SundanceNagrial I loved this movie! I watched Roseanne religiously growing up in the 90's, so this was a nice walk down memory lane, and I thoroughly enjoyed watching Meryl Streep play a Gorgeously ritzy, self-deluded, Spoiled blonde. Awesome. Anyone else playing the role of 'Mary', and I would've probably found her annoying. Yet, Meryl Streep is an amazing actress with more emotional depth on her pinkie than most of the actresses in Hollywood today, so to see her play a role so far beneath her her original stature is pure pleasure, she gives her character profoundness, Roseanne played her role perfectly, It was fun and exciting to see what her character would do next. I enjoyed it thoroughly! - SundanceNagrial

WakenPayne this movie is supposed to be a comedy but there is very little evidence to backup this because it's worse than the Jason Friendberg and Aaron Seltzer comedies. is quite easily the 4th worst movie of the 80's I don't know what the #### the people are thinking when they say Merly Streep can act she can't act she's so bad I think If I see another thing with Meryl Streep in it I could spot her out even if she had 9,000,000 layers of makeup (to hide her face) OK the plot is so annoying this woman has a husband and she is a housewife and the husband cheats on her for THE WORLDS WORST ACTRESS MERYL STREEP!!!!!!!!! and the wife cooks a dead rat with a dinner and he blows it and leaves then she blows the house up takes the kids to her (with her bad acting all I mention in this movie is all this crap actress Streep deserves) and then she puts Streep's mother with her and she gets fired and then they open an employment Agency which the commercial is so out of order they say "...we believe people are more than just their jobs." which is a very huge mistake because they wire people to their jobs and nothing else so she slips a pamphlet in her husbands office she has the perfect person in competition in the movie then the husband starts ####ing her and then it turns out that the girl up against Meryl is in love with the husband and this doesn't bother her for a second and when she ####'s the girl Meryl is typing up a new novel and then the girl up against Meryl Streep reveals her feelings for him she gets fired so what do they do the wife and the girl up against Streep frauds the customers into getting out thousands of their money to Switzerland a party is thrown the Police enter then they arrest him. this movie is a must-see for anyone who likes pains like stretching the skin of their own head (another movie comes to mind Charlies Angels 2)

Alain English Based on Fay Weldon's popular novel about a lowly housewife who takes revenge on her husband after he cheats on her with a romance novelist, "She-Devil" is at times unwatchably grotesque, but this owes more to it's characters and their tastelessness rather than the quality of the movie itself.Rosanne Barr, as the housewife, would later make a serious name for herself in the kind of role she plays here - in her own TV series. She gives a good performance that wins you over by the end. Meryl Streep as the author overacts enormously, and it is horrifying to think that women like the one she's playing actual exist. Today, I see a vague hint of "Harry Potter" author JK Rowling in her performance - an absurdly beautiful and intelligent woman who lives in a self-created world of her own. Ed Begley Jr is also watchable as the mindless husband caught in between them.The posters for this movie are actually misleading - Barr and Streep never have a punch-up although they inflict a lot of pain on each other and themselves.Worth watching - but you need a strong stomach to swallow the movie's message.

FloatingOpera7 She-Devil (1989): Starring Roseanne Barr, Ed Begley Jr, Meryl Streep, Linda Hunt, Sylvia Miles, Elisabeth Peters, Bryan Larkin, Maria Pitillo, A. Martinez, Mary Louise Wilson, Robin Leach, Director Susan Seidelman, Based on the novel by Fay Weldon.I never saw this in the movie theaters in 1989, being only 9 yrs old at that time. But this film has been on TV and cable several times. It stars Roseanne Barr in a terrific performance as Ruth Patchett, a frumpy, fat and under-appreciated suburban housewife with two kids. Her husband, Bob, indulges in an affair with a fabulously wealthy romance novelist Mary Fisher. She lives in a pink house by the ocean. When she and Bob become lovers, Ruth is resolved to get her revenge and possibly win her husband back at the same time. Throughout the film, she methodically extracts his punishment. She first kicks him out of the house. He naturally moves in with Mary Fisher in her mansion, but Ruth also dumps the kids on him. Now Mary Fisher must serve as mother to the kids and suffer the same treatment Ruth endured. Her novels begin to lose their old magic and she finds herself aging and unattractive. Ruth manipulates things so that her shrewish mother (Sylvia Miles) moves in with Ruth, this accomplished by posing as a nurse in the convalescent home where she was lodged. Roseanne's plot actually works, as ultimately, Bob lands in jail for his embezzlements. Ruth and Bob care for the kids, even if Bob is still in jail. The story is dark, humorous and contains a strong women's empowerment theme. Rather than just taking her husband's betrayal, she gets even. I wish more women could do this! It's a wonderfully-written and enjoyable film. Meryl Streep as Mary Fisher is comical, bitchy, and the type you love to hate. There is much to admire in how this film serves as revenge fantasy, even if it's unrealistic. I really found this to be a great movie. Check it out.