Jennifer Westfeldt

Looking Back at 2012: Some of Our Favorite Pieces of the Year

Looking back over the last year we are some of our favorite and buzz worthy pieces that ran on the site.  We think they are a great overview of what went on for women in and around Hollywood in 2012.

'Friends With Kids' Director Jennifer Westfeldt Developing HBO Series

While “Kissing Jessica Stein” helmer Jennifer Westfeldt’s recent “Friends With Kids” was more of a “conventional look at unconventional relationships” than we had hoped for according to our review, we can’t deny that the writer-director consistently pr...

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Hollywood Feminists of the Day: Chris O'Dowd and Jon Hamm - The Guys from Friends with Kids

It's not very often that I think about a movie several weeks after I've seen it, but I have had Friends with Kids on my mind.  The more I think about it, the more I like it.  It's just an adult film that's funny.  One that Hollywood rarely makes anymore and when it doe...

Interview with Jennifer Westfeldt - Writer and Director of Friends With Kids

I think women should support each other's work, encourage each other's work, help develop each other's voices and I think, ultimately, when we can stop having the conversation about 'women filmmakers', and just talk about 'filmmakers', then we'll know we've really gotten somewhere.

Friends With Kids - Written and Directed by Jennifer Westfeldt

What's interesting about Friends with Kids is that Jennifer Westfeldt has the skills to make a film feel subversive and mainstream at the same time.  The story she tells (which she also produces and directs) is about best friends who want a kid even though they haven't found the partner...

Friends With Kids—movie review

I became an instant fan of Jennifer Westfeldt after seeing the film she co-wrote and starred in, Kissing Jessica Stein, just over a decade ago. For her debut feature as director, writer, and star, she has assembled a powerhouse cast, and devised a comedy (with dramatic undertones) that manages to be...

Jennifer Westfeldt On Her Accidental Directing Debut, 'Friends With Kids'

"Kissing Jessica Stein" co-scribe and star Jennifer Westfeldt is back with another New York-centric romantic comedy, "Friends With Kids" (opening this Friday). This time, she also directed it -- though that wasn't her intent.

Trailer Watch: Friends With Kids Written and Directed by Jennifer Westfeldt