Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Moderate
- Complexity
- Simple
- Violence
- None
- witty
- breezy
- risqué
- lazy sunday
- 1980s comedy night
What critics said
Critics generally found the film a competently made but lightweight romantic farce, with occasional laughs and performances unable to overcome thin characterization and familiar infidelity clichés.
What sets it apart
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Theodore Pierce's fixation on Charlotte drives his attempts to conceal infidelity from Didi while navigating increasingly absurd mishaps.
Charlotte's red dress, especially in the celebrated skirt-and-grate sequence, functions as the film's defining image of erotic obsession.
Teddy has a wife, children, friends, and a successful job, yet pursues Charlotte because he imagines desire can complete an otherwise settled life.
Theodore's advertising-executive identity and family-man image contrast with his increasingly desperate, embarrassing pursuit of Charlotte.
Films like The Woman in Red, and why
The Seven Year Itch
Both are breezy romantic farces about married men tempted by glamorous women, driven by escalating infidelity and comic embarrassment.
Unfaithfully Yours
Both use middle-class marital temptation, sexual frustration, and broad farce to examine the instability beneath domestic respectability.
Blame It on Rio
Both are adultery comedies centered on a self-deceiving husband whose pursuit of an affair produces increasingly absurd complications.
Cousin, Cousine
Both adapt French romantic-comedy premises into American farce focused on infidelity, male fantasy, and marital consequences.
Movie Details
- Director
- Gene Wilder
- Release Date
- 1984-08-15
- Runtime
- 87 min
- Rating
- 6.3 / 10 (589)
Cast
- Gene Wilder
- Charles Grodin
- Joseph Bologna
- Judith Ivey
- Michael Huddleston
- Kelly LeBrock
- Gilda Radner
- Kyle T. Heffner
- Michael Zorek
- Billy Beck
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Amazon Prime Video, YouTube TV, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is The Woman in Red about?
- A married San Francisco advertising executive spirals into comic obsession after becoming fixated on a woman in a red dress.
- What is The Woman in Red like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of The Woman in Red as brisk, its intensity as moderate and its storytelling as simple.
- Is The Woman in Red violent?
- No — Ember's analysis finds no violence in The Woman in Red.
- What did critics think of The Woman in Red?
- Critics generally found the film a competently made but lightweight romantic farce, with occasional laughs and performances unable to overcome thin characterization and familiar infidelity clichés.
- Which films are like The Woman in Red?
- Films with a similar feel include The Seven Year Itch, Unfaithfully Yours, Blame It on Rio, and Cousin, Cousine.
- How long is The Woman in Red?
- The Woman in Red runs 87 minutes.
- Where can I watch The Woman in Red?
- In United States, The Woman in Red streams on Amazon Prime Video, YouTube TV, Amazon Prime Video with Ads.
