Here's the situation: Your wife leaves you alone with three young boys, you move on with your life, you find a beautiful woman who takes care of those boys as if they are her own, your mother-in-law takes your side, but then the mother of your children returns wanting you and the kids back into her life.
Jamie Lee Curtis plays the psycho mother who beguiles her eldest son into acting as a unwitting tool in getting her back into the family and getting rid of Dad's girlfriend.
Curtis does a surprisingly good job at playing the whacked out psycho mother using her children as leverage to get the father back and reclaiming her position in the household. Curtis' character is a culmination of various real women that the screenwriter no doubt pulled from newspaper stories.
Curtis' character will stop at nothing to achieve her goals including putting her children in harm's way.
This was an excellent film and one that you don't see too often. Normally, we are shown the father as the one who plays the deranged character leaving the mother to have to defend her children. Of course, the truth is that wives/mothers demonstrate similar despicable traits and the fact that this is revealed in the film probably disturbs people in the way that feminist's were outraged by Glenn Close's character in "Fatal Attraction".
All the actors played believable roles and the suspense was quite good and to the point. This is definitely a must see for any father/husband who has had to deal with a lying deceitful wife and a justice system that automatically sympathizes with the mother, short of her being a crack-addict. I would have liked to have seen the film expose this outrageous injustice that fathers face on a daily basis. Even so, if you liked "Fatal Attraction", this film is a must see.
Jamie Lee Curtis plays the psycho mother who beguiles her eldest son into acting as a unwitting tool in getting her back into the family and getting rid of Dad's girlfriend.
Curtis does a surprisingly good job at playing the whacked out psycho mother using her children as leverage to get the father back and reclaiming her position in the household. Curtis' character is a culmination of various real women that the screenwriter no doubt pulled from newspaper stories.
Curtis' character will stop at nothing to achieve her goals including putting her children in harm's way.
This was an excellent film and one that you don't see too often. Normally, we are shown the father as the one who plays the deranged character leaving the mother to have to defend her children. Of course, the truth is that wives/mothers demonstrate similar despicable traits and the fact that this is revealed in the film probably disturbs people in the way that feminist's were outraged by Glenn Close's character in "Fatal Attraction".
All the actors played believable roles and the suspense was quite good and to the point. This is definitely a must see for any father/husband who has had to deal with a lying deceitful wife and a justice system that automatically sympathizes with the mother, short of her being a crack-addict. I would have liked to have seen the film expose this outrageous injustice that fathers face on a daily basis. Even so, if you liked "Fatal Attraction", this film is a must see.