In the Land of Women is a 2007 drama film directed and written by Jon Kasdan. It was screened at the Cannes Film Festival on May 18, 2006. The film premiered in the United States on April 20, 2007.

Plot

Carter Webb (Adam Brody) is a young, soft-core pornography writer living in Los Angeles when his young, starlet girlfriend Sofia (Elena Anaya) dumps him. Carter pleads with Sofia for her to stay, but she leaves nonetheless, though visibly upset.

Carter then goes to his mother's home in order to reclaim an item when he sees his mother crying in the living room. She explains that her mentally unstable mother, Phyllis, (Olympia Dukakis), claims that she is dying -- though her doctor cannot find anything fatal. Carter's mother tells him that she will be leaving to go to Michigan to take care of Phyllis. Carter offers to take his mother's place as caregiver for his grandmother, explaining that he wanted to get out of the life he was currently living and write a biographical story he has been working on the past eleven years. Though his mother objects to this decision and tries to warn him, he ignores her and flies to Michigan.