I didn’t really know what to make of this one when I got my hands on a copy, that Screen Media sent my way for me to have a look at, of Women in Trouble, and frankly, I still don’t know what to think now that it’s done.

Women in Trouble is a series of interconnected vignettes about women, in various kinds of trouble.  There are two women trapped in an elevator relating to each other.  There’s a psychotherapist who’s discovered her husband is cheating on her with a client…at the therapist’s suggestion.  Well, to be fair, the suggestion was “to be wild and irresponsible”, so that could’ve gone any number of ways.  This segues into a bit about a porn star temporarily turned hooker who joins her friend for a more serious problem with a client, a stewardess’ liaison with a drugged-out rocker in an airplane bathroom, and so on down the line.

Seriously, in terms of logical cohesion or an overarching plotline, this movie is almost a complete waste of plastic.

Sure, it’s interesting enough in terms of the content–these troubled women are saying some pretty interesting stuff, and it’s actually worth keeping up with, but if you’re the kind of person who’s into an actual plot in their movies, instead of what amounts to a series of vaguely interconnected vignettes, then you’re at a total loss here. All Women in Trouble is is a bunch of women talking about stuff.  Sex and drugs and relationships and abortion and everything else that women normally talk about, just in movie form.  It’s like another Sex and the City movie, just lower budget.

Admittedly, I could’ve done without the Ringo story, though.

So all in all, if you’re cool with a movie that doesn’t so much have a story as it does reflect some women’s lives that are way, WAY too interesting for their own good, then you’ll enjoy Women in Trouble.  Oh, and stick around after the credits for an interesting little bit featuring Joseph Gordon-Levitt.  It’s the funniest part of the movie, bar none.  Truly.

The Screenhead Ten Scale is a little puzzled by all this, but understands a clearly niche product when it sees it and gives Women in Trouble a five out of ten–if you like this sort of thing, you’ll love it, but chances are not too many people will be into it.