(2009-US) d Cheryl Hines (Comedy)
Stars Meg Ryan (Louise), Timothy Hutton (Ian), Kristen Bell (Sara), Justin Long (Todd), Cop (Andy Ostroy)
After she arrives at her country home for a romantic weekend getaway, things don't go exactly as planned for high-powered Manhattan lawyer Louise (Meg Ryan): Her husband of 13 years, Ian (Timothy Hutton), tells her he's leaving her for a younger woman (Kristen Bell). Soon Ian finds himself held captive by an oddly cool Louise, who explains that she won't release him until he commits to working on their marriage. And that's when things really start to go wrong. The unexpected arrival of an opportunistic young gardener (Justin Long) and Ian's impatient mistress only serve to complicate the crisis even further, while somehow forcing Louise and Ian to reckon with their past and realistically deal with their future.
There is a lot of "duct tape" in this movie!!! Ian gets tied to a chair, escapes, gets hit over the head with something at the door, and then he gets "duct taped" to the toilet seat. A majorit of this movie takes place in the bathroom!
Overall this film is very unbelievable. Meg Ryan plays a psychotic wife who does everything within her power to not let her husband leave. At the end there is a bit of a twist where the couple walks through the town and she winks knowingly to the young gardener making you wonder if she planned the whole thing, including the robbery, and it got out-of-hand from what she had initially signed up for. Although that was an interesting twist at the end, not everyone got it (until discussed afterwards).
I would not waste my money seeing this one (again!) Perhaps if, instead of Meg Ryan it was the actress that ties some guy to a bed (forget the name of that movie) - I may have liked it better. Meg Ryan usually does not play a psychotic person in movies, and it ruins my image of her as a kind, gentle soul.
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