By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Anthony Burns
Country: united_states
Year: 2015
Running time: 98
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2802136/combined
Kyle says: “HOME SWEET HELL is a mildly diverting dark comedy about marriage, murder and mayhem. Mona and Don Champagne (Katherine Heigl and Patrick Wilson) is seemingly the perfect modern married couple on paper. That turns out to be only one of many problems: Mona writes down every single move, including scheduling sex with Don, in a nightmarish cartoon scrapbook of daily plans and future activities. Every moment of spontaneity has been squeezed out of their relationship, rendering Don horny night and day, and ripe for picking by a new hire at his furniture store — an opportunistic looker in a plot with trailer trash lowlife to extort money for sex. Don falls hard, for her as well as her lie about pregnancy. When he decides to confess his wrongdoing to Mona, she responds with a surprise decision to murder Dusty (Jordana Brewster). One good murder deserves another. And another.
“The humor comes from the clinical precision with which Katherine Heigl determines how her life must be planned and lived, and the outrage we share with Patrick Wilson at his wife’s lack of any moral compass. But that lack seems to be a rampant disease among the various plotters, and the only cure seems to be getting rid of the miscreants. Whether you will find any of this funny (such as disposal of body parts) depends on how you react to Patrick Wilson’s confusion and Katherine Heigl’s lack of shame. The standout performance is police Chief Malcolm Brown, played hysterically by Chi McBride with the weary professionalism of a guardian of public morality who knows immediately that something rotten is going on but is not exactly sure who is doing what to whom. 3 cats
“Seen Sunday, September 6, 2015, on Starz, Time Warner Cable, New York.”