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Rating: Country: USA Release Date: January 10, 2006 Distributor: 20th Century Fox Director: · Aileen Ritchie Cast: · Ian Hart · Sean McGinley · Niamh Cusack · Ruth McCabe · Ewan Stewart · Pat Shortt Grade: A
“American Women” follows the stories of the people from a remote close-knit Donegal town in Ireland, one of those places where everyone knows one another and no matter what happens, the entire population finds out within a day or two. To persuade people to attend church, the local priest, Father Hubbert Malone, (Risteard Cooper) starts showing movies every other Tuesday. This week was scheduled for “The Ten Commandments”, however a mix up occurs and he instead gets a copy of “10”, with Bo Derek, which ignites all sorts of ideas in the minds of the local bachelors, which include the charismatic town butcher Kieran (Ian Hart) and his ridiculous ideas as the ringleader, along with his older brother Ian (Sean McGinley) and his friends Ollie (Pat Shortt) and Pat (Ewan Stewart).
Those thoughts are quickly turned into action after they get liquored up at the pub one night. The boys decide that they need some more “exotic” women as the local ones are far too average for them. To remedy the situation, they place an ad in the Miami Herald, asking for sporty women between the ages of 20 and 21 to come to the village for the big dance and possibly marriage. When one of the guys takes it to the local postmistress, Mary (Ruth McCabe), she wonders what they would possibly want to send to Miami, and being the inquisitive small town type she is, she pops open the letter, which of course means the whole town knows by that night. This causes the women to hatch a plan to get back at them, first by embarrassing them at the pub by revealing that they know about it and then later deciding to get even with them by inviting a group of Spanish fishermen to the dance, who also happen to be excellent musicians and dancers. This predictably keeps the guys on the sidelines most of the time.
The boys eventually figure out that nobody is going to answer their ad. They begin to pair off with the local women, realizing they were making a mistake and that there were plenty of women for them right under their noses. Kate decides she wants a better life for her 8 year old daughter (Niamh Cusack) and ends up separating from Sean the pub owner (Sean McDonagh) due to his philandering, giving Ian the chance he needs to ask her out, seeing as he has had interest in her for a long time. After confessing that he will be a virgin for the rest of his life in front of three older women to get his huge stack of Dutch skin magazines that he ordered, Ollie ends up with Mary, who is old enough to be his mother. Kieran finally realizes that he has feelings for his assistant Siobhan (Cathleen Bradley) and asks her out. Sean is the only one that doesn’t find someone, and at the end he is seen getting on the bus to see the world, right after three young women, presumably from the Miami area, arrive on said bus.
The movie has plenty of funny bits and is well worth at least a rental. Produced by the same group that was responsible for “The Full Monty”, it trends on the same topic, namely conflict of interest between men and women. There is not as much over the top comedy, but still plenty is present to keep it interesting.
Special features are severely lacking, with just the movie trailer and previews for “The Full Monty”, “The Imposters”, and “Waking Ned Devine”.
