly what he wants, that’s very rare, yet alone with someone so young.

He’s a very committed and serious filmmaker.”

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ABOUT THE CAST

ADAM BRODY (Carter Webb), A dynamic young actor, Adam Brody has crafted a distinguished career

in film and television and is quickly becoming one of the finest newcomers to hit the big screen.

Brody will soon be seen in Warner Bros. romantic comedy In the Land of Women, starring

opposite Meg Ryan. Directed by Jonathan Kasdan, the film focuses on a young television writer whose

world is in complete disorder after his break-up with his girlfriend. As he struggles to reconcile his own

inner conflicts, he is drawn into the pains and loves of the women of a neighborhood family -- all of

whom, in their way, fall in love with him, and all of whom, in their own way, help him find his way back.

In addition, Adam will appear in two highly anticipated independent feature films-- Smiley Face and The

Ten. Smiley Face follows a young actress’ misadventures after she unknowingly eats her roommate's pot

brownies. The Ten, directed by David Wain, focuses on ten stories, each inspired by one of the ten

commandments. Both films premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.

Brody recently appeared in Thank you for Smoking, a satirical comedy that follows the

machinations of Big Tobacco's chief spokesman, Nick Naylor, who spins on behalf of cigarettes while

trying to remain a role model for his twelve-year-old son. Prior to that, Brody was seen opposite Brad

Pitt and Angelina Jolie in the box office success Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Additional film credits include

Warners Bros.’Grind, the hit 2002 thriller The Ring, and Missing Brendan with Ed Asner and Illeana

Douglas.

Brody is seen weekly as Seth Cohen on Fox’s celebrated television series “The O.C.” The

ensemble drama revolves around the young adult community of the Orange County area. Additional

television credits include a recurring role as Coop in “Once and Again,” a recurring role as Dave in the

WB’s Emmy-nominated “Gilmore Girls” and standout guest-starring roles in “Judging Amy,” “Family

Law” and Smallville.”

MEG RYAN (Sarah Hardwicke) exhibits her versatility and natural charm in every role she plays. She

will stars in Jonathan Kasdan’s directorial debut In the Land of Women opposite Adam Brody.

Meg has three projects currently in production; an HBO mini-series, The Best Awful, in which

Meg also co-produces, is an adaptation of the Carrie Fisher novel recounting the further adventures of the

heroine from Fisher’s best-selling novel Postcards From The Edge; A remake of George Cukor's 1939

film The Women, with Anne Hathaway and Candice Bergen; and will next start filming The Deal with costar

William H. Macy. Ryan recently completed filming Homeland Security with Antonio Banderas.

Ryan was last seen in the hit film Against the Ropes, inspired by the true story of Jackie Kallen,

the most successful female manager in boxing history. Previously, she starred in Jane Campion’s In The

Cut, a psychological thriller, opposite Mark Ruffalo. The film premiered at The Toronto Film Festival in

2003 and opened the London Film Festival of that same year.

Ryan starred in the 2001 Miramax romantic comedy Kate And Leopold, opposite Hugh Jackman.

Her other recent work includes the Castle Rock thriller Proof of Life and Diane Keaton’s comedy

Hanging Up, in which she starred opposite Keaton, Lisa Kudrow and Walter Matthau. She also starred in

Nora Ephron’s romance You’ve Got Mail, opposite Tom Hanks, which garnered her a third Golden Globe

nomination, and Anthony Drazan’s searing independent film version of Hurly Burly, with Sean Penn,

Chazz Palminteri, Gary Shandling, Kevin Spacey and Robin WrightPenn.

Ryan’s comedic appeal was widely recognized in her first Golden Globe-nominated performance

as Sally Allbright in When Harry Met Sally, directed by Rob Reiner and written by Nora Ephron. She

went on to star in Nora Ephron’s hit romantic comedy Sleepless In Seattle, opposite Tom Hanks,

garnering a second Golden Globe nomination.

Acclaim has also come to Ryan for her distinctive dramatic portraits, including her role opposite

Denzel Washington as the first military woman nominated for a Medal of Honor in Courage Under Fire,

directed by Ed Zwick, and her moving portrayal of a wonderful woman with a drinking problem in Luis

Mandoki’s When A Man Loves A Woman, opposite Andy Garcia. For her performance opposite Kiefer

Sutherland in the Sundance Institute’s Promised Land, she earned an Independent Spirit Award

nomination. Ryan has also starred opposite Nicolas Cage in City of Angels, with Matthew Broderick in

Addicted to Love and with Kevin Kline in French Kiss.

Her additional film credits include I.Q., Anastasia, Innerspace, D.O.A., The Presidio, Joe Versus

The Volcano, The Doors, Prelude to a Kiss, Flesh And Bone, and Restoration. A Fairfield, Connecticut

native, Ryan embarked on her acting career after studying journalism at New York University. She made

her motion picture debut as Candice Bergen’s daughter in Rich and Famous, and attracted the attention of

moviegoers and critics in her 1986 performance as a fighter pilot’s wife in Top Gun.

KRISTEN STEWART (Lucy Hardwicke) was introduced to worldwide audiences with her outstanding

performance alongside Jodie Foster in Panic Room.

Stewart is currently starring in Screen Gems “The Messengers” directed by The Pang Brothers.

She will next star this April in the Castle Rock Entertainment/Warner Bros film In the Land of Women,

alongside Meg Ryan and Adam Brody for writer/director Jonathan Kasden. In September she will be

seen in Paramount Vantage’s “Into The Wild” for director Sean Penn. Additionally, she will star in the

independent film “The Cake Eaters” for director Mary Stuart Masterson.

Currently Stewart is in production on the independent film “The Yellow Handkerchief” alongside

William Hurt and Maria Bello and will soon begin filming “What Just Happened” alongside Robert De

Niro and Sean Penn for director Barry Levinson.

