She's So Lovely

Plot:
Maureen is pregnant and her working-class husband Eddie has disappeared for a few days. Nervous, Maureen shares a couple of drinks with neighbour Kiefer, who attempts to rape her and beats her up. When Eddie returns and finds out about that, he goes ballistic, shoots an police officer accidentally and is put to mental asylum. 10 years later Eddie is released, and Maureen is happily married to Joey, and is mother of three children, including Eddie's daughter Jeanie. - Anonymous

Comment:
Hoping to see a 'different' movie, She's So Lovely ended up being only a different kind of rubbish: violent, vulgar, slow, unlikely, questionable and definitely unconvincing.

Fortunately I usually like this kind of strange movies about poor/crazy people so I cannot fully criticize this movie. However, even in its genre, it is excessively absurd and illogical, I can understand that the two main characters lived a weird life in that poor place but how can an unbalanced man such as Joey look after three daughters and live in a nice big house?

There are far too many unlikely situations and none of the characters (even the minor ones) seems to be sane but still the story is not completely surreal or if it was intended to be so then it fails to convey this feeling. For example, the final 'fight' between the main characters seemed so senseless and pointless while the dialogues were sometimes witty, sometimes insensate but usually weird and possibly boring.

The only positive thing is the acting of Sean Penn who seems very good playing the completely crazy Eddie but this is obviously not enough to save this awful movie.