What Women Want

2000 film directed by Nancy Meyers
Movie film Q156394
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Summary

What Women Want is a film[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (16,381 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Director: Nancy Meyers[3]
  • Screenwriter: Josh Goldsmith[4]
  • Composer: Alan Silvestri[5]
  • Genre: romantic comedy film[6], fantasy film[7], science fiction film[8], screwball comedy film[9]
  • Cast member: Mel Gibson[10], Helen Hunt[11], Marisa Tomei[12], Alan Alda[13], Lauren Holly[14], Ashley Johnson[15], Bette Midler[16], Mark Feuerstein[17], Eric Balfour[18], Logan Lerman[19], Diana-Maria Riva[20], Judy Greer[21], Valerie Perrine[22], Ana Gasteyer[23]
  • Producer: Susan Cartsonis[24], Bruce Davey[25], Matt Williams[26], Nancy Meyers[27]
  • Depicts: advertising agency[28], father and daughter[29], teenager[30], prom[31]
  • Production company: Icon Productions[32], Paramount Pictures[33]
  • Director of photography: Dean Cundey[34]
  • Original language of film or TV show: English[35]
  • Distribution format: video on demand[36]
  • Review score: 5.7/10[37], 54%[38], 47/100[39]
  • Color: color[40]
  • Country of origin: United States[41]
  • Publication date: December 15, 2000[42], February 15, 2001[43]
  • Distributed by: Paramount Pictures[44], Netflix[45]
  • Narrative location: Chicago[46]
  • Filming location: Long Beach[47], Chicago[48], Hoose Library of Philosophy[49]
  • Main subject: Q141699299[50]
  • Film editor: Thomas J. Nordberg[51], Stephen A. Rotter[52], Carol Littleton[53]
  • Title: What Women Want[54]

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Cultural Impact

Things named for What Women Want include What Animated Women Want[55], a television series episode[56], directed by Steven Dean Moore[57].

Why It Matters

What Women Want has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[58] It is known by 35 alternative names across languages and contexts.[59]

Entities named for it include What Animated Women Want[55], a television series episode[56], directed by Steven Dean Moore[57].

References

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  35. [37] ↑ . Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  41. [43] ↑ . IMDb. Retrieved . imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  47. [49] ↑ . libguides.usc.edu. libguides.usc.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [55] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [56] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [57] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [58] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [59] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 11d ago · Alexey Vazhnov · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Depicts → advertising agency, father and daughter, teenager +1
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  2. 11d ago · Alexey Vazhnov · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Main subject → Q141699299
    Sitelink count → 47
    Wikipedia languages → ['an', 'ar', 'arz', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'es',
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  3. 7w ago · MsMorale · 2026-08-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14821 → 207201
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  4. 10w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-08-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Filmová databáze film id → 25644
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  5. 13w ago · ならちゃん · 2026-07-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14587 → 2129
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  6. 17w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikidata description → 2000 film directed by Nancy Meyers
    Publication date → +2000-12-15T00:00:00Z, +2001-02-15T00:00:00Z
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  7. 24w ago · Xezbeth · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Producer → Susan Cartsonis, Bruce Davey, Matt Williams +1
    Color → color
    Cast member → Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt, Marisa Tomei +24
    Different from → What Women Want
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