The actors enjoy a relaxed chemistry, and you wonder if writer-director Julia Hart is, perhaps, leading us in a certain direction. Perhaps both a little surprisingly and disappointedly, “I’m Your Woman” is at its best during scenes shared by Brosnahan and Kene (“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”). There are some bumps along the way, but Cal gets her to a safehouse, where he leaves her with food, supplies, cash, a phone that should be plugged in and used only in the case of emergencies and strict instructions to talk to no one. The situation is nebulous, but it seems as though there are people after Eddie and others, such as Cal, working to protect him. “Everybody’s looking,” an equally frustrated Cal answers, “and they’re looking for you, too!” He is an associate of Eddie’s and tells her Eddie is missing and that she needs to grab the baby and leave immediately – with another man – for her protection.Īs this second man, Cal (Arinze Kene), drives her and Harry off to somewhere allegedly safe, she tries to get answers from him, such as the whereabouts of her husband. That is until an unexpected visit to the house by a man pounding on the door. She settles on Harry and spends her days taking the infant to the park and the like.
However, one day after leaving the house, he returns – with a baby boy, telling Jean the child is legally theirs and hers to name. (We get a relatively good idea when, after welcoming some men to their home, he closes a door on Jean “Godfather” style.) Eddie and Jean were going to have a kid but didn’t.Įddie doesn’t tell Jean much about his business and, relatedly, why he isn’t home many nights. “Eddie and Jean got married and bought a house. “Eddie and Jean met and fell in love,” she tells us with a decided lack of enthusiasm in the film’s opening narration, as we see the character sitting in her lawn during the day and having a glass of wine and a cigarette. More noteworthy: Midge’s gift for rat-a-tat-tat gab is nowhere to be found in the largely quiet Jean.
With the switch from Miriam “Midge” Maisel to this film’s protagonist, Jean, the actress again begins as a housewife but trades dark hair for blond locks, the ’50s for the ’70s and the Big Apple for an unnamed Northeastern city. Now we get to see a different side of the gifted performer, with Brosnahan starring in an intriguing, if not quite outstanding, drama film, “I’m Your Woman.” (Like “Maisel,” it can be streamed on the aforementioned Amazon platform.)
#WATCH IM YOUR WOMAN SERIES#
Maisel” has made actress Rachel Brosnahan a household name – at least within households where that Prime Video series about a housewife-turned-comedian in 1950s New York City is binged or otherwise consumed.Īnd Brosnahan deserves all the credit – and Emmys, Golden Globes and other awards – in the world, for as inconsistent as that show can be, its lead is never the problem.
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