Ladies in Bother is a 2009 American intercourse comedy film written, produced, and directed by Sebastian Gutierrez and starring Carla Gugino, Connie Britton, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Marley Shelton, Adrianne Palicki, Simon Baker, and Josh Brolin. It was shot in 10 days for $50,000.

Plot
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The movie focuses on six girls in Los Angeles as their lives turn into intertwined within the course of 24 hours.

After studying that she is pregnant, porn star Elektra Luxx gets stuck in an elevator with Doris, sister to Addy. Upon learning in regards to the affair throughout a therapy session with Charlotte, Maxine rushes out and will get into her car. Meanwhile, flight attendant Cora finds herself the item of rock star Nick Chapel’s affection on a flight to his band’s upcoming present. Whereas backing out, she hits porn star Holly Rocket, a colleague of Elektra Luxx who had been fleeing with her pal, Bambi, from a job that had gone incorrect. Addy has lately started taking her daughter (who is actually the biological daughter of Doris but as a consequence of drug abuse and Doris’ at the time abusive boyfriend, she was raised by Addy) Charlotte, to see her therapist, Maxine, while secretly utilizing the visits to sleep with Maxine’s husband.

Carla Gugino as Elektra Luxx, an adult movie superstar

Adrianne Palicki as Holly Rocket, an grownup movie actress

Connie Britton as Doris, Addy’s sister

Caitlin Keats as Addy Hunter, Doris’ sister

Isabella Gutierrez as Charlotte, Doris’ 13-yr-old daughter

Marley Shelton as Cora, a flight attendant

Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon as Maggie, a flight attendant

Josh Brolin as Nick Chapel, a rock star who’s a passenger on the airplane

Emmanuelle Chriqui as Bambi, a call woman

Rya Kihlstedt as Rita, a barmaid at Ruby’s Caribbean, the lesbian bar, and Darby’s roommate

Cameron Richardson as Darby, a masseuse and Rita’s roommate

Sarah Clarke as Maxine McPherson, a therapist

Simon Baker as Travis McPherson, Maxine’s husband

Xander Berkeley as Mr. Frost, one of the individuals speaking to the therapist

Elizabeth Berkley as Tracy, one of the folks talking to the therapist

Lauren Katz as Tara, one of the individuals talking to the therapist

Paul Cassell as a Jay, one of the folks talking to the therapist

Ermahn Ospina as El Capitan, a character within the porn movie

Greg Lauren as fireman

Samantha Shelton as singer at Ruby’s Caribbean

Antonio Graña as Jimbo, the mafioso muscle

Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Bert Rodriguez, a “intercourse blogger”

Manufacturing and sequel
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Main article: Elektra Luxx
The film was directed by Sebastian Gutierrez. [2] The movie opened within the United States on November 13, 2009. A sequel, Elektra Luxx, was released on March 11, 2011. Gutierrez returns because the author-director, and the forged includes Carla Gugino, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Timothy Olyphant, Julianne Moore, and Justin Kirk. The movie premiered at the 2009 South by Southwest Film Festival. Manufacturing began and ended in Los Angeles. Gutierrez is planning on making a 3rd installment, tentatively titled Women in Ecstasy,[3] which was initially deliberate to be released in 2012.

Critical reception
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Ladies in Bother polarized critics. On the evaluation aggregator webpage Rotten Tomatoes, the movie holds an approval score of 29% based on 24 critiques, with an average rating of 4.2/10. The website’s critics consensus reads, “Sebastian Gutierrez certainly has a watch for the great thing about the female kind, however Ladies in Trouble lacks a compelling script or viewpoint to go together with its curvaceous visual appeal.”[4] Metacritic, which makes use of a weighted common, assigned the film a rating of 43 out of 100, primarily based on 9 critics, indicating “combined or average” reviews.[5]

On the optimistic side, Joe Leydon of Variety gave it a rave review, calling it “[a] compulsively watchable mix of high camp and grand passions, soap opera and softcore intercourse. Very a lot within the deliriously lewd type of Pedro Almodóvar-who has co-written unproduced scripts with Gutierrez, and gets a shout-out within the closing credits-this exuberantly uninhibited indie has the something-goes spirit of something tossed off in a single burst of collaborative power”.[2] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Occasions assessed, “Women in Bother has sleeper written throughout it and a sequel is already in the works”.[6] John DeFore writing for The Hollywood Reporter praised the route: “Gutierrez’s script can’t provide feminine characters as believable as Almodovar’s, however within the director’s chair he gives his forged room to compensate with humorous, self-aware performances”.[7]

At the opposite end of the spectrum, Melissa Anderson writing for The Village Voice said that “blue material mixes awkwardly with sob tales”.[8] Manohla Dargis of The brand new York Times was not amused, complaining that “[t]he amateurish manufacturing values might be pardoned if the clichés-the hard-core porn star with the delicate coronary heart, the therapist who must heal herself-inside the poorly lighted, badly shot pictures weren’t so absurd and often insulting.”[9] Matthew Connolly of Slant Magazine gave it 1.5 out of four stars and stated “At a very rundown nook of Almodóvar Boulevard and Tarantino Lane, you’ll find Women in Hassle”.[10]

^ “Girls in Trouble (2009)”. Field Workplace Mojo. Retrieved Could 26, 2023.

^ a b Leydon, Joe (March 30, 2009). “Women in Trouble”. Selection.

^ Fleming, Michael (December 15, 2008). “Carla Gugino to star in ‘Elektra Luxx'”. Variety.

^ “Women in Trouble”. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved Might 26, 2023.

^ “Women in Hassle”. Metacritic. Retrieved June 23, 2025.

^ Thomas, Kevin (November 13, 2009). “Review; ‘Girls’s’ lives exit of management”. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 15, 2021.

^ DeFore, John (March 17, 2009). “Girls in Hassle – Film Overview”. The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved August 15, 2021.

^ Anderson, Melissa (November 10, 2009). “Women in Hassle Awkwardly Mixes Blue Material with Sob Stories”. The Village Voice. Retrieved August 15, 2021.

^ Dargis, Manohla (November 12, 2009). “Love, Sex, Whatever”. The new York Occasions. p. C12. Retrieved Might 26, 2023.

^ Connolly, Matthew (November 10, 2009). “Evaluation: Women in Hassle”. Slant Journal.

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