History Film / TheOtherWoman2014

New York City lawyer Carly Whitten (Diaz) starts a relationship with the handsome businessman Mark King (Creator/NikolajCosterWaldau), only to discover that he is already married to Kate (Mann). Carly and Kate, initially mutually horrified to find out about each other form an unlikely friendship, later joined by Mark's ''other'' mistress Amber (Upton). Even as they learn that he constantly and shamelessly flirts with every attractive woman he meets, they also discover he's ''committing international fraud'' in his wife's name, warping the ideas that ''she'' gave him, which could result in ''her'' going to jail rather than him.

* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: Amber, Carly and Kate respectively. One trailer even calls them the brains, the brawn and the bod.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Mark. It's one thing to cheat on his wife with two other women, [[spoiler:plus a possible third in the Bahamas,]] but Carly's legal expertise uncovers he intended to ''[[FrameUp frame her]]'' for embezzling money from all the companies his company had helped develop. [[spoiler:Towards the end, the women return all the money to those Mark defrauded, sparing both him and Kate prison time, then he is fired, and Kate, after divorcing him, takes over his position in the company.]]
* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: The girls give Mark some pretty nasty punishments before they twig to the full picture. Thanks to him turning out to commit international fraud in his wife's name he deserves it. While it's quite unfair of the audience to laugh ''before'' finding this out, [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality the film doesn't treat it this way]].
* EthicalSlut: Carly appears to at least consider herself this, as while she has a reputation for dating several guys at once in the past- apparently she once dated a "hot rabbi" and his cousin- she is put out to learn that Mark is married.

* TheGenericGirl: Amber gets far less character focus than either Carly or Kate. Apart from her looks and youth there doesn't seem to be much more to her than an upbeat, likable and attractive gal.
* GeniusDitz: Kate is ''very'' flaky, almost to DumbBlonde levels but she is apparently a whiz at coming up with business ideas, although she doesn't realise how good they are. Mark tells her they won't work, then uses them himself.
* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Lydia is unbothered at first when Carly tells her she found out Mark was married using her own love life as an example of this. Both she and her current husband Stan were married when they met, they entered an affair with each other because they weren’t happy and now they are. However she helps get back at Mark at the end, presumably after discovering their situation isn’t the same since Mark is also seeing multiple other women at the same time and set his wife up to go to jail in place of him.

* HateSink: Mark is a serial liar and an adulterer who is cheating on his wife with multiple mistresses, all of which he lies too by claiming to be inlove with them and seeing even more women behind their backs. He also embezzles money from companies he starts up and made his wife the CEO of them all so if it’s discovered she gets arrested instead of him.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Carly is very sarcastic and has a cynical streak, and is pretty aloof at first towards Kate. However she soon turns out to be a genuinely good-hearted woman and a loyal friend.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Mark cheats on his wife (who he was very controlling and manipulative towards) with multiple women, embezzles companies he starts and sets his wife up to take the fall for him if it’s discovered. At the end his wife divorces him (taking the house) thanks to his mistresses help, he looses all his money from it getting returned, he is fired from his job for his crimes, and he gets his car towed (because he parked in a red space) before being punched by the father of one of his mistresses.

%% ** [[spoiler:A possible fourth with a raven-haired woman would've taken place for Mark in the bahamas as the other three women followed him down there.]]

* NiceMeanAndInBetween: {{Downplayed}} since the three women are all reasonably kind individuals, but Amber would be the Nice as the clueless but bubbly one of the trio, Carly would be the Mean as the most sardonic and most cynical of the group, and Kate would be the In-Between as she's generally nice but also overly dependent, emotionally immature and somewhat pushy.

'''Kate:''' Okay, but when you sleep with that many people, it's not a mistake honey. It's pathological.\\

* TokenEvilTeammate: Carly's assistant Lydia, played strictly for comedy. Not only is she decidedly amoral in her romantic life she laughs with delight [[spoiler: as Mark walks through a glass wall, getting badly scratched in the process. Note that Carly, Kate and Amber - who unlike Lydia all have a legitimate grievance with Mark - are visibly shocked and shaken at Mark injuring himself; they've dosed him with things that cause his hair to come out, swell up his nipples female-style and make him... well... shit himself, but they draw the line at physical violence, Amber's suggestion they kick him in the balls notwithstanding.]]

Not to be confused with the Creator/NataliePortman film, Film/TheOtherWoman2009.

''The Other Woman'' is a 2014 Comedy-Drama film starring Creator/CameronDiaz, Creator/LeslieMann and Creator/KateUpton.