Hilarious Cable Info-Bar Description Of The Day

Posted at 12:00 PM Sep 09, 2008

By Kenny Herzog

Last week, NCDSUV debuted its newest daily feature, which takes aim at the most confounding, misleading or abruptly hysterical info-bar synopses of the day's cable programming. And while yesterday saw Deep Blue Sea get recast as the goofy tale of sharks who go all Honey, I Shrunk The Kids on their lab researchers, today we have a very special installment, straight from the collagen-enhanced mouth hole of Meg Ryan.

Today's entry is:

In The Land Of Women
The Actual Story: Spoiled man in his 20s (Adam Brody... who else?) moves in with demented grandma (Olympia Dukakis) and enters into entirely unbelievable and creepy relationships with his neighbor (Meg Ryan as an Oscar-starved, cancer-riddled mother) and her not-ready-for-prime-time teenage daughter.
Cable Info-Bar Synopsis: "After breaking up with his girlfriend, a heartbroken young man moves in with his ailing grandmother."
What Their Description Would Have You Believe: That In The Land Of Women is an earnest and heartwarming middle ground between Albert Brooks' Mother and Paul Reiser's The Thing About My Folks, in which Brody develops an only slightly creepy, but wholly moving, relationship with his family's worldly matriarch.

Stay tuned for a further analysis of In The Land Of Women in our ongoing Disasterpiece Theater series, but for now, enjoy this queasy little clip, which combines the sultry pleasures of adultery and cancer, and is only tolerable by virtue of it being hilariously overdubbed in French:

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