Stewart’s additional film credits include “Zathura,” “Speak,” “Fierce People,” “Catch That Kid,”

“Undertow,” “Cold Creek Manor,” and “The Safety of Objects.”

Stewart resides in Los Angeles.

OLYMPIA DUKAKIS (Grandma Archer), during a career that spans over 40 years, has worked as an

actress, director, producer, teacher, activist and most recently, author with her best-selling memoir Ask

Me Again Tomorrow. She received an Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actress category, the

New York Film Critics Award, the Los Angeles Film Critics Award and the Golden Globe Award for her

work in the Norman Jewison film “Moonstruck”.

Dukakis’ distinguished stage career includes two OBIE Awards, for Bertolt Brecht's A MAN'S A

MAN, and Christopher Durang's “The Marriage of Bette and Boo,” at Joseph Papp's Public Theatre.

Other notable appearances at the Public include Sam Shepard's “Curse of the Starving Class,” “Titus

Andronicus,” “Electra,” and “Peer Gynt.” Dukakis starred in the world premiere of Timberlake

Wertenbaker’s “Credible Witness” at London’s Royal Court Theatre. Dukakis made her London debut in

1999 on stage at the Royal National Theatre in Martin Sherman’s one-woman play, “Rose,” to rave

reviews. Dukakis then opened “Rose” on Broadway in the spring of 2000. She also made her debut on

British television (BBC) in a made-for-TV movie “A Life for a Life” (BAFTA nomination) and on BBC

Radio starring in “Hecuba.”

Prior to “Rose”, Dukakis was last seen on Broadway in “Social Security” directed by Mike

Nichols. In 2004, Dukakis starred as Clytemnestra in NY’s Aquila Theatre Company’s production of

“Agamemnon,” featuring Dukakis’ husband Louis Zorich in the title role. She also performed at A.C.T.

in “The Mother” by Gorky adapted by Constance Congdon.

Very involved in the development of new work and companies, Dukakis is currently

collaborating on adaptations of The Tempest and Phaedra (A.C.T.) Other new work includes the

adaptation of Hecuba by Timberlake Wertenbaker at A.C.T., Singer’s Boy by Leslie Ayvazian at A.C.T.,

Shakespeare and Company’s “Lear and Her Daughters,” and “Voices of Earth.”

As a founding member and Producing Artistic Director of the Whole Theatre in Montclair, New

Jersey for 19 years (1971-1990), she directed and appeared in many productions, winning accolades time

and again. In 1992, Olympia Dukakis became the proud recipient of the New Jersey Governor's Walt

Whitman Creative Arts Award.

Dukakis has appeared in over 125 productions Off-Broadway and regionally, at venues including

Studio Arena in Albany, American Place Theatre, APA Phoenix, Circle Rep and the Williamstown

Summer Theatre Festival where she also served as Associate Director. Dukakis taught Acting in the

graduate school at New York University for fifteen years and currently teaches master classes at various

universities and colleges throughout the country.

Feature films to be released in 2005 include Three Needles, (shot in S. Africa) The Librarian and

The Thing About My Folks, with Paul Reiser. Recent films include the highly acclaimed The Event and

The Intended (shot in Malaysia and directed by Kristian Levring).

Other feature films include Mr. Holland’s Opus with Richard Dreyfus, Woody Allen’s Mighty

Aprodite and I Love Trouble with Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts. Audiences continue to seek out videos of

The Cemetary Club, Steel Magnolias directed by Herbert Ross, Dad co-starring Jack Lemmon, and Look

Who’s Talking with John Travolta and Kirstie Alley.

With regards to television, most recent credits include the CBS sitcom “Center of the Universe”

with John Goodman, Jean Smart, and Ed Asner.

Dukakis co-starred in “Last of the Blond Bombshells” with Judy Dench for HBO and in “Ladies

and the Champ” with Marion Ross for ABC. One of her favorite projects, “Tales of the City”, a 6-hour

mini-series based on the novel by Armistead Maupin, was a controversial ratings blockbuster for PBS.

She went on to star in the sequels “More Tales of the City” and “Further Tales of the City” (Showtime)

for which she earned Emmy, Screen Actors Guild and BAFTA nominations.

She starred with Frank Sinatra and Dukakis' real-life husband Louis Zorich in “Young At Heart”

on CBS (Emmy nomination). Other TV movie projects include “Strange Relations,” “Scattering Dad,”

“A Century of Women,” a 6-hour mini-series for TBS, “Fire In The Dark” for CBS, “Lucky Day” costarring

Amy Madigan for ABC for which she received an Emmy nomination, “The Last Act Is A Solo”

for which she received an ACE Award, and “Sinatra” a mini-series for CBS in which Dukakis portrayed

Frank Sinatra's mother and was nominated for an Emmy.

MAKENZIE VEGA (Paige Hardwicke) has already become one of Hollywood’s youngest stars at just

eleven years old. She captured our hearts as Nicolas Cage’s daughter in Universal Pictures’ Family Man

at the young age of 5. At such a young age, Vega enjoys an impressive list of feature film credits

including Made, starring Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau and S.A.W., with Danny Glover. She went on to

give a captivating and heart-felt performance portraying the younger character of ‘Nancy’ (Jessica Alba)

in Robert Rodriguez’s provocative action/crime thriller Sin City. Vega will next be seen starring

alongside Lindsay Lohan and Chris Pine in Just My Luck for New Regency. Vega has also appeared as a

series regular in the ABC sitcom “The Geena Davis Show”.

DUSTIN MILLIGAN (Eric Watts) Dustin Milligan was born and spent much of his early life in the

small northern town of Yellowknife, in the North West Territories which lie in the far north of Canada.

Being a natural ham led him to the drama program in his high school where he discovered his true love of

acting and his desire to become a professional actor. As soon as he graduated he packed up his life and

moved to Vancouver to pursue his dream. Since then he has not looked back.

