She-Devil (1989)

That greenscreen of the house blowing up with Roseanne in the foreground is comically bad! Even for 1990.

INCONTINENCE!!!!

I’d be curious to know Meryl Streep’s dish on Roseanne from this movie. I bet she hated her and her frumpy wardrobe and facial wart.

I thought it was funny as hell. Meryl's character was a hoot.

My favorite part is that they were fighting over Ed Begley Jr.

He probably has a big dick, R5.

Linda Hunt is one of my favorite character actresses. She can do anything:

Popeye;

The Year of Living Dangerously;

The Bostonians;

Dune;

Silverado;

She-Devil;

Kindergarten Cop;

Pocahontas;

Auschwitz: The Nazis and 'The Final Solution'

Pairs well with Death Becomes Her

The tv version from earlier was so much better

R9 which one?

Take a guess

This one, r10. With everyone's favorite potty-mouthed lez, Miriam Margolyes.

I loved Meryl’s pink laptop.

A Martinez was so hot

It is funny because Ed Begley Jr. is the philandering husband.

The book - by Fay Weldon - was great. The best adaption was a British mini-series The Life and Loves of a She-Devil.

It's a mess and not very funny.

"Vesta Rose is the place for YOU!"

I'll take Patricia Hodge over Meryl Streep any day. And Roseanne can jump in the lake.

Love in the rinse cycle! The houseboy and the 'stepdaughter'. The evil mother and her trampy daughter, it almost felt like a Mommy Dearest spoof at points.

You don’t say r16. Who knew?

A Martinez is in Dark Winds now. I didn't recognize him. He looks really old.

Love the mansion by the sea

R9 knew

It’s not a good movie but it’s watchable. I thought Roseanne got better as the movie went on. It’s a fun revenge movie. It did have a terrific cast thought with Streep, Ed Begley Jr., Linda Hunt, Sylvia Miles and Mary Louise Wilson, Deborah Rush, Doris Belack and Jack Gilpin in small but memorable parts.

Love in the Rinse Cycle

Is Linda Hunt a midget or dwarf?

R27 She is a little person.

A dwarf

I love this movie.

"Up with this shit, I will not put!"

The movie that confirmed what I always suspected...Susan Seidelman was not a very good director. (DSS was a one-off).

I always mix up parts of this with Death Becomes Her. Meryl's characters and some of the story beats are similar in both

I loved the scene with Sylvia Miles, "she was a teenage tramp! She couldn't get enough!"

Parts of this are enjoyable. But compared to the British miniseries the wickedness is watered down. Meryl can be quite good at comedy, here and Death Becomes Her. Linda Hunt and Conchata Ferell were the best character actors since Thelma Ritter.

I just watched it again thanks to this thread. Like r36 says, parts are enjoyable but overall it's just average. Roseanne almost feels like a supporting character in her own movie. Linda Hunt was great but her character just disappears midway through.

On the other hand A Martinez floating in the pool in nothing but a banana hammock is one of the hottest images ever committed to celluloid

It’s a metaphor, Paula.

Trust and Betrayal: A Docu-novel of Love, Money and Skepticism

"Love Button."

Average? AVERAGE!? How fucking dare you. I grew up on this movie as a baby gay and it taught me everything I know about getting revenge.

Mainly: Always make a list so that you can have the satisfaction and drama of crossing people and things off said list as you systematically destroy them, and always do this with a straight, menacing face! Once the enemy's collapse is complete, wear all white and give yourself a glow-up to avert suspicion and to cleanse the mind of all you've just been through. You deserve it! Finally, let out all those devilish smiles you've been holding in this entire time! Now walk like an angel 😈

Campy, female-based comedies always get negative reviews - particularly from straight, white male film critics.

These films are what they are - nobody is pretending they are genius or masterpieces. They're fun, light and funny.

Meanwhile Happy Gilmore and Jim Carrey movies are held aloft as somehow so much better.

I really enjoyed this film - and thought Meryl was great in it. And she looked good.

I just watched the BBC miniseries earlier in the week and it becomes so over the top especially in the last episode I figured the author must’ve had a lot of fun writing it. I couldn’t take it seriously, but it was entertaining.

I never understood how Ed Begley Jr could be cast as anyone's love interest.

TUE FATHER WAS A KOSHER BUTCHER FROM HOBOKEN A LOVELY MAN

Hey I always enjoyed seeing his bare butt as an adolescent, R44!

He had a surprisingly nice butt, r46. But I would have rather seen A Martinez's

Meryl sounds so horny when she’s calling for A Martinez—“G-A-A-R-H-C-E-E-U-H”

This movie is so campy and fun. I love it