I assume that the majority of people were not aware that Meryl Streep and Roseanne Barr made a movie together. This one time event occured in 1989 in the form of "She-Devil," directed by Susan Seidelman. The movie also stars Ed Begley Jr. Roseanne Barr and Ed Begley Jr play Ruth and Bob Patchett. Bob decides he's going to leave Ruth for a famous, wealthy romance novelist, Mary Fisher (Meryl Streep). This of course completely screwed up his whole family and he eventually starts cheating on Mary Fisher. Well anyways, Ruth doesn't like the whole homewrecking thing that is going on, so she makes the executive decision to make Bob's life a living hell, by taking away his self-proclaimed Four Assets of Life: His home, family, career, and freedom. This all starts when she burns the family house down and continues throughout the remainder of the movie. So I was very curious how this movie was going to turn out. I love Meryl Streep and Roseanne Barr so I had to give it a try, and honestly it wasn't that bad. Roseanne is very funny, as usual, and was perfect as a wife taking revenge on her unfaithful husband. Ed Begley Jr played a horrible excuse for a man and got just about everything he deserved. Meryl Streep proved that she is extremely capable of doing comedy and has several funny scenes during the movie. She was great as the homewrecker, who slowly goes crazy as her idylic life life unravels. The movie is overall very dark and everything is complimented by a great Howard Shore score, which adds to the dark tone. This movie is very strange and has gotten mostly bad reviews...and those of you who do not like Meryl Streep or Roseanne Barr would really have no logical reason to see the movie. However, I personally found it definitely entertaining and the two lead actresses made it worth it...and I watched it on Youtube so I didn't put any money down. If you're curious....give it a try...and yeah I got to say that that poster probably would not want to make people see it...
-Joseph Sbrilli
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