WOMAN WANTED

US, 19, 110 minutes, colour..Colour.
Holly Hunter, Kiefer Sutherland, Michael Moriarty, Carrie Preston.
Directed by Kiefer Sutherland.

Woman Wanted is an interesting portrait of three very different characters. The film is based on a contemporary novel with the author, Joanna McClelland? Glass, writing the screenplay and having a supporting role.

Because of an advertisement in the paper, Emma, Holly Hunter at the best, comes to the household where a patriarchal father, Richard, Michael Moriarty excellent, lives in tension with his son, Wendell, Kiefer Sutherland who also directed the film.

She has an attractive personality, is good at her work, making the father and son comfortable, so much so that the father proposes. He is definitely of the old school and has a dark past concerning his wife, whom he has committed, and disappearing for two days after her death. This has all alienated his hypersensitive son who tries to write poetry, giving some examples to Emma and her taking things in hand and sending letters to publishers. He has been accepted.

Emma wants to have a child and things get complicated with her relationship with Richard and her spending a night with Wendell. She hopes that father and son will be more reconciled.

1. The contemporary story, but New England traditions? Academia, wealth, class?

2. The total, the advertisement, the woman from Richard, the woman for Wendell?

3. The provocative title? Emma in herself, her life, enthusiasm, work in the household, with Richard, the bond leading to love, the relationship, proposal? With Wendell, the interactions, his difficulties, sexual? Her desire to be pregnant?

4. In the home, the rules, relying on the traditions, expectations? Richard and his quiet life, research? The past, his wife, her illness, committed, his motives, his mistress even before his wife died? Her death and his disappearance to the mistress? Trying to cope? Wendell, his age, the tensions, growing up, reliance on his mother, his relationships, his woman friend, his poetry, moods, privacy, his room, seeing him and work with the answering service?

5. Emma, her age, her past life, her husband, the divorce, the world of the theatre, managing, an organised woman, arriving at the house, accepted for the job, the meals, cleaning and tidying? Sharing with Richard, his making her part of the family, evenings, the drink together, talking? His rules in the management? Wendell and his coping, his behaviour, meals, moods?

6. The maid coming in, not able to bend, cleaning windows, support to Wendell?

7. The neighbour, friendliness, and confiding in her, the religious dimension, support?

8. Wendell, the girlfriend, her arriving, the awkwardness, the relationship, the decision to go?

9. Wendell giving: is to Emma, and not showing them to Richard? The social, meeting the poets and editors, arranging for Wendell to sending problems, his waiting, nervousness, the letter, his being accepted?

10. Richard and his style, comfort, the proposal?

11. Wendell, his return, dependence on Emma, the sexual encounter?

12. Emma, her desire for a child, Richard and his anger, his apology? Wendell and his surprise? His decision to go? The way that Emma handled the situation with each of them?

13. Father and son, talks, the possibility of reconciliation, the new situation, the uncertainty as to who was the father, therefore responsibility?

14. Finally, Emma’s happiness with her child?