Home Sweet Hell

3/13/20151h 38m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Psycho Wife. Unhappy Life. ~

Overview:

Don Champagne seems to have it all, but when his wife, Mona, learns of his affair with a pretty new salesgirl, she will stop at nothing to maintain their storybook life.

Director:

Anthony Burns

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$3,000,000.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

wife
routine
dark comedy
orderly
workplace
suburbia
control
extramarital affair
perfectionist
storybook
salesgirl
perfect life
married with children
business owner
life goals
furniture store
controlling wife

Cast

Katherine Heigl

~ as ~

Mona Champagne

Patrick Wilson

~ as ~

Don Champagne

Madison Wolfe

~ as ~

Allison Champagne

Aiden Flowers

~ as ~

Andrew Champagne

Jordana Brewster

~ as ~

Dusty

Jim Belushi

~ as ~

Les

A.J. Buckley

~ as ~

Murphy

Kevin McKidd

~ as ~

Freeman

Artie Baxter

~ as ~

Mark

Johnny Hawkes

~ as ~

Stu

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Reviews (2)

Reno
Written 10 year(s) ago
6

A man's mistake fixed by his wife with a pleasure.

The latest dark comedy, which has the two inconsistent actors in the lead. Well, I liked their performance, they competed each others to steal the show in their unique characters. I enjoyed watching it in parts, but frankly I am disappointed for this potential theme was misused for ineffectual narration.

Looks like inspired by 'Serial Mom'. When a little, strange but a happy family who are living by the storybook of their own was threatened by the dark side of the life, they are ready to jump into the hell to save it. They have ignited it, but the only concern is how to end it all for good.

Other than IMDb where it stands average, the movie was slammed very badly by the critics and moviegoers. I have seen even worse than this one. So to me it is an average except the end, otherwise below average. Yes, the conclusion was terrible, seems like they don't want a continuation. I mean they wanted to end it all here itself. It is a watchable, but simply not the best one.

6/10
Kamurai
Written 5 year(s) ago
7
Really good watch, would watch again and can recommend.

Sometimes, it's important to watch movies with actors of which you're less of a fan. It lowers your expectations and reminds you of their true, objective acting talent.

This is a very interesting watch on the real life symptoms and side effects of sociopathy and/or repressed psychopathy. It's the time of psych thriller that is scary because it could be happening to you in your own home. It doesn't mean you're stupid / not perceptive or they're super smart / devious. It just means that they're (at least) slightly more calculated than you.

There is a slew of metaphors in here from equals in a relationship to the upper class lording over their lessers, but there is a pivotal moment where they could have expressly made it about men vs women, and it (very obviously) did not turn down that road.

Really, if you like pysch thrillers, put this in your queue, I think you'll enjoy it.