Women Talking Dirty

1999

Comedy / Romance

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 79% · 3 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 79% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.0/10 10 882 882

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Plot summary

A lively, outspoken single mother develops an unlikely friendship with a shy cartoonist.

Director

Coky Giedroyc Photo
Coky Giedroyc

Top cast

Helena Bonham Carter Photo
Helena Bonham Carter as Cora
Freddie Highmore Photo
Freddie Highmore as Sam
James Purefoy Photo
James Purefoy as Daniel
Gina McKee Photo
Gina McKee as Ellen
720p.WEB 1080p.WEB
860.33 MB
1280*960
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
25 fps
1 hr 33 min
Seeds 1
1.56 GB
1440*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
25 fps
1 hr 33 min
Seeds 2

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by federovsky

Soapy and engaging Scottish bohemiana

Immediately recognisable as a 90's picture (where angst is quaint and cute and alternative lifestyles are tender and heroic), this is a witty and engaging record of a time and a place, as well as a touching observation on issues I presume are of great resonance to women. If you'll allow me (a bloke) to make this gross generalisation: it seems there are two types of women in the world - those who blithely and automatically have babies and those for whom the obstacles to having babies are life's major dilemma. This film brings together the two types nicely, showing how each (inevitably) brushes up against the other, but who, despite their different personalities, are just as equally in great sympathy with each other.I baulked at the thought of Londoner Helena Bonham Carter playing a wee Scottish punk character - any movie with affected accents are usually a disaster zone - but she pulled it off brilliantly and has gone up several notches in my estimation as a result. She caught the vivacity and wittily fatalistic character of Cora very amusingly - not least in the scene where she searches on her hands and knees for food in the fridge in front her two young children, or where she runs hysterically shoeless through the streets, pursued by her pending boyfriend, to whom, when he finally catches up with her outside her door, she says "thanks for walking me home".Along the way there are some pleasantly whimsical (90's style) friends and neighbors, plus Purefoy's beautifully balanced charming/despicable rake. The whole is atmospherically packaged in chilly autumnal Edinburgh, and the film ends up nicely too in a way appropriate for each character.Anyone with an interest in people and human situations (because these people are reasonably valid) should like this film. Have an open mind and you'll enjoy this.
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Reviewed by danieljfarthing 6 / 10

Flawed but watchable (just about) Brit dramedy

In director Coky Geidroyc's 1999 Edinburgh-based "Women Talking Dirty" single mum Helena Bonham Carter (over-cooking the zany) is bedded & impregnated by James Purefoy, who she THEN learns is the philandering bounder husband of her new best pal Gina McKee (good)... but she doesn't tell McKee (!) despite being blameless & the truth being clearly primed to emerge sometime... which (surprise!) it does years later at a drunken dinner party with James Nesbitt, Eileen Atkins, Richard Wilson & Kenneth Cranham. Despite Bonham Carter's performance & numerous holes in Isla Dewar's screenplay, it's a watchable enough dramedy (just about).

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