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  • Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Lange
  • Summary: An intricate, intense thriller about a young bride (Paltrow) who becomes the emotional pawn of her controlling mother-in-law (Lange). (Sony)
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  1. Positive: 0 out of 14
  2. Negative: 12 out of 14
  1. 50
    The kind of movie where you walk in, watch the first 10 minutes, know exactly where it's going, and hope devoutly that you're wrong.
  2. [Lange] does give the movie the only excitement it possesses -- the frisson of a hideous thrill -- but it's still an excruciating embarrassment.
  3. 38
    This trashy, overwrought thriller gets itself worked up into a fine, sleazy lather that recalls the matricidal glories "Die! Die! My Darling!" and "You'll Like My Mother", then wimps out at the end.
  4. 38
    t's far too soon for an actress as vital as Jessica Lange to stoop to Bette Davis-Joan Crawford horror-hag histrionics. [6 Mar 1998, pg.04D]

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