Sexy but unstable wife and mother Jude (Jamie Lee Curtis) walked out on her family three years ago. Now, just as suddenly, she is back. But her husband, Robert (Peter Gallagher), has fallen in love with Callie (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer), an assistant principal at his sons' school. He asks Jude for a divorce. She responds by trying to turn her three boys against Callie, then by slashing herself and blaming her rival and finally by drawing her 12-year-old, Kes (Luke Edwards), into a murderous plot.
Mothers Boy's is a ludicrously involving thriller led by Jamie Lee Curtis, giving a fantastic performance as the ice-cold, bitter ex-wife Jude. Helmed by Yves Simoneau, this psychological thriller makes Curtis look like the most ominous spiderwoman ever to spin a web of doom around an all-American family. She is shown dressed in black, furiously puffing on a cigarette. With her sharp features and deep-set eyes, Ms. Curtis is certainly threatening.
The key to her campaign is her emotionally disturbed eldest son, 12-year-old Kes (Luke Edwards). In the movie's opening scene, this unsmiling boy goes berserk in his biology class and repeatedly stabs the dead frog he is supposed to be dissecting. Jude eventually wins Kes's loyalty in the movie's creepiest scene. While taking a bubble bath in her fancy apartment, she entices him into the bathroom and shows him her scar from the Caesarean operation that brought him into the world. She was in labor with him for two days, she explains, because he didn't want to leave her.
This film really does spoil us in terms of star-power; not only do we have the divine Jamie Lee Curtis playing a rockin' evil bit**, but we also have the legendary Vanessa Redgrave as the eternally beautiful, weathly grandmother who foresees the evilness of Kes, imparts some information on Jude's horrific past (no wonder she's crazy) and does her level best to keep her daughter away from Robert and Callie. It's a rare woman that could even for a moment make me wish Jamie Lee Curtis would just go away, but at one point in the film, I must confess I preferred her to Jude.
I'm sure many of the people who have actually seen this movie would argue it's not cinematic genius or even particularly original - the vengeful ex/jilted lover is by no means an unexplored genre (you probably won't be able to watch this without thinking of Fatal Attraction) - but it's enjoyable, gripping and wholly entertaining. Plus is has Jamie Lee Curtis in, so really it's a winner all round and a thoroughly entertaining thriller.
Mothers Boy's is a ludicrously involving thriller led by Jamie Lee Curtis, giving a fantastic performance as the ice-cold, bitter ex-wife Jude. Helmed by Yves Simoneau, this psychological thriller makes Curtis look like the most ominous spiderwoman ever to spin a web of doom around an all-American family. She is shown dressed in black, furiously puffing on a cigarette. With her sharp features and deep-set eyes, Ms. Curtis is certainly threatening.
The key to her campaign is her emotionally disturbed eldest son, 12-year-old Kes (Luke Edwards). In the movie's opening scene, this unsmiling boy goes berserk in his biology class and repeatedly stabs the dead frog he is supposed to be dissecting. Jude eventually wins Kes's loyalty in the movie's creepiest scene. While taking a bubble bath in her fancy apartment, she entices him into the bathroom and shows him her scar from the Caesarean operation that brought him into the world. She was in labor with him for two days, she explains, because he didn't want to leave her.
This film really does spoil us in terms of star-power; not only do we have the divine Jamie Lee Curtis playing a rockin' evil bit**, but we also have the legendary Vanessa Redgrave as the eternally beautiful, weathly grandmother who foresees the evilness of Kes, imparts some information on Jude's horrific past (no wonder she's crazy) and does her level best to keep her daughter away from Robert and Callie. It's a rare woman that could even for a moment make me wish Jamie Lee Curtis would just go away, but at one point in the film, I must confess I preferred her to Jude.
I'm sure many of the people who have actually seen this movie would argue it's not cinematic genius or even particularly original - the vengeful ex/jilted lover is by no means an unexplored genre (you probably won't be able to watch this without thinking of Fatal Attraction) - but it's enjoyable, gripping and wholly entertaining. Plus is has Jamie Lee Curtis in, so really it's a winner all round and a thoroughly entertaining thriller.