She-Devil Page #3

Synopsis: Ruth is a wife and mother who tries to please her husband (Bob) but finds him pulling away and spending more time at the office than at home. When he begins an affair with a famous romance novelist (Mary) and leaves Ruth to raise their kids, she decides she's had enough of playing nice docile housewife. Ruth endeavors to show Bob and Mary the truth about themselves and each other, while creating a new successful life of her own.
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): Susan Seidelman
Production: 20th Century Fox
 
IMDB:
5.5
Rotten Tomatoes:
44%
PG-13
Year:
1989
99 min
1,119 Views


their father.

Oh, please come in.

Why don't you just

go find your father.

There's a door on the way,

to the right.

This place is cool!

Andy!

I found him!

Hi, daddy...

Who let you in here?

Gracia?!

Ruth, what the hell do

you think you're doing?

Andy, Nicolette,

this is your new home...

I'm sure you'll be

very happy here.

Ruth, you are really

depraved!

Someone get this strange

woman out of here!

Garcia!

You take care, kids.

And remember,

no matter what...

I love you both...

Very much.

Ruth!

Ruth...

If this is your idea

of a joke...

It's not funny!

Do you have

a satellite dish?

Ruth!

Ruth, take the children home!

I can't.

If you want to talk,

we'll meet for lunch...

But the children belong

at home with their mother!

You don't understand Bob.

There is no home.

What are you talking about?

The house is gone.

Burned down.

- There's nothing left but ashes.

- I don't believe you.

Well, call the insurance adjuster,

he'll tell you!

Ruth!

Ruth!

Okay...

Okay, Ruth!

I'll give you a few days...

Then you got to

come back for the kids.

Where can I reach you?

I'm not coming back, Bob.

They'll have a much

better life here with you.

Wait a minute, Ruth.

Where are you going?

I don't know, Bob.

Into my future, I guess.

Ruth!

Ruth!

Ruth!

Goddammit! Ruth!

Stop it!

I will have to get used

to being alone now.

It's not easy for a mother...

To be separated

from her children.

I'll bet Mary Fisher's mother

feels the same way.

Maybe I can help

old Mrs. Fisher...

Get reacquainted

with her daughter.

Buy a rose?

A beautiful rose

for a beautiful lady.

But first...

I will need a new name.

The old are all the same.

Allow them nothing!

Take a firm line!

Remember, they're

no different than children.

Are you used to

children, Miss Rose?

Yes.

Good, then you'll feel

right at home here.

Oh, let me stress one thing

above all else.

You must report any damp or

smelling beds immediately.

- Do you mean...

- Incontinence!

Bed wetters have no place...

In the Golden Twilight Home!

Walk this way, please.

Are they sedated?

Our angels would rather sleep

then be awake wondering why...

Their families have

thrown them away...

You can understand that,

can't you, Miss. Rose?

Of course!

Good afternoon,

Mrs. Trumper...

Oh, Mrs. Hooper,

this is Vesta Rose...

She's the new orderly.

Hello!

It's time for their medications.

Nurse Hooper may be short,

but she's very devouted.

Been with me for years!

You'll take your orders

from her.

Now go help her!

Yes, Mrs. Trumper.

That's it!

Good girl.

Not good?

Here we go.

Open up...

Right!

Okay, Mrs. Fisher...

Open wide...

- There we go.

- How are you, Mrs. Fisher?

You look

very pretty today!

All right now, Mrs Palmer...

SEDATIVE:

MaxiLIFE

Mary Fisher's mother has been enjoying

a long untroubled sleep...

It was time to wake her up!

Come on!

Give me the ball!

Yeah!

Go!

Come on, Ms. Wolinski!

Vesta, what is going on here?

Oh, is it not wonderful?

I know what you been doing!

The vitamins!

The workouts!

It's against the rules!

I'm going to

report you to Ms. Trumper...

And then you'll be sorry!

