What Women Want

Meyers next wrote and helmed What Women Want (2000), which featured Mel Gibson as a chauvinistic advertising executive who develops the ability to read women’s minds after an accident. While the romantic comedy received mixed reviews, it was popular with moviegoers and cemented Meyers’s position as a major player in…

…exemplified by films such as What Women Want (2000), Wedding Crashers (2005), The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) and Knocked Up (2007) and associated with directors such as Judd Apatow and stars such as Seth Rogen, Owen Wilson, and Steve Carell. These

(1989), Flirting with Disaster (1996), What Women Want (2000), Tower Heist (2011), Wanderlust (2012), The Longest Ride (2015), Bridge of Spies (2015), and Marriage Story (2019). He received an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor for his performance in The Aviator

What Women Want was released the same year, with Hunt playing opposite Mel Gibson. Although she appeared in few films over the following decade, she acted on Broadway in Yasmina Reza’s Life × 3 (2003) and in the TV miniseries Empire Falls (2005), which was…

…roles in such films as What Women Want (2000), Down with Love (2003), and The Notorious Bettie Page (2005).