Dustin has four films being released in 2007; "In The Land of Women" with Meg Ryan and

Adam Brody for Warner Bros., "The Messengers" directed by the Pang Bros for Columbia Pictures , "The

Butterfly Wheel" with Pierce Bronson for Icon Entertainment as well as the sequel "The Butterfly Effect

II" for New Line Cinema.

When not acting Dustin can usually be found on his skateboard or on the slopes with his sister

Molly who is a professional snowboarder.

CLARK GREGG’S (Nelson Hardwicke) film work includes Paul Weitz’s In Good Company, Spartan

and State and Main for David Mamet, Nicole Holofcener’s Lovely and Amazing, The Human Stain, We

Were Soldiers, One Hour Photo, Magnolia and the role of Hank/Henrietta in Tod Williams’ The

Adventures of Sebastian Cole for which he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination. Currently

he is filming When a Stranger Calls, directed by Simon West. He soon begins filming Wil Shriner’s

Hoot.

Television acting work includes the recurring role of Agent Michael Casper on “The West

Wing,” HBO movies “Tyson” and “Live From Baghdad,” as well as guest roles on “The Shield, ” “Will

and Grace,” “Sports Night,” “Sex and the City,” and many others. He currently stars with Julia Louis

Dreyfus in the CBS comedy “The New Adventures of Old Christine.”

New York stage credits include the premieres of Jez Butterworth’s plays “Mojo” and “The Night

Heron,” “Boys’ Life” (Drama Desk nomination), Aaron Sorkin’s “A Few Good Men” on Broadway, as

well as new works by John Guare, Craig Lucas, A. R. Gurney, and many others.

A founding member and former artistic director of the Atlantic Theater Company in New York,

whose members include David Mamet, William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman. He directed the New

York and Los Angeles premieres of Kevin Heelan’s “Distant Fires.” The New York production was

nominated for Drama Desk, Obie and Outer Critics Circle awards and moved to the Circle-in-the-Square

downtown. The Los Angeles production starring Samuel L. Jackson won three L.A. Weekly awards

including Best Direction, Best Ensemble and Best Play and was nominated for four Ovation Awards

including Best Director. He directed the critically acclaimed 1998 New York revival of David Mamet’s

“Edmond,” and created, co-wrote and directed the Los Angeles serialized play, “The Big Empty.”

His screenwriting debut, What Lies Beneath for Dreamworks starred Harrison Ford and Michelle

Pfeiffer and was directed by Robert Zemeckis. It is presently ranked 121 on the list of highest grossing

movies of all time. He is writing a movie about the last days of Pompeii for director Fernando Meirelles

(City of God) and producer Barry Mendel (Rushmore) at Universal. In the spring of 2006 he is scheduled

to make his feature directing debut with his own adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s (Fight Club) book,

Choke. Clark has also written or re-written scripts for Disney, Universal, Paramount, Fox and Fox 2000.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS

JONATHAN KASDAN (Director / Screenplay) grew up in Los Angeles, California. Jonathan’s previous

writing credits include the television series “Dawson’s Creek” and “Freaks & Geeks.” In the Land of

Women marks his directorial debut.

STEVE GOLIN (Producer) is the founder and CEO of Anonymous Content, a multimedia development,

production and talent/management company based in Culver City, California, and an award-winning

producer of three dozen film and television projects distinguished by an original and often quirky

sensibility.

Golin produced one of the AFI’s Top 10 Films of 2004 and Golden Globe Best Picture nominee

“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” starring Best Actor nominee Jim Carrey, Best Actress nominee

Kate Winslet, Best Screenplay nominee Charlie Kaufman (“Being John Malkovich”) and directed by

Michel Gondry (“Human Nature”).

Currently, Golin is developing the screen adaptation of Ted Heller’s novel “Slabrat” at United

Artists and the adaptation of William Gibson’s novel “Pattern Recognition” at Warner Bros., with Peter

Weir (“Master and Commander”) attached to direct. Golin recently produced the box office hit “50 First

Dates,” starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, written by Anonymous client George Wing, which

earned more than $180 million worldwide. He executive produced “Searching for the Wrong Eyed

Jesus,” a documentary by Anonymous director Andrew Douglas which was in competition at the 2004

Tribeca Film Festival.

In the realm of television Golin recently served as executive producer of the ABC Family telefilm

“Celeste in the City” and currently serves as executive producer of Showtime’s new hit series “The L-

Word,” the fasted renewed series in the network’s history.

Since the founding of Anonymous Content, Golin has produced the critically acclaimed “Being

John Malkovich,” starring John Malkovich, John Cusack and Cameron Diaz (multiple Oscar, Golden

Globe, SAG and DGA nominations, Grand Prize winner at the 1999 Deauville Film Festival, Independent

Spirit Awards winner for Best New Film); “Nurse Betty,” starring Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock and

Oscar winner Renée Zellweger (Best Screenplay winner at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival); and “Bounce”

starring Ben Affleck and Gwyneth Paltrow.

During his tenure as founder and co-chairman of Propaganda Films, Golin produced David

Fincher’s “The Game,” starring Michael Douglas and Sean Penn; Barry Levinson’s “Sleepers,” starring

Brad Pitt, Robert DeNiro and Billy Crudup; Jane Campion’s “Portrait of a Lady,” starring Nicole Kidman

and John Malkovich (nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress – Barbara

Hershey); David Lynch’s “Wild at Heart,” starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern (winner of the Palme

d’Or at Cannes 1990 and Oscar-nominated for Best Supporting Actress – Diane Ladd); John Dahl’s “Red

Rock West,” starring Nicolas Cage and Lara Flynn Boyle (nominated for Best Director and Best

Screenplay, 1995 Spirit Awards); Dom Sena’s “Kalifornia,” starring Brad Pitt and David Duchovny; and

Madonna’s provocative “Truth or Dare.” He also produced such telefilms, special and series as “Beverly

Hills, 90210,” David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks,” “Heat Wave” (winner of four Cable ACE Awards including

Best Movie and an Emmy for Best Supporting Actor – James Earl Jones), “Tales of the City” (Peabody

winner) and the Showtime series “Fallen Angels,” with episodes directed by Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise,

Steven Soderbergh and Phil Joanou, among others.

