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What Women Want (2000), Director: Nancy Meyers; rated PG-13 for language, adult themes

He has the power to hear everything women are thinking. Finally... a man is listening.

Film ClipStarring: Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt, Marisa Tomei, Alan Alda, Ashley Johnson, Mark Feuerstein, Lauren Holly, Delta Burke, Valerie Perrine

DML Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ - good

"You talk to me like a woman, you think like a woman. Nick, come on, admit it. You're totally and completely gay!" – Lola

Why watch this? Two very likeable stars make this very creative RomCom work.

Plot Summary: At his apartment, Nick survives an accidental bathtub electrocution, but there is a side effect: he can hear the thoughts of every female near him. He's immediately enlightened to the fact that most women don't like him. Nick is passed over for promotion, when his advertising firm hires a competing female exec, Darcy Maguire, to feminize their image.

Dad's Preview: We all know the man who is full of himself (If you don't know that guy, you are that guy). Confident. Charming. But often a chauvinist, and sometimes a bit of a tool. He really needs to be knocked down a peg. Mel Gibson is that guy, Nick Marshall. It is hilarious to watch Nick navigate through his new "powers". Gibson and Hunt have super on-screen chemistry, and it's their interactions that carry this very funny and romantic film.


Icon Productions, Wind Dancer Films; Paramount Pictures

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