While She Was Out Details

Kim Basinger back on form!!!!!

This is a fantastic thriller that sees Kim Basinger back on form in a situation that could happen to anyone. Beware!!!!!!!

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[Highly rated reviewer]

WHILE SHE WAS OUT

I expected this to be a run of the mill film about a woman being chased and terrorised by a gang of young hoods who get much more than they bargained for but it had a feminist slant to it which slightly lifted it out of the ordinary. However this in no way compensated for some preposterous turns of the plot, stereotypical behaviour of the gang and some hackeyed conventions that always appear in this genre. It was written and directed by a woman, Susan Montford, and I suspect that there may have been a feminist sub text to the film that passed me by - apart from the fact that if a woman can dispose of a gang of hoodlums using items from a toolbox then she ought to be able to stand up to a wife beating spouse. May be there is some additional symbolism in why Della (Kim Basinger) would flee from a gang of hoodlums through a building site and forest at night still wearing her raincoat and daintily carrying a red toolbox ,that she's removed from her car, as though it were a picnic hamper. Maintaining one's femininity in the face of male adversity perhaps ? Also the gang seemed to be made up of people from each ethnic group usually responsible for crime in the movies. Co-incidence ? I don't think so. The film is mercifully short but it still left far too many loose ends for me I'm afraid.