Oh you, "She Devil" you!

She Devil (<-- IMDB link)

Oh my god.  This movie is amazing!  It stars Roseanne Barr and it’s probably from the late 1980’s (hair's a giveaway), but it is AMAZING.  It’s really funny, and kind of a women’s rights/activist movie, though that is very subtle. 

Rose’s (movie and real name) husband, Bob, (Ed Begley, Jr.) cheats on her with a best selling novelist, Mary Fisher, (Meryl Streep) who is much more “beautiful and thin” than her.  She knows this is happening, but swears that her husband will come back to her and that he is just going through a phase.  Eventually, they have a big argument about it, and he leaves during a dinner party that she throws for his parents (in which many things go wrong).  He ends the fight by calling her a “she devil,” whilst insulting everything about her.

Rose then creates a list of the things that he said were important to him, and she decides to embody the so-called “she-devil.”  The main plot is how she decides to destroy Bob's life.  She creates a list of the top four things he said was the most important to him, and one by one she ruins them, and it's quite ...exploding.  

The underlying point this movie is trying to make concerns women's rights.  Through a series of events, she ends up meeting a bunch of different women, empowering them by saying beauty isn’t skin deep, and telling them it’s okay stand up for themselves--but I should also mention that she is simultaneously setting them using them as pawns in her master plan.  She and a friend create a company where these “mistreated and underappreciated” women can learn how to be powerful and take control of their lives.  So it's kind of cool because while she is taking revenge on Bob, she becomes this successful business tycoon-type, creating other women like her.

I don’t want to give too much away, because it is a funny movie and I want you to see it.  Especially if you want to have a lazy, giggly Sunday.

Enjoy!