The first installment of a planned trilogy, “Women In Trouble” takes us into a day in the life of 10 different females sharing a similar uncanny ability to look hot and gorgeous in their underwear while in the middle of a highly emotional crisis.
Leading the pack is a pregnant porn star (Carla Gugino). Accompanying her in the powerful female cast are: a pair of call girls (Adrianne Palicki and Emmanuelle Chriqui) escaping and hiding from a mob murder were they were prime witnesses, a flight attendant (Marley Shelton) on her way to gaining access in the mile-high club but not before missing an heated bathroom quickie with an aging drummer (Josh Brolin). In between almost every takes and frames showing off female skin, you find yourself entangled in the lives of funny actresses injected with fine messes they keep getting caught up in.
Troubles they encounter range from adultery to the anxiety of having a first “girl-on-girl” experience. If that’s not weird enough, the scene I found most inappropriate, a futile attempt to inject a sexual appeal to a likewise issue was Gugino and Britton’s sequence. Porn star legend Elektra Luxx (Carla Gugino) and industry up-and-comer Holly Rocket (Adrianne Palicki) are on their way to filming a sex scene when Elektra learns through a phone call that she’s pregnant. Shocked beyond words, she peels out to the parking lot and drives her way to her doctor’s office. Unfortunately, she gets trapped in an elevator with Doris (Connie Britton), a high-strung careerist suffering from a dark past. Being locked up for a long time encourages the two women to share their moving tales whilst stripping down to their underwear. In normal films that was unnecessary but since the movie is linked together by the visual sexy women, it was called for. Credit would be given to them when viewers choose to listen to their stories instead of staring at them, which I highly doubt would happen.
Writer-director Sebastian Gutierrez concocts more scenarios, in large numbers, where the actresses strip down to their sexy lingerie and undergarments for men to feast their eyes on. Emotional unraveling coupled with physical disrobing is the distinctive factor of “Women in Trouble”.
Gutierrez aims high by showing to people that sexy women with raunchy lives have hopes, dreams, and feeling as well. Not just some trash laying around the corner for someone to use. However mixing it the tender moments with raunchy sexed-up comedy makes the film hilarious for all the wrong reasons. The good intentions of the film just flew out the window.
