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July 06, 2002
What Women Want
Amusing romantic comedy In a freak electrical accident, Mel Gibson is unharmed, but gains the power to hear everything women are thinking. He uses this power to make friends with his estranged daughter, save an employee from committing suicide, picking up a girl in the coffee-shop, and kicking his new female boss out of her job and getting it for himself. Obviously he loses his powers at the end. Well, it's not quite as simple as that, and Gibson is much more of a sympathetic character than that plot might indicate. He actually falls in love with his boss, Helen Hunt, and gets her her job back before they live happily ever after. Gibson is also very agreeable, which is a good thing as he is in almost every scene. Gibson hated Hunt when he thought he was a hard business woman, but when he heard her thoughts and saw how she was insecure and actually doubted her talent, he fell for her. As this film was made by a women, I thought that that message was a bit odd. Definitely worth a rewatch, as it's actually pretty funny. AE 1Posted by se71 at July 6, 2002 11:09 AM
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