Under Golin’s management, Anonymous Content currently represents the following roster of

prominent and rising directors for commercial and music video representation: David Fincher, Guy

Ritchie, David Kellogg, Gore Verbinski, Mark Romanek, Andrew Douglas, Malcolm Venville, Robert

Logevall and many others for commercials and music videos. Its talent management division includes

such acting clients as Academy Award nominee Patricia Clarkson, Tony Goldwyn, Omar Epps, Tom

Everett Scott, Maura Tierney, Shane West, Ever Carradine, Orlando Jones, Ron Rifkin, Gabrielle Union

and Peter Gallagher, as well as Academy Award-winning writer Stephen Gaghan and Pulitzer Prizewinning

writer Donald Margulies.

Prior to Anonymous, Golin co-founded Propaganda Films in 1986, which set a new creative

standard for music videos and commercial production with its revolutionary style and sophistication.

Golin built Propaganda into the largest music video and commercial production company in the world,

and Propaganda has won more MTV Video and Cannes Palmes d’Or awards (for commercial excellence)

in those mediums than any other company. Under the direction of Golin, Propaganda’s music video

division earned a stellar reputation through its work with such diverse artists as Michael Jackson,

Madonna, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, George Michael, The Beastie Boys and The Red Hot Chili

Peppers. Propaganda’s commercial division produced award-winning spots for such leading advertisers

as AT&T, IBM, Nike,

Apple, McDonald’s and Budweiser. While at Propaganda, Golin was involved in developing the careers

of some of Hollywood’s best directors, including David Fincher, Spike Jonze, Michael Bay, Alex Proyas,

Antoine Fuqua, Gore Verbinski, Alex Proyas, David Kellogg and Simon West.

Steve Golin attended New York University, graduated from the American Film Institute with an

MFA in producing, and is currently a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and

the Producers Guild of America.

DAVID KANTER (Producer) is a producer and manager at Anonymous Content, a multimedia

development, production and talent management company in Culver City, California.

Upcoming films that Kanter produced include the directorial debut of screenwriter Jon Kasdan,

“In the Land of Women,” a co-production with Castle Rock and Warner Bros. Independent starring Meg

Ryan and Adam Brody, scheduled for a Spring 2007 release; the controversial Tony Kaye documentary

“Lake of Fire” that premiered at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival that ThinkFilm is releasing;

New Line Cinema’s “Rendition,” directed by Gavin Hood and starring Reese Witherspoon, Jake

Gyllenhaal, Meryl Streep and Alan Arkin; Universal Pictures’ “Dead I May Well Be,” directed by John

Lee Hancock; and “Across the Medicine Line,” a co-production with National Geographic Films about

the relationship between the legendary Sioux Chief Sitting Bull and his Saskatchewan protector, James

Walsh. Other films that Kanter has in development include “Chronically Metropolitan,” “Jeremy Orm is

a Pervert,” “One Night in Bangkok” and “Something Old, Something New.” TV credits for Kanter

include “To Love and Die in L.A.” which debuts in June for USA Network, which he executive produced,

and “Law & Order: Crime & Punishment,” a series documentary for NBC that he co-created and

executive produced.

As a manager, Kanter has built an impressive client roster including Patrick Sheane Duncan

(writer, “Courage Under Fire,” “Mr. Holland’s Opus”), Chad Lowe (director/producer, “Beautiful Ohio,”

“Chronically Metropolitan”), Barry Blaustein (director, “The Ringer,” writer, “The Nutty Professor,”

“Boomerang”), Donald Margulies (Pulitzer Prize winning-author of “Dinner with Friends”, “Sight

Unseen” and the upcoming “Keith Moon” with Mike Meyers), Edward Neumeier (writer, “Robocop,”

“Starship Troopers”), Emmy-winner Larry Ramin (“The Gathering Storm,” Universal’s “The

Ambassador”), Stephen Metcalfe (writer, “Beautiful Joe,” “Roommates,” “Jacknife”) and Lesli Linka

Glatter (director/producer, “The Proposition,” “Now and Then,” “The Gilmore Girls”).

LAWRENCE KASDAN (Executive Producer) has directed ten films: “Body Heat,” “The Big Chill,”

“Silverado,” “The Accidental Tourist,” “I Love You To Death,” “Grand Canyon,” “Wyatt Earp,” “French

Kiss,” “Mumford” and “Dreamcatcher”. He has written or co-written all of these pictures except John

Kostmayer’s “I Love You To Death” and Adam Brook’s “French Kiss”.

In addition, Kasdan has written or co-written four of the most successful films in motion picture

history. “Raiders Of The Lost Ark,” “The Empire Strikes Back,” “Return Of The Jedi” and “The

Bodyguard”.

Born in Miami Beach, Florida and raised in West Virginia, Kasdan grew up in a family in which

writing was encouraged. He attended the University of Michigan, helped financially by winning the

Hopwood Award in Creative Writing four times. He then went on to earn a master’s degree in education.

For the next five years, Kasdan worked as an advertising copywriter in Detroit (three years at

W.B. Doner) and Los Angeles while trying to sell his screenplays. The sixth screenplay he submitted,

“The Bodyguard,” was the first to be purchased in 1977.

