She's So Lovely
She's So Lovely
R | 29 August 1997 (USA)
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After being released from a psychiatric institution, a man tries to redeem himself in the eyes of his now-ex wife from the events that led up to his incarceration.

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Konterr

Brilliant and touching

SeeQuant

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

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Stephan Hammond

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

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Wyatt

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

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SnoopyStyle

Maureen (Robin Wright) is a mess. She's pregnant and desperate to find her husband Eddie Quinn (Sean Penn). Her neighbor Kiefer (James Gandolfini) comforts her and then violently rapes her. Eddie takes it badly and attacks somebody landing him in a psychiatric hospital. He is released 10 years later although he keeps thinking it's only 3 months. Maureen had divorced him and remarried to Joey Germoni (John Travolta) with three kids. The oldest girl Jeanie is Eddie's.These are not sweet people. They are all a mess in the first part. The first part has great grimy gutter feel. Robin Wright brings so much to her character. Everybody does great performances. The second half is grasping a bit. It would be helpful to show where Joey is coming from. I think it's more dramatic to have Joey be normal but it's still compelling to have Travolta act a bit crazy.

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edwagreen

There is a lot of good psychology in this 1997 film where a woman who is told that her husband will never recover from mental illness, divorces him while pregnant and soon remarries and builds a new life of her own.Problem is that the ex-husband, well played by Sean Penn, is released and havoc ensues when he reenters her life.We were basically dealing with low class people here from the beginning of the film. Penn,as Eddie, with his emotional hang-ups and ultimate outburst leading to his confinement.Despite the home he has made for her and their children, John Travolta shows the same vulgarity and violence prone inclinations as did Penn.Some may view this as a comedy, but I don't due to the psychological and social ramifications. The ending may be disappointing to many, but it's a vary of the theme of a way we were. Some people are destined to their previous life, no matter how difficult and what it means what they give up in the end. This is a perfect example of this.

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ebsbel

Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn fall in love, but their lives are everything but stable. Sean Penn is sent to jail for a number of years and when he is released he returns to his love Robin Wright Penn. She is now married to John Travolta and they have several kids. Normally this kind of family business would take months or even years to solve, but these crazy people and kids settle everything in one day. This means emotions, actions and dialog concentrated to the very essence of these peoples lives. Quite fascinating to watch and reminding of the way director Nick Cassavetes' father John Cassavetes used to make movies. Sean Penn always puts his soul into his work and the other actors do a great job. This movie is great fun. Watch it!!!

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vchimpanzee

It is clear from his performance here why Sean Penn eventually won an Oscar. Although I didn't like the character, Penn effectively showed many dimensions of the troubled Eddie Quinn. I thoroughly despised Maureen, and I don't know how to evaluate Robin Wright Penn's performance. Jack wasn't much better, though his circumstances contributed to this, and I believe John Travolta did a good job playing him.Other good performances came from Kelsey Mulrooney as Jack's 9-year-old adopted daughter Jeannie, Harry Dean Stanton as Eddie's best friend Shorty, and Justina Machado as Carmen Rodriguez, who sold tickets at the dance club and was a real breath of fresh air in this depressing movie despite having only a few lines. What I really liked was the music. Some of these may just have been background rather than recorded for other purposes, and some of the background music I liked but didn't pay that much attention to. -Big band jazz with the opening credits, though in my opinion the vocal performance was horrendous.-More good jazz on the way to the dance club.-Latin jazz in the dance club, but I didn't care for the vocalist.-Italian-flavored easy listening in Lorenzo's Restaurant.-Late in the movie, more good jazz as Eddie sat in Shorty's car drinking.-Still more good jazz, but in a style totally out of character for the scene, when Eddie got out of Shorty's car for the second time.-Big band jazz--but with bawdy lyrics--in the closing credits. And there were other songs used that I didn't like as much, including one Motown-type tune that I began to associate with a particularly unpleasant moment in the movie as I heard it during commercial breaks, when we were reminded what we were watching.Some people may enjoy a movie like this. Not me.

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