Woman On Top

Bright, bubbly and thoroughly inconsequential, this formulaic romantic comedy rests firmly on the slender shoulders of Spanish actress Penelope Cruz, in her first English-language starring role. Cursed by motion sickness, Brazilian beauty Isabella Oliviera (Cruz) must always be in control: in the car, on the dance floor, in bed...everywhere. Her macho husband Toninho (Murilo Benicio) puts up with Isabella's headstrong ways for three years — after all, it's her inspired cooking that makes his restaurant an instant hit — but eventually rebels and cheats on her with a more compliant cutie. The devastated Isabella decamps for San Francisco, where her o...