His next screenplay, “Continental Divide,” caught the attention of Steven Spielberg, who

introduced the writer to George Lucas. Spielberg and Lucas asked Kasdan to write the screenplay for

“Raiders Of The Lost Ark”. When screenwriter Leigh Brackett died before finishing the script to the Star

Wars sequel “The Empire Strikes Back,” Kasdan was asked to take over as writer. He went on to co-write

“Return Of The Jedi” with Lucas.

Kasdan made his critically acclaimed directorial debut with “Body Heat,” in which he cast two

little-known actors, William Hurt and Kathleen Turner, in the lead roles. Next, he directed “The Big

Chill,” which he co-wrote with Barbara Benedek and which was nominated for three Academy Awards,

including Best Picture. His next effort was the sprawling western “Silverado,” which he directed,

produced and co-wrote with his brother Mark.

Kasdan next directed “The Accidental Tourist,” based on the novel by Anne Tyler and adapted by

Kasdan and Frank Galati. The film was named Best Picture of 1988 by the New York Film Critics,

received four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, and earned Geena Davis a Best

Supporting Actress award.

1990’s “I Love You To Death,” starring Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman, Joan Plowright, River

Phoenix, Keanu Reeves and William Hurt and written by John Kostmayer, was the first script that Kasdan

directed that he did not write.

The script for “Grand Canyon,” co-written with his wife Meg Kasdan, earned them Academy

Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Original Screenplay. The film, which stars Danny Glover,

Steve Martin, Kevin Kline, Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodward and Mary-Louise Parker, received the

Golden Bear Award for Best Picture at the 1992 Berlin Film Festival.

In 1992, Kasdan’s seventeen-year-old script for “The Bodyguard” was filmed, starring Kevin

Costner and Whitney Houston under the direction of Mick Jackson. Kasdan, Jim Wilson and Kevin

Costner produced the movie, which went on to gross $400 million in theatres worldwide.

Kasdan produced the 1987 comedy “Cross My Heart,” directed by Armyan Bernstein, and in

1989 executive produced “Immediate Family,” written by Barbara Benedek and directed by Jonathan

Kaplan. In 1998 he produced “Home Fries” with Mark Johnson, Barry Levinson and Charles Newirth,

starring Drew Barrymore.

In 1994, Kasdan directed the Warner Bros. release of “Wyatt Earp,” the epic story of the Earps of

Tombstone, starring Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid and Gene Hackman. In 1995, Kasdan took a

completely different turn and directed “French Kiss,” a romantic comedy written by Adam Brooks which

starts Meg Ryan as a hapless American lost in France and Kevin Kline as the suspicious Frenchman who

befriends her.

Kasdan made his theatrical stage debut in the fall of 1995 as director of John Patrick Shanley’s

“Four Dogs & a Bone”. This dark comedy, an ironic look at the seamier side of Hollywood, starred

Elizabeth Perkins, Martin Short, Brendan Fraser and Parker Posey, and was the inaugural play of the

newly renovated and renamed Geffen Playhouse.

“Mumford,” a comedy that Kasdan wrote and directed, and produced with Charles Okun, was a

fall 1999 release of Touchstone Pictures. At the San Sebastian Film Festival it won the award for Best

Screenplay given by the Circle of Cinema Writers.

Kasdan most recently directed “Dreamcatcher,” based on the novel by Stephen King, for Castle

Rock Entertainment and Warner Bros. Adapted for the screen by William Goldman and Lawrence

Kasdan, the film was produced by Kasdan with Charles Okun. It was released in March 2003.

BARBARA KELLY (Co-Producer / Production Manager) has worked on a variety of projects since she

began her career in film and television production. Kelly’s co-producer film credits include the recently

completed “MEM-O-RE” starring Billy Zane, Ann Margret and Dennis Hopper, “They” for Radar

Pictures/Miramax Pictures and “A Pyromaniac’s Love Story” directed by Joshua Brand.

As Production Manager, some of her feature film credits include the blockbuster

“I Robot,” (20th Century Fox) “Ballistics/ Ecks vs Sever,” (Franchise Pictures/Warner Bros) “40 Days &

40 Nights,” (Working Title/Miramax Films) “Speaking Of Sex,” (Omnibus/Canal Plus) “This Is My

Life” (20th Century Fox) and “Sea Of Love” (Universal) directed by Harold Becker.

A few of her television producing credits include the Columbia/Tri-Star crime drama series

“Secret Agent Man;” the mini-series “Atomic Train;” MOWs credits are “Different,” “Oklahoma City

Bombing,” “Circle of Deceit,” “Jitters,” “Second Chances” and “Little Criminals”.

Kelly is a Political Science graduate of Carleton University, as well as holding a BA in

Anthropology and ARTC/Teaching Certificate from the Royal Conservatory of Music.

PAUL CAMERON’s (Director of Photography) career has exploded in the past several years to include

work on some of the most acclaimed action thrillers to come out of Hollywood.

Having worked on films including “Collateral,” “Man on Fire” and “Swordfish,” Cameron’s

inventive visual style has been hailed by critics everywhere. His cinematography on “Collateral” received

dozens of nominations for awards, culminating with the 2004 Los Angeles Critics Award for Best

Cinematography.

In 2003, his masterful lensing caught the eye of the Clio Awards for his brilliant photography on

the BMW featurette “Beat the Devil,” for which he took top cinematography honors.

Cameron has worked with some of the finest director’s in the industry, perfecting his style on

projects helmed by Tony Scott, Michael Mann and Dominic Sena.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Cameron was exposed early on to theater and film by his older brother

before enrolling at State University of New York’s Purchase College to study filmmaking. Joining the

film union Nabet 15 while still in college, Cameron religiously attended the NY Film Festival and became

enamored with international cinema.

Making a name early on in music videos and commercials, Cameron credits his early work

experience with helping to develop the distinctive style he brings to features.

CAROL LITTLETON (Editor) A.C.E. is one of Hollywood’s most talented and successful film editors.

