Rachel Brosnahan, the double Golden Globe-winning star of TV’s
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, stars as sheltered mob wife Jean in this stylish and ambitious female-centric gangster film. Directed by Julia Hart (
Fast Colour), who wrote the screenplay with her husband,
La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz – probably best remembered for handing back the Oscar to
Moonlight –
I’m Your Woman tells of how Jean goes on the run after her husband betrays his partner.
Lounging around in stylish 70s garb and chain-smoking her days away, Jean isn’t what you might call your average suburban housewife. By her own admission, she is also a terrible cook who spends hours of her day lost in her own thoughts. One day her husband Eddie (Bill Heck) arrives home with a baby in his arms and declares the infant to be theirs. His story about a teenage unwanted pregnancy is taken at face value, and Jean, who has so far been unable to conceive, decides to keep the baby, naming him Harry.
So, are you a film fan that gets a bit of seasonal movie overload this time of year? You’re thinking, “Enough with the couples making ‘goo-goo’ eyes while whipping up a snowman!” or perhaps, with all that’s happening you can’t get your “jolly” on. In the mood for a gritty action thriller, set in those “down and dirty” 1970s, complete with pistol-packin’ polyester-wearing thugs? Well, Santa’s cinema elves have fashioned a stocking-stuffer just for you. So, is this a follow-up to the crime epic from last year’s holiday season, with more “digitally de-aged” Bobby D and Al P? Nope, it’s not needed this time around, because the lead is one of our newer rising stars, though she’s best known as the lead in a celebrated TV sitcom. Her? This gets a bit more interesting. What happens amidst the usual gangster mayhem when she steps forward to proclaim I’M YOUR WOMAN.