Early in In the Land of Women young Hollywood writer Carter Webb (Adam Brody) is gently dumped by his foreign fashion model girlfriend (Alena Enaya). She does it in a busy coffee shop so the poor schlub can't even make a scene. He just sits there looking misty-eyed and miserable as the love of his life walks away.

Next thing you know he's in suburban Michigan, ostensibly to look in on his senile, hermit-like grandmother (Olympia Dukakis) but mostly to get away from anything remotely resembling romance and heartbreak.

He's come to the wrong place.

Grandma lives across the street from an upwardly mobile family comprising a largely absent father and three women.

Sarah (Meg Ryan) is a stay-at-home mom with fulfillment issues, a philandering husband and a case of breast cancer.

Her teenage daughter Lucy (Kristen Stewart) is going through a rebellious phase (she makes snarky anti-consumer comments about having to live in a Crate and Barrel showroom). Much of her anger stems from her indecision about when and how to ease into the world of opposite-sex relationships.

Little Paige (Makenzie Vega) is one of those precious 10-going-on-30 types whose intellect is a good decade ahead of her emotions.

All three will project on the 26-year-old Carter their fears, desires, frustrations and hopes.