Her editing career spans 30 years, with more than 30 feature films to her credit. Ms. Littleton began a

close collaboration with writer-director Lawrence Kasdan in 1981 with his directorial debut, “Body

Heat”. She continued her collaboration with Kasdan on eight more films, including “The Big Chill,”

“Silverado” and “Grand Canyon”. Ms. Littleton has also collaborated with director Jonathan Demme on

four films, including his latest, “The Manchurian Candidate”.

Littleton received an Academy Award nomination in 1982 for Steven Spielberg’s “E.T.: The

Extraterrestial”. Other films she has edited include “Places In The Heart,” “Tuesdays With Morrie”

(Emmy Award for editing) and the restoration of Erich Von Stoheim’s 1926 classic, “Greed”. In 1994,

she edited “China Moon,” the directorial debut of her husband, noted cinematographer John Bailey,

A.S.C.

A native of Miami, Oklahoma, Ms. Littleton graduated with honors from the University of

Oklahoma. As a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Paris, Ms. Littleton completed her master’s thesis

and was awarded her MA in French from the University of Oklahoma in 1969. The University of

Oklahoma, College of Arts and Sciences again honored Ms. Littleton 30 years later with the

Distinguished Alumnae Award.

In 1987, Littleton was elected President of the Editors Guild and served two terms, only the

second woman to hold that office. In the mid-90’s she and John Bailey were elected to the Board of

Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—the first time a married couple had

served together since Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. Littleton and Bailey reside in Hollywood

and in New York City.

SANDY COCHRANE (Production Designer) trained and worked in theatre for 15 years before arriving

in Vancouver in the early 80’s where he soon discovered a growing film industry. Twenty years later,

Cochrane has had the pleasure of art directing and designing over 25 film and television projects. Feature

film credits as Art Director include “Paycheck,” “The Santa Clause 2,” “Along Came A Spider,” “I’ll Be

Home For Christmas,” “Wrongfully Accused,” “Hideaway,” “Look Who’s Talking Now,” “This Boy’s

Life,” and “Leaving Normal.” As Production Designer, some of his television projects are “Saving

Milly,” “Meltdown,” “Double Bill,” “Lady and The Champ,” “Personally Yours,” and “Miracle On The

17th Green.”

TRISH KEATING (Costume Designer) started off her career in Nova Scotia, Canada where she earned a

B.Sc. degree in clothing and textiles. After teaching school in Montreal for a few years, Keating headed

west to Vancouver where her career flourished as a costume designer for film and theatre.

Keating has worked on over 50 feature films and television projects. Feature film credits include

“Man About Town,” “Hope Springs,” “The Sixth Day,” “Spooky House,” “Disturbing Behaviour,”

“Carpool,” “Tales From The Crypt,” “Arctic Blue,” “Knight Moves,” “Run,” “The Accused,” “The

Boy Who Could Fly,” “The Thing,” “Never Cry Wolf” and “All Washed Up.”

STEPHEN TRASK (Composer) is the co-creator, composer/lyricist of the Off-Broadway Musical, multi

award winning, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, which developed into the feature film release by Fine Line

Features. His instrumental score for the movie was his feature film debut, and the film's soundtrack was

Stephen’s first commercial release as a record producer.

Immediately thereafter Stephen was tapped by director Alex Steyermark to score and produce

songs for Prey for Rock and Roll, starring Gina Gershon. For Prey Stephen assembled an all-star all-girl

rock band featuring Sara Lee (Gang of Four, Indigo Girls & B-52's), Sam Maloney (Hole, Motley Crue),

Cheri Lovedog, who wrote the screenplay and the songs, and rock legend Joan Jett.

Then Tom McCarthy called Stephen to score the award winning The Station Agent (Miramax),

followed by Paul Weitz’ Synergy aka In Good Company at Universal starring Scarlett Johannson and

Topher Grace,

Currently, Stephen is in development at National Artists with Barry Weisler with the stage

adaptation of The Blue Angel as composer/lyricist.

For Hedwig, Stephen received an Obie Award, the Outter Critics Circle Award for Outstanding

off-Broadway Musical, a 1998 New York Magazine Award, Drama Desk nominations for Outstanding

Music, Lyrics and New Musical, A Grammy nomination for Best Cast Album, two GLAMA Awards, and

Entertainment Weekly Best Soundtrack Award for 2001.

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WARNER BROS. PICTURES

and CASTLE ROCK ENTERTAINMENT Present

An ANONYMOUS CONTENT Production

“IN THE LAND OF WOMEN”

END CREDITS

Written and Directed by

JONATHAN KASDAN

Produced by

STEVE GOLIN

and DAVID KANTER

Executive Producer

LAWRENCE KASDAN

Director of Photography

PAUL CAMERON

Production Designer

SANDY COCHRANE

Edited by

CAROL LITTLETON, A.C.E.

ADAM BRODY

KRISTEN STEWART

and MEG RYAN

“IN THE LAND OF WOMEN”

OLYMPIA DUKAKIS

MAKENZIE VEGA

ELENA ANAYA

CLARK GREGG

JoBETH WILLIAMS

DUSTIN MILLIGAN

GINNIFER GOODWIN

Casting by

AMANDA MACKEY

CATHY SANDRICH GELFOND

WENDY WEIDMAN, SIG deMIGUEL

Costumes Designed by

TRISH KEATING

Original Score by

STEPHEN TRASK

Music Supervisors

MANISH RAVAL and TOM WOLF

Co-Producer

BARBARA KELLY

Unit Production Manager .............................................................. BARBARA KELLY

Production Manager ...................................................................... JULIA NEVILLE

First Assistant Director.................................................................. PAUL K. BARRY

Second Assistant Director ............................................................. PAUL BURGER

CAST

In Order of Appearance

Sofia Buñuel.................................................................................. ELENA ANAYA

Carter Webb .................................................................................. ADAM BRODY

Teenage Girls ................................................................................ KELSEY KEEL

