Review of Home Sweet Hell (2015) by Patrick L — 19 Aug 2015

"Look children! It's a falling star, make a wish".

DVD Movie Review: Home Sweet Hell.

Date Viewed: April 17 2015.

Directed By Anthony Burns.

Written By Carlo Allen, Tom Lavagnino and Ted Elrick.

Starring: Katherine Heigl, Patrick Wilson, Jordana Brewster, Jim Belushi, Kevin McKidd, Bryce Johnson, A.J. Buckley and Chi McBride.

Katherine Heigl just kill your career now. You have a horrible TV show (State of Affairs), you made a lot of awful rom-coms (The Big Wedding, Life as We Know It and The Ugly Truth) and you have a terrible personality. Just when you think the trajectory of her career couldn't get any lower, now comes "Home Sweet Hell", a dark comedy in which a pitch-perfect housewife does stupid things after she finds out that her husband had an affair with his slutty co-worker. I can smell the stench of this film already. Everybody in "Home Sweet Hell" are horrible human beings. How can we root for anybody in this movie if every person turns into a mindless zombie. I hate to borrow a quote from David Spade but "Look children! It's a falling star, make a wish".

Don Champagne (Patrick Wilson) and his wife, Mona (Heigl) are living the good life, they have a great house, two kids and a successful business. Mona wants to achieve a set of goals in this family, she wants to keep this house perfectly clean every week, she wants her husband to be a good businessman and she wants her children to go to college and to have a successful career. However, Don isn't too fond of her goals, they only have sex six times a year.

Soon, Don has an affair with slutty co-worker, Dusty (Jordana Brewster) and she blackmails Don by telling him she's pregnant. Dusty threatens to tell his wife about their affair and she wants $25,000 to keep it all quiet. When Don admits to Mona about his affair with Dusty, Mona wants him to kill her. After they get rid of her, Mona cuts her into little pieces and it turns out that Dusty wasn't pregnant after all. They also find out that Dusty was working for a couple of thugs and Don goes to a strip-club to figure out who they are.

An even bigger bloodbath is about to ensue when Mona goes into the trailer of one of the thugs and she kills him and a stripper with a samurai sword. As you can see, Don and Mona are complete idiots and they are bad of what they do. Even though the women in this movie are treated poorly, the men are even worse, all of them are full of scum. Playing against type here, Heigl gives another terrible performance as the overly, pitch-perfect bitch of a housewife and Patrick Wilson delivers a godawful performance as Don, Mona's obnoxious husband who does very bad things to himself and his marriage. Poor Jim Belushi, he is completely wasted here as Don's co-worker at the furniture store.

Ugly and lifeless, the dark comedy "Home Sweet Hell" is another nail in the Katherine Heigl career coffin.