| | | Wife Goes On.
Features: DVD, Widescreen, English, Dolby, Digital Audio
Primetime Emmy Award winner Debra Messing (Will and Grace) lights up the screen in The Starter Wife! Follow the uplifting adventures of Molly Kagen (Messing), a Hollywood wife who must reinvent herself after being left by her movie executive husband. Jon Avnet (Fried Green Tomatoes) directs a dazzling ensemble cast, including Judy Davis (Husbands and Wives), Miranda Otto (Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers), Joe Mantegna (Bugsy) and Anika Noni Rose (Dreamgirls). Based on the bestselling novel by Gigi Levangie Grazer, this must-own 2-disc set includes all 6 liberating TV-hours of funny, empowering entertainment. Say "I do" to The Starter Wife on DVD!
"...a superb cast...Messing as Molly is pitch-perfect..." April MacIntyre, Monsters and Critics
"Essentially, it's "Desperate Housewives" with "Entourage"-style namedropping..." Brian Lowry, Variety
Editor's Note
Based on the novel by Gigi Levangie Grazer and directed by Jon Avnet (UP CLOSE & PERSONAL), THE STARTER WIFE portrays the soul-searching journey of a woman who reevaluates her priorities after her divorce. Molly Kagan (Debra Messing) has been married to Hollywood film mogul Kenny (Peter Jacobson) for nearly 10 years, until he leaves her for a younger woman, Shoshanna (Trilby Glover). Molly's friends Joan (Judy Davis) and Rodney (Chris Diamantopoulos) come to the rescue, to insure that it's only a matter of time before Molly finds romance again.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital Stereo | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Universal |
| Release Date: 1/15/2008 |
| Running Time: 266 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2007 | | Catalog ID: 61101232 | | UPC: 00025195010337 | | Number of Discs: 2 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Available Subtitles: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78:1 |
| Cast & Crew | Anika Noni Rose | | Debra Messing | | Joe Mantegna | | Judy Davis | | Brian Edmonds - Art Director | | Geoffrey Simpson - Cinematographer | | Gigi Levangie Grazer - Producer | | Gigi Levangie Grazer - Based On Novel By | | Howard Klein - Executive Producer | | Jon Avnet - Director | | Josann McGibbon - Screenplay | | Robert Florio - Editor | | Sara Parriott - Screenplay | | Tracey Gallacher - Production Designer |
| Awards |
Nominee (2007) | | | Emmy, Tracey Gallacher, Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries or Movie | | | Emmy, Debra Messing, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie | | | Emmy, The Starter Wife, Outstanding Miniseries | | | Emmy, Joe Mantegna, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie | | | Emmy, Judy Davis, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie |
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| | Professional Reviews | Monsters and Critics 9 of 10
Grazer's quick paced tale has been made into a masterful froth by screenwriters Josann McGibbon and Sara Parriott, written with the style of Grazer's original laconic humor, resulting in a light and dark retelling of the original story for television...It will appease fans of the book and features a superb cast that includes Debra Messing, Joe Mantegna, Miranda Otto & Anika Noni Rose and Judy Davis...Messing as Molly is pitch-perfect as the unwitting instant pariah. She's forty-something, and over the hill in a town that worships youth, beauty, and status...Along the lines of "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" - a sexy, mysterious beach stud saves Molly from an ill-fated sea kayak excursion in the rough, Pacific shoreline...This is not "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" heavy fare, far from it, and bless you, Gigi, for having the stones to put it down for all our voyeuristic and vicarious guilty pleasure. - April MacIntyre
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