She-Devil
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Movie Reviews of She-Devil
Movie Review: ROSEANNE IS A LAUGH RIOT
Summary: 5 Stars
This has to be one of my favorite movies from the 80's. Watch out, when Ruth Patchett (played by the queen of comedy Roseanne) gets ticked off she can cause a lot of damage (and laughs!!!)!! Her worthless excuse of a husband Bob (Ed Begley Jr.) is at the center of Ruth's rage in this comedy about revenge. Roseanne's character learns that she is better than whatever her no-good husband thinks of her, and she sets out to prove him wrong and learns how to start a new life along the way. Meryl Streep's (Mary Fisher) character is totally over-the-top and the perfect addition to this already campy classic. Mary Fisher is a cross between Joan Crawford and Jackie Collins.
There are so many funny scenes in this movie. Perhaps the funniest is when Bob drives Ruth home from the party in the beginning of the film. Poor Ruth has to sit in the back seat of their two-door car while Mary Fisher sits in the front next to her husband! And the bum doesn't even have the common decency to drive Ruth to the door, instead dropping her off a block away from the house! It was also a hoot when Ruth drops off the kids (Andy & Nicolette) at Miss Fisher's because "the children would like to see their father." And of course we can't forget Mary Fisher's kooky mother. Sylvia Mills plays the senior Mrs. Fisher with such comedy and finesse; Mary Fisher's mother almost takes as much joy out of wrecking Mary's perfect lifestyle as Ruth does, almost! And finally, I can't leave out the wonderful character Hooper played by Linda Hunt. Hooper is a dowdy old nurse-maid that helps Ruth start the business Vesta Rose for the harried and hopeless women of New York.
Movie Review: "Hilarious"
Summary: 5 Stars
In the late 1980's when Roseanne Barr had the number rated show in the country, movie studios were trying to get her signed to do a big feature film. Barr starred in this funny film about an ugly, overweight women who discovers her husband is having an affair with a rich romance novelist named Mary Fisher, played to perfection by Meryl Streep, who wanted to do some lighter comedy roles. The movie is funny, surprising, and filled with a great acting ensemble of first-rate actors. I never thought Streep would ever be able to play comedy, but she is hilarious in the role, especially after Ruth dumps her children off at Mary's house for the husband and mistress to raise, turning Mary's life upside down. Then, Ruth seeks revenge on both of them by trying to destroy her husband's business accounts and Mary's perfect, idealic life as an innocent high-class writer by inquiring about her past. The scene where Ruth discovers Mary's forgotten mother in an old folks home is down-right funny, especially when Ruth is told by the old woman Mary was knocked up as a teenager and gave the child up for adoption. Then the old woman loses her false teeth while laughing! A Riot! Ed Begley is great as the hunky philandering husband and soap opera star and Emmy winner A Martinez plays a handsome poolboy in Mary's employ. The film runs 1 hour and 35 minutes long and comes with the trailer. Meryl Streep was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy in 1989.Movie Review: Love This Movie Over and Again
Summary: 5 Stars
Rosanne Barr, plays Ruth Patchette, a housewife, who enjoys reading romance novels written by Mary Fisher, played by the talented Meryl Streep. When she and her husband, Bob, come across Mary accidently, things take a hilariously and adventurous turn for the wife. The writer she so idolized, is having an affair with her husband. Her husband leaves her and the children for greener pastures. Rather than feeling sorry for herself, she purposely burns down her house (a cue taken by Waiting to Exhale) and sends the children to Mary Fisher's estate to live with her and Bob.
Ruth goes off to find Mary's mother in revenge for destroying her marriage and thwarting her romantic notions of love and marriage. She sets out to a nursing home finding the Mrs. Fisher and sending her to live with Mary wreaking havoc for her ungrateful daughter and adopted family. Mary's world is no longer filled with beautiful dreams as her novels. Her dreamy world is like that of Ruth's as a dreaded wife and mother. Ruth further embarks on building a business that will help empower women and bring down her husband.
Every wife and mistress should watch "She-Devil". Rosanne's performance as a wife scorned hits close to home and Meryl's portrayal of a mistress to not expect a bed of roses and for both to not settle for less. This movie is hilarious to watch as the transformation lives are wrecked and resurrected.
Movie Review: A Dose Of Reality Is Sometimes The Best Revenge
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a movie you can watch over and over and still enjoy its karmic delights.
Meryl Streep's Mary Fisher is the too-good-to-be-true glamourous romance writer. With a flick of her perfect pink nails, she sets about stealing Ruth Patchett's none too faithful hound of a husband, Bob (probably as much for his accounting skills as anything else).
Ruth (Roseanne Barr) is quickly abandoned with 2 children and an unsure future. But that is when the "She-Devil" spark takes hold. She quickly dispenses with the family house (in a hilarious scene) and deposits the quarrelsome children and family dog with their father and his new mistress (which puts a bit of a crimp in the lovebirds' romantic idyll!) Then she sets out on an odyssey to build a new life for herself and systematically destroy Bob and Mary by shaking the skeletons out of their collective closets in the most ingenious and soul-destroying ways you can imagine. This movie is therapy.
Movie Review: The devil you say
Summary: 5 Stars
Bob Patchett (Ed Begley Jr.) is just a typical financial adviser. So naturally he wants a wife to match; he turns down his ugly, clumsy, unfeeling, existing wife, Ruth (Rosanne), for a more useful one that is a novelist Mary Fisher (Meryl Streep.) What should be a happy ever after story for the new couple turns into a nightmare. Looks like Ruth intends to get more than even; she finds out his values in order of priority (home, family, career and freedom.) then she commits her life to removing his assets in that order. Her unique approach to the task is what makes the story. However it is the action and reaction of the people that will hold your attention. Will the task be accomplished? The result may surprise you.
Ed Begley Jr. makes a good Bob, falling in to every trap set and suffering the consequences. See him again in "The Applegates" (1991). Only this time the bugs (Ed Begley Jr. is one) are set on revenge or at least survival which means removing humans.