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Summary: For those in search of laugh-out-loud fun, this is the one!
Review: Not every movie has to take itself seriously to be highly entertaining--and this is one at the top of that category. I dare anyone to watch it and not find plenty of amusing scenes to laugh out loud over. As expected from an actress of her talent, Meryl Streep is wonderful in her role as "Mary Fisher," queen of the romance novel writing genre. Opposite her, Roseanne Barr does a great job in her staring role as the clutzy, unappreciated wife, Ruth, who loses her husband to Ms. Fisher's charms, yet manages to get the last laugh by movie's end. Indeed, all the players in this hilarious tale add their part to make this one of my favorite comedies ever. I've watched it more than a few times, and can't help but howl with laughter. My favorite cast member is A Martinez, who turns a splendid comic turn as the butler, Garcia. In one scene, he buzzes up in a golf cart to deliver bottles of Yoohoo on a silver tray at tea time, thoroughly embarassing Meryl Streep's haughty character right during an interview for a magazine. With every nuance, pose, and facial expression he injects something special and really makes the most of his role. Truly, every scene in which he appears is purely delightful. If you find yourself in need of laughter on an otherwise ho hum day, watch this movie! I highly recommend it!!
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Summary: For those in search of laugh-out-loud fun, this is the one!
Review: Not every movie has to take itself seriously to be highly entertaining--and this is one at the top of that category. I dare anyone to watch it and not find plenty of amusing scenes to laugh out loud over. As expected from an actress of her talent, Meryl Streep is wonderful in her role as "Mary Fisher," queen of the romance novel writing genre. Opposite her, Roseanne Barr does a great job in her staring role as the clutzy, unappreciated wife, Ruth, who loses her husband to Ms. Fisher's charms, yet manages to get the last laugh by movie's end. Indeed, all the players in this hilarious tale add their part to make this one of my favorite comedies ever. I've watched it more than a few times, and can't help but howl with laughter. My favorite cast member is A Martinez, who turns a splendid comic turn as the butler, Garcia. In one scene, he buzzes up in a golf cart to deliver bottles of Yoohoo on a silver tray at tea time, thoroughly embarassing Meryl Streep's haughty character right during an interview for a magazine. With every nuance, pose, and facial expression he injects something special and really makes the most of his role. Truly, every scene in which he appears is purely delightful. If you find yourself in need of laughter on an otherwise ho hum day, watch this movie! I highly recommend it!!
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Summary: Love This Movie Over and Again
Review: 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.
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Summary: BOB'S ASSETS "HOME, FAMILY, CAREER, FREEDOM
Review: ROSANNE WAS ABSOLUTLEY MARVELOUS IN THIS MOVIE. SHE IS AN UNATTRACTIVE HOUSEWIFE WHO SEEKS REVENGE ON HER UNFAITHFUL HUBBY. SUCCESSFULLY DESTROYING HIS MOST IMPORTANT ASSETS HOME, FAMILY, CAREER, FREEDOM. MERYL STREEP WAS A WINNER IN HER SNOBBISH ROLE AS A BOOK WRITER. THIS IS A MUST HAVE FOR ROSEANNE FANS YOU WILL LAUGH AND CHEER AS THEY SAY " SWEET REVENGE IS A MOTHA"
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Summary: dark comedy that makes you feel good!
Review: Roseanne Arnold is a very good actreess, when all is said and done. She does well with her portrayal of Ruth, an overweight mustachioed wronged wife who decides to get back at her cheating husband. Bob has just left Ruth for mary Fisher, a thin rich glamorous writer of Ruth's favorite romance novels. Ruth doesn't want Bob back, she just wants to get back at him. Bob, an accountant, yells at Ruth that she is his only liability, and his assets are his home, family, career and freedom. Armed with this list, Ruth goes after all of his assets while simultaneously building up her own life and self-esteem. Fans of the defunct soap opera "Santa Barbara" will enjoy watching A Martinex aka Cruz Castillo as Mary's eschewed boytoy butler Garcia. He does comedy well!
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Summary: wacky comedy
Review: Roseanne Barr and Meryl Streep battle it out in the wacky comedy SHE-DEVIL. Mary Fisher (Streep) is a romance novelist who lives in a pink palace by the sea. Ruth Patchett (Barr) is a frumpy housewife with a bad attitude. They have one thing in common - Bob( Ed Begley Jr) - Mary's lover and Ruth's husband! Ruth decides to get even with her louse of a spouse, so she blows up the house, and frames Bob for embezzlement. Along the way Ruth also digs up Mary's mother in a decaying nursing home, and decides a "family reunion" is needed....! Based on the novel "The Life and Loves of the She-Devil" by Fay Weldon, this is a charming film. If you loved DEATH BECOMES HER you will flip over SHE-DEVIL. Also starring Linda Hunt and Sylvia Miles.
