Women in Trouble | |
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Directed by | Sebastian Gutierrez |
Produced by | Sebastian Gutierrez |
Written by | Sebastian Gutierrez |
Starring |
Carla Gugino Connie Britton Emmanuelle Chriqui Marley Shelton Elizabeth Berkley Cameron Richardson Adrianne Palicki Joseph Gordon-Levitt |
Music by | Robyn Hitchcock |
Cinematography | Cale Finot |
Edited by | Lisa Bromwell Michelle Tesoro |
Distributed by | Screen Media Films, Myriad Pictures (International) |
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Running time
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92 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $50,000 |
Women in Trouble is a 2009 American comedy film, written and directed by Sebastián Gutiérrez, and starring a cast consisting of Carla Gugino, Adrianne Palicki, Marley Shelton, Cameron Richardson, Connie Britton and Emmanuelle Chriqui. It was shot in 10 days for $50,000.
The film focuses on six women in Los Angeles as their lives become intertwined in the course of 24 hours.
Porn star Elektra Luxx (Carla Gugino) discovers she is pregnant. Leaving her doctor's office, she gets stuck in an elevator with Doris (Connie Britton), sister to Addy (Caitlin Keats). Addy has recently started taking her daughter, Charlotte, to see her therapist, Maxine (Sarah Clarke) (While secretly using the visit to sleep with the therapist's husband, upon choosing to follow her therapist's advice to "live with more risk."). Upon finding out about her husband's secret during a therapy session with Charlotte, Maxine rushes out and gets into her car. While backing out, she hits Holly Rocket (Adrianne Palicki), adult film star. Holly and Bambi (Emmanuelle Chriqui) were running to safety after a session with one of Bambi's clients is interrupted. Meanwhile, flight attendant Cora (Marley Shelton) finds herself the object of rock star Nick Chapel's (Josh Brolin) affection on a flight to his band's upcoming show.
The film was directed by Sebastian Gutierrez. Production began and ended in Los Angeles. The film premiered at the 2009 South by Southwest Film Festival. The film opened in the United States on November 13, 2009. A sequel, Elektra Luxx, was released on March 11, 2011. Gutierrez returns as the writer-director, and the cast includes Carla Gugino, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Timothy Olyphant, Julianne Moore and Justin Kirk. Gutierrez is planning on making a third installment, tentatively titled Women in Ecstasy which was initially planned to be released in 2012.