hollywood always go for easy endings. or cheesy endings. and easy story line that doesn't hurt the brain. i remember watching step mom (1998) and shuddered at the eventual reconciliation.
may be it happens in real life. may be. though i think not often.
the characters in this movie are real people who are pissed off when a husband left her for a much younger woman and she is hell bent to make the other woman pay for it. great performance by scott cohen, natalie portman and lisa kudrow. i especially liked the complexity of portman's emilia greenleaf - the confident young woman who underestimated the nature of being a sudden mother, while battling her own childhood demons of her broken family. the movie has no happy ending, which i liked better, but in the end, everyone grows up.
that's the point, after all.
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