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Summary: Funny Revenge Thriller
Review: Roseanne Barr plays Ruth Patchette. A worn-out housewife who desperatly wants a new and better life. She's not too surprized when she finds out her husband was cheating on her with a rich, snotty romance novelist (Meryl Streep). And when she can't stand his bickering anymore about how she is not good enough for the family, she does all of the hazardous things with appliances that you're not supposed to do, for example, puts aresol cans in the microwave, knives in the blender, overloads circuts, starts a fire. Resulting in the house blowing up. She then begins sweet-revenge on her unfaithful husband and his new woman. I don't blame her.
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Summary: Amusing, But not Too Creative
Review: She Devil portrays the tale of a man married to an ugly woman he married solely because she was pregnant. Her husband, an accountant, lives a middle-aged life with two kids, a boy and a girl, and is attempting to move up in the socioeconomic scale. He obviously married the wrong woman, however, because they do not appear to have much in common and he is not physically attracted to her. So, on mere happenstance, he bumps into a famous romance novelist at a party, greets her, and discovers that they both have something in common -- perhaps intelligence, in him, and beauty in her. His wife, the slob, an imbecile, makes the mistake of making the romance novelist's dress dirty. It was an accident. The husband decides to take the romance novelist home. He takes her home and they both make love. There is love from the start. His wife notices things are wrong quite quickly. First, although the husband was supposed to take the romance novelist home, he did not come home until the morning. Second, he appears far more happy than he normally does. So he comes to the conclusion that a divorce is necessary, and he goes through with it. He lives with the romance novelist for a while, but things get ugly: and here's the main part of the story. The wife tries to ruin his life in any way that she can. She takes away his employment, his new girlfriend, and takes away his freedom. This is a tale about love and what happens when someone becomes jealous of your love. Someone can very well destroy your love by trying to wreck it through manipulation; by ruining one's reputation; and by confusing people you depend on for economic assistant. A simple plot, but a very important story.
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Summary: Amusing, But not Too Creative
Review: She Devil portrays the tale of a man married to an ugly woman he married solely because she was pregnant. Her husband, an accountant, lives a middle-aged life with two kids, a boy and a girl, and is attempting to move up in the socioeconomic scale. He obviously married the wrong woman, however, because they do not appear to have much in common and he is not physically attracted to her. So, on mere happenstance, he bumps into a famous romance novelist at a party, greets her, and discovers that they both have something in common -- perhaps intelligence, in him, and beauty in her. His wife, the slob, an imbecile, makes the mistake of making the romance novelist's dress dirty. It was an accident. The husband decides to take the romance novelist home. He takes her home and they both make love. There is love from the start. His wife notices things are wrong quite quickly. First, although the husband was supposed to take the romance novelist home, he did not come home until the morning. Second, he appears far more happy than he normally does. So he comes to the conclusion that a divorce is necessary, and he goes through with it. He lives with the romance novelist for a while, but things get ugly: and here's the main part of the story. The wife tries to ruin his life in any way that she can. She takes away his employment, his new girlfriend, and takes away his freedom. This is a tale about love and what happens when someone becomes jealous of your love. Someone can very well destroy your love by trying to wreck it through manipulation; by ruining one's reputation; and by confusing people you depend on for economic assistant. A simple plot, but a very important story.
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Summary: Masterful Dark Comedy Starring The Great Roseanne Barr
Review: She-Devil is among the few dark comedies that gained popularity in the late 80's early 90's period. It has been closely associated with such classics as Zemeckis' Death Becomes Her and War Of The Roses starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny Devito). She Devil is based on a novel by the same name. Roseanne Barr stars as the irrepressible Ruth Patchett, Ed Begley Jr as her cheating husband and a delightful Meryl Streep as his mistress romance novelist Mary Fisher. The captivating premise revolves around Ruth's plot to exact revenge on her unfaithful husband. We are generally sympathetic with her (or at least I was when I saw the film) because she truly does not deserve such a fallible and inconsiderate husband especially after being good to him and raising his children. Roseanne steals the show as she takes revenge step by step straight out of her list of wicked deeds. The script and dialogue is witty and packed with humor. Memorable characters further enhance this black comedy, characters such as Mary Fisher's elderly mother who dislikes her daughter for selfishly shutting her out of her life and putting her in the care of an old folks home to which she later avenges by blabbing to a sleazy tabloid that Mary Fisher was a promiscious woman. Ed Begley Jr. is quite good as the cheating husband who later tires of living with his mistress/mother to his kids replacement Mary Fisher and takes on a new mistress his own office secretary. He is involved in fraudulent scams and eventually Ruth makes it possible for him to be imprisoned. He does seem to have learned his lesson by the end of the film. You will like this enjoyable comedy with suspenseful and dark sounding music (there is even a section whose notes resemble the Night On Bald Mountain by Mussorgsky and the concluding Elvis song Devil in Disguise with the thematic lines that best describe Ruth....''She walks like an angel, she talks like an angel..but she's the Devil in disguise". Also noteworthy is the strong message at the end which seems to be about empowerment of women..closing scene has Roseanne walking down a street with a tremendous crowd of women.. no doubt women who have taken upon themselves to take charge of their lives and refused to be victimized (by cheating husbands, failed marriages, abuse, what have u. This is a great film and among my favorites.
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