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Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman (2004)
From 60 MPH to 0 in five minutes
Newspaper book review editor Rose impresses her assistant Mindy in the breakneck early minutes of the film. Rose coordinates at the last minute to change the day's book review to match the today's headline: Governor takes a mistress.
Rose then she goes home to where her husband of 25 years (and her boss) sits her down for the talk: he's leaving her for his mistress (her young assistant). Then she goes to work where she learns that hubby has downsized her, but let's his assistant deliver the news.
The pace of the movie drops dramatically as Rose goes through the seven stages of divorce grief and works with hubby what's-his-name as they cope with a narcissistic daughter, the son (basically an afterthought), and their respective relationships.
Christine Lahti (Rose) does an amazing job with the lead part. However, this is your basic FUBU (for us by us) story from a female standpoint. The male characters are lame, and the female characters don't provide a very optimistic balance for the other half of the human race.
A little too harsh for Hallmark channel, not enough weapons (zero actually) to be a real revenge flick. The film concludes that revenge is an old saw: she reunites with her old boyfriend who is now an author.
Good for Rose that she moved on. Bad for us (my wife of 40 years and me). We dissected the loose threads for 15 minutes after watching and concluded that we want our two hours back.