DANIELLE SAVRE

GINA MANTEGNA

Avi Rosenberg............................................................................... ROBERT REINIS

Agnes Webb .................................................................................. JoBETH WILLIAMS

Paige Hardwicke............................................................................ MAKENZIE VEGA

Lucy Hardwicke ............................................................................ KRISTEN STEWART

Sarah Hardwicke ........................................................................... MEG RYAN

Phyllis............................................................................................ OLYMPIA DUKAKIS

Eric Watts...................................................................................... DUSTIN MILLIGAN

Gabe Foley .................................................................................... GRAHAM WARDLE

Tiffany........................................................................................... ELISE GATIEN

Tanya............................................................................................. CHRISTINE DANIELLE

Nelson Hardwicke ......................................................................... CLARK GREGG

Howard Portchnik.......................................................................... JEFF CUNNINGHAM

Party Girls...................................................................................... TAMARA LOVEGROVE

BRITTANY STARLING

Nelson's Assistant.......................................................................... ILYSE MIMOUN

Dr. Ida Rosen................................................................................. KARIN KONOVAL

Janey.............................................................................................. GINNIFER GOODWIN

Bozo .............................................................................................. ANGUS

Stunt Coordinators......................................................................... DEAN CHOE

DUANE DICKINSON

DAVE HOSPES

Stunts............................................................................................. JON KRALT

LAURA LEE CONNERY

Art Director ................................................................................... MARGOT READY

Assistant Art Director.................................................................... BRIAN CUNNINGHAM

Set Decorator................................................................................. LOUISE ROPER

Lead Dresser.................................................................................. STEVE KILLI

On Set Dresser............................................................................... CODY LARSON

"A" Camera Operator/Steadicam................................................... DAVID CRONE

"A" Camera First Assistant ........................................................... SEAN HARDING

"A" Camera Second Assistant ....................................................... TYLER WOESTE

"B" Camera Operator .................................................................... SCOTT MacDONALD

"B" Camera First Assistant............................................................ GEORGE MAJOROS

"B" Camera Second Assistant ....................................................... JEAN MARC SALDINI

Stills Photographers....................................................................... LIANE HENTSCHER

LOREY SEBASTIAN

Co-Editor....................................................................................... MARTIN LEVENSTEIN

First Assistant Editor ..................................................................... OFE YI

Assistant Editors............................................................................ JASON DALE

SUZY ORTEGA

Post Production Supervisor ........................................................... TRICIA MILES

Second Assistant Directors............................................................ JACKIE FROST

RUBY STILLWATER

Third Assistant Director ................................................................ JENNIFER ZIMMER

DGA Trainee ................................................................................. PHIL NEE NEE

Re-Recording Mixers .................................................................... STEVE PEDERSON

BRAD SHERMAN

Supervising Sound Editor.............................................................. JOEL SHRYACK

Sound Designer ............................................................................. ROBERT GRIEVE

Sound Mixer.................................................................................. DAVID HUSBY

Boom Operator.............................................................................. CHARLES O'SHEA

Cable.............................................................................................. COLIN ORCHARD

Video Assist Supervisor ................................................................ DAVE JOSHI

Script Supervisor ........................................................................... PORTIA BELMONT

Assistant Costume Designer.......................................................... GAIL BARRETT

Costume Supervisor ...................................................................... VAL HALVERSON

Costume Set Supervisor ................................................................ ELIZABETH NEEDHAM

Makeup Department Head............................................................. LISA LOVE

1st Assistant Makeup..................................................................... CJ WILLS

Prosthetics ..................................................................................... WILLIAM TEREZAKIS

Hair Department Head................................................................... PAULINE TREMBLAY

Makeup and Hairstylist for Ms. Ryan ........................................... NORIKO WATANABE

Makeup and Hairstylist for Ms. Dukakis ...................................... TOM BRUMBERGER

Assistant Hairstylist....................................................................... SHARON MARKELL

Hair Double ................................................................................... KRISTA BAILEY

Property Master ............................................................................. JIM LEBANC

Assistant Property Master ............................................................. DAVE ROSYCHUK

On Set Props.................................................................................. SHER EDMONDS

Chief Lighting Technician............................................................. STUART HAGGERTY

Assistant Chief Lighting Technician ............................................. SHAWN MILSTED

Generator Operator........................................................................ ROGER BAILEY

Key Grip........................................................................................ JOHN WESTERLAKEN

Best Boy Grips .............................................................................. TONY THORPE

GARETH FARFAN

Dolly Grips.................................................................................... CHRIS BANTING

BRYCE SHAW

Special Effects Coordinator........................................................... DAVID ALLINSON

Special Effects............................................................................... PIERRE PAUL

CHARBONEAU

Location Manager.......................................................................... DEBORAH BOSE

Assistant Location Managers ........................................................ DAVID TAMKIN

DANA HERRIOTT

Construction Coordinator .............................................................. LYALL HEIGHTON

Construction Foreman ................................................................... MITCHELL BAKER

Transportation Coordinator ........................................................... LAURIE MORRIS

Transportation Captain .................................................................. RANJ JAWANT

Transportation Co-Captain ............................................................ BRAD BOWE

Production Accountant .................................................................. DONALD H. WALKER

1st Assistant Accountant ............................................................... JANE MASON

Production Coordinator ................................................................. ANDREA BOORMAN

Assistant Production Coordinators................................................ DANNY McNAIR

CARL GRUELL

Consultant...................................................................................... MARK KASDAN

Assistant to Jonathan Kasdan ........................................................ JUSTIN MAGGIO

Assistant to Lawrence Kasdan....................................................... WILMA DAVIS

Assistant to Steve Golin ................................................................ ELYSE JERRY

Assistant to David Kanter.............................................................. MICHAEL A. KOSSART

Staff Assistants.............................................................................. JENNIFER MALLOY

VOLNEY McFARLIN III

SARAH HUGHES

TYLER BLISS

MICHELLE HARRIS

TAMMY NIELSEN

ASTRID STARKE

JEREMY LUNDSTROM

Staff Assistants (cont.) .................................................................. DEBBIE PALINKAS

KEVIN GUNS

SEBASTIAN BAUER

RANDALL BOL

Production Associates ................................................................... BRIANNE BENTZON

JENNIFER COUVELIER

(space)

Canadian Casting........................................................................... STUART AIKINS, C.S.A.

