"It's messy," Carter Webb says about the world. "And it's chaotic, and it's never ever the thing you'd expect." Carter should know. Heartbroken over a smashed love affair and weary of a dismal job, he flees Los Angeles to care for his ailing grandmother in a leafy Michigan suburb - and finds what he doesn't expect: mother-and-daughter neighbors, both beautiful, and both facing crises of life, love and confidence.

Adam Brody (The O.C.'s breakout star" according to Time) makes his starring film debut as Carter, co-starring with Kristen Stewart, Meg Ryan and Olympia Dukakis in a tender film celebrating wit, romance, letting go, holding on and falling hard. What more could a young man hope to find In The Land Of Women?