American Women |  | Director: Aileen Ritchie
Actors: Ian Hart, Sean McGinley, Niamh Cusack, Ruth McCabe, Ewan Stewart
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 92 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.4
MPN: FOXD2231943D
UPC: 024543173823
EAN: 0024543173823
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
Release Date: January 10, 2006
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Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 01/15/2008 Run time: 92 minutes Rating: Pg13
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To get people into church, a young priest starts screening films every other Tuesday. He's expecting The Ten Commandments; instead, he gets 10, with Bo Derek, which launches the lonely lads of this isolated Irish town into wild fantasies about sexy American women. One rambunctious night in the local pub, the boys decide to place an ad in the Miami Herald, asking for attractive young women to come to their town for a dance and possible marriage. Thus begins American Women (formerly The Closer You Get), an enjoyable comedy in the vein of Waking Ned Devine. When the town's women learn of this hare-brained scheme, their reactions vary from bemusement to offense, and they set in motion a counter-scheme that changes the course of romance in the village. The cast is largely unknown (the most recognizable face is Ian Hart, who played John Lennon in Backbeat) but talented all around, investing their rural characters with heart and intelligence, without being afraid of poking a bit of fun at their foibles. American Women is produced by the same people who produced The Full Monty. While this movie treads similar territory (the sometimes conflicting desires of men and women), it has a little less comic punch and a little more Irish bittersweetness. --Bret Fetzer
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 Predictable fun like the other fox flix films July 12, 2009
bernie (Arlington, Texas)
Fox flix brought us such memorable with their unique sense of humor as:
The full Monty
The impostors
Waking Ned Devine
In this presentation "American women", aka "The Closer You Get" we have bored single batchers who live at the end of the world in rural Ireland. Realizing that their prospects of meeting interesting women are few, they come to a scheme of advertising for American women in the Miami Harold.
Little do the suspect that the local women intercept their communiqué and have counter plans of their own. Now the fun begins.
Waking Ned Devine
 Were it not for the trees, these boyos would see the forest April 13, 2009
Byrne Hourihane (Phoenix, Az. USA.)
Reminiscent of The Matchmaker and Waking Ned Devine, this spirited Irish laugher directed by first-timer Aileen Ritchie takes moviegoers once again to rural Ireland for another round of the battle of the sexes. Placing a personal ad in the Miami Herald, our Irish homeboy heroes hatch a plan to lure American babes to scenic Donegal from scenic Florida, for mutual amorous benefit. The local Irish lasses don't take kindly to this possible turf infringement, and while the guys primp and try to figure out ways to make themselves more marketable, the lasses wrap themselves around some Spanish fishermen whose timely arrival offshore makes for some comedic interlude and jealousy.
Ian Hart "Backbeat" plays a butcher-turned-Brad Pitt, who after determining that blondes really do have more fun, waits patiently in pub and at bus stop for the avalanche of lovelies to materialize. What he and the other would-be hunks fail to see is, of course, what is staring them in the face. For the closer you get, the more difficult it is to see what was there all the time. (I think we have a movie title somewhere in that line.)
The end is quite predictable. Bus after bus arrives in the sleepy seaside Irish burgh, departs, and fails to deposit the anticipated American beauties. Instead relationships slowly smoldering throughout the length of the movie suddenly burst into flame. Even a man whose only previous experience with the opposite sex came from porn magazines connects with a fortunate colleen.
Rated PG-13.
Starring Ian Hart, Ewan Stewart, Sean McGinley, Ruth McCabe, Sean McDonagh, Cathleen Bradley and Pat Shortt.
American Women - The Closer You Get March 23, 2009
N.J.Mc (Huntington Beach, California)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was originally released as "The Closer You Get". It's a wonderful story about a small Irish village that learns a valuable lesson about loving and appreciating what's right under your nose. Proves the adage that "the grass is not always greener..."!
American Women January 6, 2009
Alexis Williams
I got this movie for my mother for Christmas. We had seen it a few times via satellite dish and we thought that it was hilarious! So I got her one gift that she had picked out entirely and was there with me while I purchased it, so I told her I was going to buy another gift. She said oh get me American women!! I told her I couldn't find it online at all, so when she opened it on Christmas she freaked out! It was the best Christmas ever. Needless to say I ordered almost all y presents online from Amazon this year!
American Women Ian Hart July 15, 2007
Catherine Daly (Lewiston, NY)
I got this product as a birthday present and my friend loved it. Great movie and she said she would love the movie.
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