What Women Want
He has the power to hear everything women are thinking. Finally... a man is listening.
Advertising executive Nick Marshall is as cocky as they come, but what happens to a chauvinistic guy when he can suddenly hear what women are thinking?Nick gets passed over for a promotion, but after an accident enables him to hear women's thoughts, he puts his newfound talent to work against Darcy, his new boss, who seems to be infatuated with him.
- Director
- Nancy Meyers
- Worldwide
- $374M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
Story overview
What It's About
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Advertising executive Nick Marshall is as cocky as they come, but what happens to a chauvinistic guy when he can suddenly hear what women are thinking? Nick gets passed over for a promotion, but after an accident enables him to hear women's thoughts, he puts his newfound talent to work against Darcy, his new boss, who seems to be infatuated with him.
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Box Office & Release
What Women Want returned 5.3× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $70M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $374M
- Release date
- Dec 15, 2000
- Runtime
- 2h 7m
- MPAA rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English, French
- Country
- United States of America
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