It stars Rosie Perez, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Patti LuPone, Karen Duffy, Diego Serrano, and Wendell Pierce.

When her pregnancy is leaked to Eddie on air, Grace's boss Joan turns it into the subject of the talk show in order to drum up ratings.

Madeline, a mother of three who is married to Roy, interviews for a job at the show, seeking a return to work after time away raising her family.

On Lily's first birthday, Eddie is in Los Angeles filming an action movie, so his mother and mother-in-law are helping with party festivities.

On January 29 a week later, it was the opening feature for the series "The Feminine Eye: Twenty Years of Women's Cinema" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

The series included films such as Sally Potter's Orlando, Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust, Euzhan Palcy's Sugar Cane Alley, Jane Campion's Sweetie, Claire Denis's Chocolat, Agnieszka Holland's Angry Harvest, and Barbara Kopple's American Dream.

He wrote, "The 24 Hour Woman is a message picture wrapped inside a screwball comedy, with a touch of satire aimed at TV talk shows.

Yet observations of such things as Grace hooked up to a breast pump or a woman's comment that she enjoyed work because at least 'no one threw food around' lend the film a reality that's hard to mistake.

[4] The Film Journal's Kevin Lally wrote "The 24 Hour Woman is a movie of modest ambitions, but it does reflect a very real dilemma in this era where worth, for both sexes, is often measured by career achievement.

Savoca and producer husband Richard Guay's script never strays from the theme of job vs. children, so it feels more like a high-concept sitcom than a movie.

"[5] Merle Bertrand wrote in Film Threat that "Perez, equal parts spitfire and cuddly kitten, is dynamite as Grace while the soothing, almost motherly Jean-Baptiste is her perfect foil.

[1] However, she criticized the ending as too neatly resolved and said the film's "use of supporting characters as straw men and women also robs the story of life".

[1] She concluded, "In leaping from the real world to an idealized one, The 24-Hour Woman loses track of its most important thought about mixing work and parenthood.