IMDb plot summary: Helen is the young girlfriend of good-looking Jackson Baring. When Helen gets pregnant and marries Jackson, they decide to move to his hometown and have a baby there. But his mother Martha, who lives there, starts to do weird things, and obviously she's not too friendly to Helen.
Directed by Jonathan Darby. Starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Lange, and Johnathon Schaech.
(Quite a few spoilers ahead.)
This isn't a great movie, but it's fun in a sort of over-the-top campy thriller kind of way. Gwyneth Paltrow plays a fairly intelligent protagonist, which I always enjoy, and the mother's villainous actions are subtle enough to make for a decently intelligent progression of events. I didn't care for the final scene, which was somehow both anticlimactic and overly melodramatic as the problem is resolved by... everybody just talking about the issue? I realize I'm putting a lot of caveats in this review, but I actually had a relatively good time watching it. Again, not great, but decent.
2.5 stars.
Flickchart: #1144 out of 2073, below New York, New York and above The American President.
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