Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her

“A man only sees what a woman wants him to know.”

Character: Carol Faber
Released: January 22, 2000

Directed by: Rodrigo García
Written by: Rodrigo García
Genre: Drama, Romance

Co-Starring: Glenn Close, Calista Flockhart, Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Holly Hunter. (click here for additional cast)

An anthology of five loosely connected stories dealing with a variety of very different women in dealing with their own life problems. The first story “This is Dr. Keener” features Glenn Close as a doctor looking after her invalid mother who comes to realize that her own life is passing her by. The second story “Fantasies About Rebecca” features Holly Hunter as a wealthy bank manager who doesn’t realize that her own life is a sham in dealing with an unplanned pregnancy, a workaholic boyfriend, and an observant street woman who knows more about Rebecca than she herself does. The third, “Someone For Rose” features Kathy Baker as a single mother who debates with herself over starting a romance with a dwarf who moves into the house across her street. The fourth, “Goodnight Lilly, Goodnight Christine” features Calista Flockhart as Christine, a tarot reader who struggles with increasing grief and depression while taking care of her lesbian lover Lilly who’s dying from cancer. The fifth, “Love Waits for Kathy” features Amy Brenneman as a police detective who examines her loneliness after her blind sister Carol begins dating while Kathy is on a case of investigating the suicide of an old school friend who was just as lonely as she.

Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her Gallery

Movie Trivia

  • Cameron appears in the segment “Love Waits for Kathy”.
  • Cameron’s character’s a blind woman.
  • A Braille book that Cameron Diaz’s character reads is “One Hundred Years of Solitude”. Which was written by the director’s father Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Movie Quotes

Carol: God says to Adam, “Adam, I have something for you, but it’s gonna cost you an arm and a leg.” Adam thinks for a moment, then decides, “What can you give me for a rib?”
Kathy: That’s funny. Where’d you hear it?
Carol: From the Bible.

Carol: Maybe she was just tired of dead ends, phone calls that were never returned, promises that were never kept, tripping over the same stone.

Cast and Crew Quotes

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