Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Micitype Pretty Good

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Justina The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

SnoopyStyle In Tettley, Missouri, Amos Lansing (Stanley Tucci) is having an affair with Charleen Barnes (Faye Grant). He's an used car salesman working for her husband Bob Barnes. When he offers to take her to Mexico, she runs off. Someone comes into the motel room and kills him with a shot to the head. The gun is thrown into the river and found by perennial doormat librarian Mrs. Elizabeth Louise 'Betty Lou' Perkins (Penelope Ann Miller). Her husband police detective Alex Perkins (Eric Thal) missed their anniversary dinner and is going to miss her library fundraiser for the murder case. She puts the gun in her handbag and calls Alex but he keeps brushing her off. When Elinor (Julianne Moore) pulls her into the store, Betty Lou has enough of everybody ignoring her and fires the gun in the washroom. With everybody dismissing her, she proclaims her guilt and is arrested. She gains confidence in jail with hooker Reba Bush (Cathy Moriarty) and starts weaving a tall tale about the shooting. She hires rookie lawyer Ann Orkin (Alfre Woodard) who helped her in the grocery line. Things get even more complicated when the FBI shows up claiming Amos is a fake identity and he's actually a mobster witness against ruthless mob boss Billy Beaudeen (William Forsythe). Beaudeen is after Amos' incriminating tape assumed to be now in Betty Lou's possession. She becomes an overnight star.Penelope Ann Miller is fun both as the timid librarian and as the more assertive woman. The movie was almost universally panned. It deserves better. Miller is appealing. It's nothing excessively funny but there are a couple of good laughs. It is an enjoyable farce.

Rhea I saw this movie on TV and I have to admit.. I loved it! I was planning to go to sleep but once this movie came on I watched it all the way through! Although not exactly an Oscar winner, it had a charm all it's own. I think the cast was what made it, I loved Betty Lou and especially Eric Thal as Alex! They had great chemistry and were really cute together! This is a fun cute movie definitely NOT to be taken seriously, but just to sit back and enjoy! It still has a little bit of 80's fun to it.. I think in the 80's a lot of movies were made that would NEVER be made now, but now they are so fun to watch! This had a little bit of that. I dunno, I just loved it!

chinaskee At first I thought Penelope Ann Miller was going to be able to carry this film.You could see those wheels in her head churning when she figured out she'd be able to get her husband's attention if she confessed to a murder,and she had me laughing quite a few times.But about half-way through,it started to give me a headache and I had to turn it off.Something about that red dress she wore in the courtroom and the following scene at an airport with some really loud music had an adverse effect on me and I couldn't bear any more of it.

Tito-8 I just don't understand what was supposed to be funny about this movie, which is a pretty major flaw in a comedy. As opposed to many bad comedies where "thud" can be heard every few seconds due to the pathetic jokes, this movie had no thuds. I couldn't identify what was meant to be funny but simply wasn't. It didn't have jokes...even bad ones. It didn't have anything.