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Jackson and Helen are in love and about to have their first child when they move in with Jackson's mother, Martha, in order to take care of the family estate. But all is not well in this household. Martha is jealous of her son's affection for Helen, and, despite her Southern smile, she's starting to act strangely. As Helen tries to create a happy home life, Martha attempts to divide the family so that Jackson will become hers alone.
Release : | 1998 |
Rating : | 5.5 |
Studio : | TriStar Pictures, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Production Design, |
Cast : | Jessica Lange Gwyneth Paltrow Johnathon Schaech Nina Foch Debi Mazar |
Genre : | Drama Thriller |
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Fantastic!
Best movie of this year hands down!
Absolutely Fantastic
Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
Helen is the young girlfriend of good-looking Jackson Baring. When Helen gets pregnant and marries Jackson, they decide to move to his family farm, Kilronan, 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. I don't get the bad reviews for Hush i mean Jessica Lange gives an amazing perfomance and so does Gwyneth Paltrow. Also the Ending is a breath of Fresh Air, an Ending that i didn't see coming and i'm glad that the film didn't go in a 100% horror mode with someone getting killed or at least with us think so and then coming back so we can see her get killed in some stupid way, this isn't a film that everyone will love but it's one that gets lots of hate for the dumbest reasons possible and the happy ending alongside the top notch acting makes it even a better film. (A+)
I thought this was a great suspense thriller. Both Gweneth Paltrow and Jessica Lange were fantastic. As a horse owner, I tend to nit-pick inaccurate "goofs" pertaining to the use of horses, as their usually is, but in this one, I didn't notice any. I loved the interaction with the Grandmother and one had to wonder throughout the film how the grandmother was going to portray a role in the outcome. As a woman, a Mother, a wife and who had a domineering Mother-in-law, I kept rooting for Paltrow's character to smack Lang's character and do what needed to be done, not to mention what I would have wanted to do while feeling I had to suck up to my own M.I.L. to keep a marriage intact.
This could have been so much better and is one of those movies where a lack of direction comes to the fore. Its not very suspenseful when the director is unable to build suspense, case-in- point the end where Jackson does an about turn from being the doting son to never wanting to see his mother again quicker than you could say "cut". I'm also still trying to figure out how Jackson drove from a packed Churchill Downs racecourse in Kentucky to the farm in virginia in minutes (it would take me that long to find the car in the car park)! Some good points were the ageless Jessica Lange who was fairly convincing as the evil, scheming mother and Paltrow fans will be happy to know they can use the pause button to see her in her birthday suit. No doubt, this movie is in the $5 bins at walmart by now, leave it in there, this really isn't worth your time or money.
This movie starring Jessica Lange and Gwyneth Paltrow has great talent, but the production company obviously spent all its money on the stars' salaries. A film about Kentucky Thoroughbred racing should be filmed in Kentucky, not at a show horse farm in Virginia. The Kentucky Blue Grass region is uniquely identifiable, as is Virginia horse country -- and the two are not interchangeable, even in fiction. It is like making a film about New York City in Los Angeles. Did they think no one would notice? And there are plenty of Thoroughbreds in Virginia, so why did the filmmaker try to pass off big, fat show horses as racehorses? The scene at the horse sale and all its errors are even too ridiculous to mention.The technical adviser on this film was either asleep or inept, because a scene does not pass without a glowing inaccuracy. Especially noticeable to anyone interested in horses who watches this movie (and I can't imagine anyone else would) are the dangerous ways in which the horses are handled, usually by people who are recognizable as amateurs at handling a horse. The most glaring fax pas surrounds the drug oxytocin that Jessica Lange's character removes from the cabinet: the label clearly states "erythromycin tablets." Again, did the filmmaker think no one would notice? Literary license is one thing, but this movie goes way, way beyond that and into the depths of the toilet.