Little to recommend in 'The Women'

Mary Haines (Meg Ryan) is a successful, part-time fashion designer with a handsome Wall Street husband Stephen, a 12-year-old daughter Molly (India Ennenga) and a coterie of loyal friends: women’s magazine editor Sylvie (Annette Bening), clucky mother hen Edie (Debra Messing) and sassy lesbian author Alex (Jada Pink Smith).

When the pals learn from motor mouth manicurist Tanya (Debi Mazar) that Stephen is having an affair with gold-digging salesgirl Crystal Allen (Eva Mendes), they rally to the cuckolded wife’s side.

'The Women' is a dull, contemporary remake of the 1939 George Cukor classic, which chronicled sisterly rivalry in the swankier nooks and crannies of Manhattan society.

As re-imagined by writer-director Diane English, this is an inoffensive clone of 'Sex And The City'.