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Enough
Columbia Pictures / Sony Pictures Entertainment

Enough reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 25 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
5.3 out of 10
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for intense scenes of domestic violence, some sensuality and language

Starring Jennifer Lopez, Bill Campbell, Juliette Lewis, Dan Futterman, Chris Maher, Noah Wyle, and Ruben Madera

An abused wife (Lopez) is forced to go on the run with her 5-year-old daughter to escape her obsessive husband (Campbell). She toughens herself mentally and physically and sets out to prove to him that she's had enough. (Sony)


GENRE(S): Suspense/Thriller  
WRITTEN BY: Nicholas Kazan  
DIRECTED BY: Michael Apted  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: October 8, 2002 
Video: October 8, 2002 
Theatrical: May 24, 2002 
RUNNING TIME: 111 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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75
San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
It's the most tension-producing movie out there right now -- in the best way, it's almost unbearable.
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70
Washington Post Ann Hornaday
Even the most hard-hearted critic will let out a sisterhood-is-powerful whoop.
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67
Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones
The senseless violence of a Jean-Claude Van Dammer, no point to that, but this, this has purpose. This is an ass-kicking a girl can get into. So why do I feel like crying mea culpa?
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63
Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
One of those movies that starts like a house afire, catches you firmly in its narrative grip and then suddenly blows itself out, not really going out with a whimper but with a big, bad, ludicrous bang.
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50
ReelViews James Berardinelli
Enough is Apted at his most commercial, and, unfortunately, his least compelling.
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50
Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Delivers the kind of vengeance fantasy women unhappy with their husbands may want: Vicarious satisfaction, however clumsily delivered, is better than no satisfaction at all. Just be sure to stop by the lobotomy clinic en route to the theater.
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50
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
There's only one place that a movie like this one can possibly be heading, and that's to a demagogic blowout of violent, femme-power payback. Enough gets there by way of far too many tedious detours.
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50
Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
At this point in her career, Lopez can clearly bend the universe -- but no amount of bending can make Enough anything more than formulaic.
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40
Village Voice Michael Atkinson
Campbell is the movie's primary power source. His steely gaze and overbearing quietude are forever tainted; "Once and Again" doesn't stand a chance in Lifetime reruns.
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40
Variety Robert Koehler
The latest model in the recent spate of underwhelming female star vehicles, Enough, a thriller detailing how a good wife gets back at an evil, possessive husband, is never provocative enough to generate strong emotional response.
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38
Boston Globe Renee Graham
Shamelessly exploits the horror of domestic violence for melodramatic, cheap thrills.
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38
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
It's surprising to see a director like Michael Apted and an actress like Jennifer Lopez associated with such tacky material.
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38
Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
Manipulates the audience.
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38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
When a movie ostensibly on a serious subject is so God-awful silly, is it impossible to be offended, or impossible not to be?
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38
USA Today Claudia Puig
Too much. The hackneyed story about an affluent damsel in distress who decides to fight her bully of a husband is simply too overdone.
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38
New York Post Jonathan Foreman
One of those "Lifetime"-esque horror stories of evil husbands in the suburbs.
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33
Portland Oregonian Kim Morgan
Taking the film as a thriller, it's neither exciting nor scary, hampered by a middle that plays much too long.
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30
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
There's some fun to be had in seeing two of TV's resident sweetie pies, Campbell and ER's Noah Wyle, play unrepentant sons of bitches, but it's not enough.
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30
New Times (L.A.) Luke Y. Thompson
You probably saw this film the last time around, when it was called "Sleeping With the Enemy." This one merely adds a better car chase and more ass-kicking.
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30
The New York Times Stephen Holden
In the end you have to wonder why the highly reputed director Michael Apted ("Coal Miner's Daughter") and the gifted screenwriter Nicholas Kazan ("Reversal of Fortune") chose to go slumming in territory like this. They must have been offered wads of money to do the dirty job.
25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak
So poorly constructed and so elementally banal that it's a shock the script was written by the same guy (Nicholas Kazan) who wrote such taut thrillers as "At Close Range" and "Reversal of Fortune."
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25
New York Daily News Jack Mathews
This particular script is deplorable. It's a pure cribbing of Ron Bass' screenplay for "Sleeping With the Enemy," which was no prize itself.
25
Miami Herald Connie Ogle
It's a cannibalization of "Sleeping With the Enemy," a not-so-good Julia Roberts film, with a ridiculous female-empowerment subtext and a relentlessly stupid script that goes nowhere you can't predict before the opening credits roll.
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20
Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Say the word, girl (Lopez), the next time you're offered one of these barrel scrapers: Enough!
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20
Film Threat David Grove
Enough is a very bad film and so was “Sleeping with the Enemy,” but at least that film had a first act.
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10
Los Angeles Times Jan Stuart
Lacking a real actress, director Michael Apted is called upon to fudge the facts and make Slim's ordeal as taut as possible. He gets the job done, but the suspense scenes have a generic fright-by-numbers feel that tell us he's wearing his professional hat and knows it.
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10
LA Weekly Paul Malcolm
Mechanical revenge fantasy that skirts every serious issue it raises along a slick, cynical trajectory.
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10
The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
In one respect at least, the film's idiocy works for Lopez: Every diva needs at least one camp classic on her résumé, and with Enough, she's scored a howler on the level of "Mommie Dearest."
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0
Salon.com Charles Taylor
I think you'd have to be comatose or mentally incompetent not to find Enough ludicrous.
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0
Washington Post Desson Thomson
In terms of actual social conscience, the movie gets a demagogic, rabble-rousing F. It also gets a failed grade for honest writing.
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0
New York Magazine Peter Rainer
Clumsy, obvious, preposterous, the movie will likely set the cause of woman warriors back decades.
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0
Chicago Reader Staff (Not Credited)
More interested in standard thriller effects than in giving us human beings to contend with. The audience I saw this with seemed to want to feel insulted, and this piece of crap delivered.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 5.3 (out of 10) based on 29 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Vania J. gave it a10:
i love this movie. i like when the fighting scenes come up and i like the way slim takes care of her kid.

frankie gave it an8:
Very impowering, liked the movie alot.

Sam D. gave it a6:
No its not the best movie, nor the best acting, but the message is still strong; enough is enough. Aimee Mann's re-written "Today's the Day" (titled "Enough" in the credits) is incredibly beautiful, that gave my score of the movie an extra point.

Axel L. gave it a0:
I do love that beautiful song by Aimee Mann somewhere during the middle of the film that woke me up for three or four minutes.

christian g. gave it a10:
This is the best movie of the year! jennifer rulz!

Saer A. gave it an 8:
Enough wasn't so bad. I liked it. It had a bit of terror in it, but that's ok. The movie had action and a lot of J Lo.

Bibi M. gave it an 8:
It's on my list of the best thriller movies I have seen.

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