SEAN COSSEY, C.S.A.

(space)

Casting Assistants.......................................................................... FARRAH FOX-COLLIS (LA)

SAMANTHA FINKLER (NY)

ELISA BAYLEY (CANADA)

Extras Casting................................................................................ ANNIE KLEIN

Studio Teachers ............................................................................. PAT JACKSON

JAMES HERTZ

Unit Publicist................................................................................. JACKIE BISSLEY

International Sales Agent .............................................................. KATHY MORGAN

INTERNATIONAL

Sound Effects Editors.................................................................... AI LING LEE

KEITH BILDERBECK

Dialogue Editor ............................................................................. JEENA PHELPS

First Assistant Sound Editor.......................................................... NANCY TRACY

Foley Artists .................................................................................. ANDY MALCOLM

GORO KOYAMA

Foley Mixer ................................................................................... DON WHITE

ADR Mixers .................................................................................. THOMAS J. O'CONNELL

ERIC GOTTHELF

GREG STEELE

Supervising Music Editor.............................................................. CHUCK MARTIN

Music Editors ................................................................................ ROBB BOYD

TANYA HILL

TIM BOOT

Score Recorded and Mixed by ...................................................... TIM O'HEIR

First Aid/Craft Service .................................................................. NANCY KRESS

Catering ......................................................................................... BE CINEMA SCENES

Animal Coordinator....................................................................... PAUL JASPER

Titles.............................................................................................. ERIC FITZGERALD

Digital Intermediate and Opticals by............................................. TECHNICOLOR DIGITAL

INTERMEDIATES

Digital Film Colorist ..................................................................... TRENT JOHNSON

Soundtrack Album on Lakeshore Records

"Leisure Time"

Written and Performed by Mike Viola

Courtesy of Good Morning Monkey Records

"Spanish Stroll"

Written by Willy DeVille

Performed by Mink DeVille

Courtesy of Capitol Records

Under License from EMI Film & Television Music

"Hot Blooded"

Written by Lou Gramm and Mick Jones

Performed by Foreigner

Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp.

By Arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing

"Harness and Wheel"

Written by Bill Taylor, Ryan Richardson, Clarque Blomquist and Paul Finn

Performed by The Kingsbury Manx

Courtesy of Yep Roc Records

By Arrangement with Ocean Park Music Group

"Lester Hayes"

Written by Lateef Daumont and Xavier Mosley

Performed by Lateef & The Chief

Courtesy of Quannum Projects

By special arrangement with Bank Robber Music and Zync Music

"Hey You"

Written and Performed by Tommy Stinson

Courtesy of Sanctuary Records Group

"Do You Believe In Love"

Written by Robert John Lange

Performed by Huey Lewis and The News

Courtesy of Capitol Records

Under License from EMI Film & Television Music

"Better Never Than Late"

Written by Liam Corcoran, Derek Ellis, Andrew MacDonald and Alec O'Hanley

Performed by Two Hours Traffic

"Blending In"

Written by Mike Viola

Performed by Mike Viola and Bob Hoffnar

Courtesy of Good Morning Monkey Records

"Goods (All In Your Head)

"

Written by Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel

Performed by Mates of State

Courtesy of Polyvinyl Record Co.

"So Good To See You"

Written by Jerry Kalaf

Performed by The JK Jazz Ensemble

"Missing You"

Written by Jerry Kalaf

Performed by The JK Jazz Ensemble

"A Good Idea At The Time"

Written by Damian Kulash, Jr. and Timothy Nordwind

Performed by OK Go

Courtesy of Capitol Records

Under License from EMI Film & Television Music

"Publish My Love"

Written by Zach Rogue

Performed by Rogue Wave

Courtesy of Sub Pop Records

"Wanna Get Dead"

Written by Jeffrey Christian Whalen

Performed by TSAR

Courtesy of TVT Records

"Iceman"

Written and Performed by Bruce Springsteen

Courtesy of Columbia Records

By Arrangement with SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT

"The Night"

Written by Jerry Kalaf

Performed by The JK Jazz Ensemble

"Try Whistling This"

Written and Performed by Neil Finn

Courtesy of Epic Records

By arrangement with SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT/EMI Records Ltd.

"Seinfeld" Theme

Written by Jonathan Wolff

"Beautiful Girl"

Written by Andrew Farriss

Performed by INXS

Courtesy of Mercury Records Limited

Under license from Universal Music Enterprises/Atlantic Recording Corp.

By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing

"When I Write The Book"

Written by Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds, Billy Bremner and Terry Williams

Performed by Rockpile

Courtesy of Riviera Global Records Ltd.

By Arrangement with Ocean Park Music Group

"Seinfeld" Clip Courtesy of Castle Rock Entertainment

CORBIS

Final Draft Software provided by FINAL DRAFT INC.

Filmed on Location in Victoria, British Columbia and Los Angeles, California

The Producers Wish to Thank the following for their Assistance:

The City of Victoria, British Columbia

The Families of Weald Street

Chapman Camera Cranes & Dollies provided by P S PRODUCTION SERVICES, LTD. - -

Canada

Filmed with PANAVISION ® Cameras and Lenses

Color by TECHNICOLOR ®

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© 2006 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

Story and Screenplay

© 2006 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

Original Score

© 2006 Warner-Olive Music, LLC

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