The 24 Hour Woman

The 24 Hour Woman is a 1999 film directed and co-written by Nancy Savoca. The film was shot on location in New York City.

The 24 Hour Woman
Original film poster
Directed by	Nancy Savoca
Written by	Nancy Savoca Richard Guay
Produced by	Larry Meistrich
Starring	Rosie Perez Marianne Jean-Baptiste Patti LuPone Karen Duffy Diego Serrano Wendell Pierce
Cinematography	Teresa Medina
Edited by	Camilla Toniolo
Production company	Shooting Gallery
Distributed by	Artisan Entertainment
Release date	January 29, 1999 (1999-01-29)
Running time	93 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$2,500,000
Box office	$109,535 (US)

Taglines

"A story about getting everything you want and what comes next."

Plot

Grace (Rosie Perez) struggles to be both a successful television producer and mother.

Principal cast

Actor	Role
Rosie Perez	Grace Santos
Marianne Jean-Baptiste	Madeline Labelle
Patti LuPone	Joan Marshall
Karen Duffy	Margo Lynn
Diego Serrano	Eddie Diaz
Melissa Leo	Dr. Suzanne Pincus
Wendell Pierce	Roy Labelle
Chris Cooper	Ron Hacksby
Cari Gorostiza	Abuela

Critical reception

Janet Maslin of The New York Times found the film's depiction of working women to be genuine but overall did not think highly of the film:

The 24-Hour Woman, in which a woman with a high-powered job tries to cope with the high-powered hassles of balancing career and family. But somebody on the other side of the camera has clearly been here and done this, and boy, does it show on screen... It would be nice to report that Ms. Savoca, whose True Love belongs high on any list of films rich in womanly wisdom and whose Household Saints and Dogfight were no less fearless, had made the most of such a golden opportunity to hit a nerve. But The 24-Hour Woman is an unexpectedly strained farce, and not often a very credible one at that. With the notable exception of a long, classic comedy-of-errors sequence about a working mother racing to her child's first birthday party, the film is otherwise a homey compendium of feminist talking points laced with awkward satire.

However, Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times enjoyed the film and rated it 3 stars out of his 4 star rating system and overall thought it was a pleasant experience:

The 24 Hour Woman is a message picture wrapped inside a screwball comedy, with a touch of satire aimed at TV talk shows. It doesn't all work, but it happens so fast we don't get stuck in the awkward parts.

External links

• The 24 Hour Woman at IMDb
• The 24 Hour Woman at AllMovie
• The 24 Hour Woman at Box Office Mojo