Enough
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| Directed by | Michael Apted |
| Produced by | Rob Cowan Irwin Winkler |
| Written by | Nicholas Kazan |
| Starring | Jennifer Lopez, Billy Campbell, Juliette Lewis, Dan Futterman, Fred Ward, Tessa Allen, Noah Wyle |
| Music by | David Arnold |
| Cinematography | Rogier Stoffers, Rodney Taylor |
| Editing by | Rick Shaine |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | May 24, 2002 |
| Running time | 116 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $38,000,000[1] |
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Enough is a 2002 Hollywood psychological thriller. It stars Jennifer Lopez as Slim, a young waitress who one day finds the man of her dreams in the diner where she works. A few years later, they have a young daughter, Gracie (Tessa Allen), and it is revealed that her "perfect" husband, Mitch (Billy Campbell) is abusive towards her and is cheating on her.
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[edit] Cast
- Jennifer Lopez - Slim Hiller
- Billy Campbell - Mitch Hiller
- Tessa Allen - Gracie Hiller
- Juliette Lewis - Ginny
- Dan Futterman - Joe
- Christopher Maher - Phil
- Fred Ward - Jupiter
- Noah Wyle - Robbie
[edit] Plot
Mitch defends Slim, a waitress in a diner, from obscene comments by a customer. They quickly fall in love, marry and have a baby girl named Gracie.
Mitch is a rich and powerful man, however, and soon, Slim begins to discover a dark side to him. Mitch believes that his money and power will give him anything and he has a misogynistic streak. He beats Slim and threatens to kill her. The police cannot help, because the best they can do is jail him for a short period, and meanwhile she would risk losing her daughter to state family protection programs.
Mitch stops all her credit cards and freezes her accounts. Slim and Gracie then flee to a motel, but Mitch finds them. They escape on a public bus, and move to Seattle, where she meets with her former boyfriend, Joe, who still has feelings for her. Meanwhile Mitch turns to Robbie, his contact in the Los Angeles Police, the same man who had verbally abused Slim at the diner. It emerges that Mitch and Robbie had scammed several women using the "verbal abuse" trick, and Mitch had several mistresses. Mitch locates Joe's residence and sends three men there to search for Slim and Gracie, but are unsuccessful.
Slim and Gracie flee again, but are tracked down in Michigan. Slim sends Gracie to stay for a month to her friend from the diner, Ginny, and meanwhile Slim trains in Krav Maga, preparing herself emotionally and physically for self-defense. She prepares herself for a visit to Mitch's house to hopefully get him to leave her alone.
She breaks into Mitch's new house and removes all potential weapons, and familiarises herself with the layout of the place and planting letters of evidence. When Mitch returns home, she attacks him and overwhelms him, but cannot bring herself to kill him. She calls Ginny and asks what she should do, but Mitch recovers and knocks her unconscious. Ginny becomes hysterical on the phone and Mitch hangs up. Slim recovers and manages to turn the tables on Mitch. He falls two floors onto a glass table and dies.
The police arrive and tell Slim that Ginny had called the police to save her. She then tells the officer that Mitch is inside, but no longer armed or dangerous. She goes to the airport and reunites with Gracie. In the final scene, she is seen holding hands with her old flame, Joe.
[edit] Critical reception
The film received mostly negative reviews from critics. On the review aggregator Metacritic, the film had an average score of 25 out of 100, based on 32 reviews.[2] On Rotten Tomatoes, 21% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 121 reviews.[3]
Renee Graham of The Boston Globe said the film "shamelessly exploits the horror of domestic violence for melodramatic, cheap thrills."[4] BBC film critic Jamie Russell said "the crassness of this reactionary thriller is matched only by the ridiculousness of its premise."[4] Jim Judy of Screen it! said "it's just too bad that so much of the film is heavy-handed, manipulative and contrived, or simply so hard to believe."[4] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times called it "a nasty item masquerading as a feminist revenge picture."[4] New York Magazine critic Peter Rainer said "Clumsy, obvious, preposterous, the movie will likely set the cause of woman warriors back decades."[4] Richard Roeper said "It's a loathsome movie, it really is and it makes absolutely no sense."[4]
Joe Leydon of the San Francisco Examiner called it "a juicy, pulpy and entirely shameless melodrama, the kind of well-tooled popcorn flick that manages the difficult feat of appealing to your worst instincts without making you feel ashamed of yourself."[4] Joe Baltake of The Sacramento Bee said the film was "perhaps the guiltiest guilty pleasure in a long time."[4]
[edit] Box office performance
The film ranked #5 at the U.S box office its opening weekend, grossing $14 million in 2,623 theaters.[5] The film had a budget of $38 million and grossed $40 million domestically. Worldwide, the film grossed a total of $51.8 million.[1]
[edit] DVD release date(s) and VHS tape release date
This DVD release of Enough came out on October 8, 2002 and the special edition was released in September 16, 2003. A video cassette was released in VHS (tape) March 4, 2003.
[edit] References
- ^ a b Enough (2002). Box Office Mojo. Retrieved on 2007-09-26.
- ^ Enough (2002): Reviews. Metacritic. Retrieved on 2007-09-26.
- ^ Enough - Rotten Tomatoes. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved on 2007-09-26.
- ^ a b c d e f g h http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/enough/?beg=0&int=102&creamcrop_limit=30&page=all Retrieved 2007-09-26
- ^ Enough (2002) - Weekend Box Office. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved on 2007-09-26.
[edit] External links
- Enough at the Internet Movie Database
- Enough at Rotten Tomatoes
- Enough at Metacritic
- Enough at Box Office Mojo
- Enough at Allmovie