Oh, I don't think so!

I have been sorry

my whole life...

And by the looks of it,

so have you!

So you do

whatever you want.

But it's a shame now, Hooper...

I always thought

that women like us...

Should stick together.

Let's go!

Catch that ball!

She knew her body as

if she'd had it for a millennium...

And with an ease neither of them

had ever, ever, known...

He reached for her...

Come Juliet, Fuzzy!

Nub...

No.

Love...

Button...

Nicolette!

Nicolette...

Nicolette!

Nicolette!!

Nicolette!

Nicolette!

I'll call you back later.

You don't have to scream!

I asked you...

10 or 15 times not to...

Play that thing... so loudly.

And you damn know I don't approve

that you're talking on that party line!

There's nothing else

to do around here.

Hello!

Mary, hi!

What's going on out there?

I just spoked to your publisher

she's been trying to reach you.

I know...

The little Nicolette...

Has been on the phone

all day long!

Paula is very upset!

She says the new manuscript

is two months overdue.

You have no idea what

I have to put up with around here!

The noise, the bickering,

the constant interruptions.

I can barely even...

concentrate!

And let alone create!

Mary, Mary, the kids have been

through a very emotional experience...

They need time to adjust

to the new environement.

You're the stepmother, you got

to make them feel at home, Mary!

Help them!

Yes, I know!

Andrew!

Andrew, what are you doing?

Andrew!

Andrew, you leave

little Juliet alone!

Mary, what's on?

Your child and that mongrel

are molesting my dog.

Andrew, did you hear me?

Andrew...

Throw that stick away

right now!

Right now!

Mary...

Mary!

Mary!

It's time for your medication,

Mrs. Fisher..

This is the stupidest piece of trash

I have ever read!

How are you today, dear?

How the hell do I look?

- Better, dear, much better.

- Well, I'm bored to death!

Folk can go crazy

in a place like this!

Well, how about some nice

hearthy beef barley?

Oh, you know

I hate this slop!

You think you can

slip me a beer?

Mary Fisher, any relation?

My daughter!

- Oh how nice!

- She's a slut!

B*tch keeps me

in this dogpound...

While she lives the

life of a princess...

In her goddamn mansion!

Why, that doesn't seem fair!

Yeah I ought to drop in

on her one day...

That'd scare the sh*t

out of her.

You have rights.

If you wanted to go see your daughter

nobody could stop you.

I'm too old!

You are a mature and

vibrant woman...

And don't you let anybody

tell you anything different.

Yeah?

I suppose I could go

on Sunday afternoon!

I'll put you

on the train myself.

And I'll even call ahead to make sure

the butler knows you're coming.

Butler?

I'll bet there's

hanky panky there!

Well there's only

one way to find out!

- All right?

- Come with me.

All right!

- Here we go!

- Okay.

- Coming your way!

Lift it up!

Kill her!

Allright!

Trash her!

Come on!

Yes!

Kill her again!

Crush her!

Go! Yes!

What a pigsty!

Andrew!

Nicolette!

In this house we do not eat

in the living room!

That's my blouse!

You're wearing my blouse!

I have no clean clothes!

Do the laundry, then!

I'm sure your little brother

will be happy to help you.

I don't know how.

- Oh, yeah!

- Andrew, don't...

Ever kick me again!

- Come back here!

- That's it!

Now, go upstairs and

clean your rooms.

Tell the maid to do it!

You sh*t!

- Sh*t!

- Ute! Ute!

- Sh*t!

- Ute!

Ute, the children...

Don't seem to have

any clean clothes!

Do you think

that you could pos...

Fuzzy has just sh*t

all over the carpet!

Or perhaps Miss Fisher

would like to clean that up?

And Ute will do the laundry?

No, no, no, that's all right!

Where is Garcia?

In the swimming pool,

where else?

Garca!

Garca!

Garca, what the hell do

you think you're doing?

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