Cashing on the success of Black Swan, IFC Films is planning a release of The Other Woman next month. Natalie Portman stars in the drama originally titled Love and Impossible Pursuits, based off Ayelet Waldman‘s novel. Directed and adapted by Don Roos (Bounce, Happy Endings) and co-starring Lisa Kudrow, Daisy Tahan, and Lauren Ambrose, the film premiered at Toronto International Film Festival back in 2009. We have the first trailer below via Yahoo and poster via Vulture.

It all has a very been-there-done-that vibe, and with better-looking films like Rabbit Hole covering similar territory, this doesn’t exactly grab me. I did get a chance to see an early screening of Natalie Portman’s other January release, No Strings Attached, and for a romantic-comedy it isn’t half-bad. At least we have that, Thor, and Your Highness to look forward to in Portman’s 2011 filmography.

Synopsis: The radiant Natalie Portman (CLOSER, BLACK SWAN) lights up the screen in this frank, funny, and heart-wrenching adaptation of bestselling author Ayelet Waldman’s novel about life, loss, and family directed by Don Roos (THE OPPOSITE OF SEX, HAPPY ENDINGS).

Emilia (Portman) is a Harvard law school graduate and a newlywed, having just married Jack (Scott Cohen, THE UNDERSTUDY), a high-powered New York lawyer, who was her boss – and married – when she began working at his law firm. Unfortunately, her life takes an unexpected turn when Jack and Emilia lose their newborn daughter. Emilia struggles through her grief to connect with her new stepson William (Charlie Tahan, I AM LEGEND), but is finding it hard to connect with this precocious child. Perhaps the most difficult obstacle of all for Emilia is trying to cope with the constant interferences of her husband’s angry, jealous ex-wife, Carolyn (Lisa Kudrow).

IFC will release the film on demand January 1st, and then limited theaters on February 4th.

What do you think of the trailer and poster?

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