Single White Female (1992)

Barbet Schroeder follows up his masterpiece Barfly and his Oscar nomination for best director for Reversal of Fortune with this soapy, trashy thriller about an obsessive roommate. The whole story is telegraphed out from the moment Jennifer Jason Leigh starts acting like a wacko, which is pretty quickly and we just wait for the inevitable cat fight. The two leads are committed to this crummy material, but this is just a sleazy bore, even with the requisite nudity. I have nothing against Barbet Schroeder making a down and dirty exploitation romp, but Single White Female doesn't even deliver in the cheap thrills department.

Jennifer Jason Leigh proves in this film that she is a manipulative killer when she moves in with Bridget Fonda in this 1992 film.The problem is that Fonda has been in an on and off again relationship with her boyfriend. When the two reconcile, it's time for Leigh to move out, but instead she dyes her hair and takes on Fonda's appearance.The sweet girl that Leigh apparently is isn't that at all as she resorts to all kinds of killing, a dog included.She reveals her sordid childhood as she causes havoc with nearly just about everyone that she meets in the movie.The movie also reveals sexual harassment in the workplace regarding the Fonda character.

SINGLE WHITE FEMALEThis is a thriller from 1992 that I liked a lot when it first came out.The movie is about a woman who has recently broken up with her fiancé decides to get a room mate to help her get over it. When Hedra moves in it all seems to be going well... until the day Hedra starts getting obsessive.This film is based on a book by John Lutz. I have never read the book, but I do have it that I will get round to.The 90s produced some amazing thrillers and this is a very good one. I remember watching this and The Hand The Rocks The Cradle a lot around the same time.The cast were very good in this, but I have not really seen either of the 2 ladies in much else. I know they have had pretty good careers, but I just have not seen them in much else. Bridget Fonda plays Allison. She plays the part well and you believe that she is a victim and very emotional. She seems quite shy and very nice. Jennifer Jason Leigh plays Hedra. She plays the part brilliantly. She is a psycho and you know pretty much straight away that this woman has issues.The story has some great moments in it... some of which make you ask questions... and at time these questions do not get answered, but you presume you know the answer.The ending of the movie is very predictable, but then most thrillers have a predictable ending.For it's time this film is a very good, and if you like thrillers I recommend you give this a watch. I will give this film 7 out of 10."I can be butch when I have to, I get it from my mother."For more reviews, please like my Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ordinary-Person-Movie- Reviews/456572047728204?ref=hl

"New friend turned psycho" films have been made before, multiple times, but this was a good one. It is hard to remember sometimes which came first. Was it "Play Misty for Me" or that one with Glenn Close? The stereotypical gay friend upstairs, and the fiancé who can't seem to keep himself zipped up. Yet even the less than perfect men in the movie aren't all bad. Sure the client boss enjoys a little sexual harassment, and the fiancé isn't perfectly faithful, but then in reality who is morally perfect in life? And while both are jerks in different ways, poetic justice sets in when they both get dispatched permanently, while the gay friend only suffers a concussion from which he timely revives and saves Bridget Fonda from being killed by psycho woman. The movie is true in that most people are neither all good or all bad, and that once in a long while you run into someone who is a sociopath and frankly diabolical tendencies are breathtaking.