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Enough
on DVD (2002)
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| Starring: |
Jennifer Lopez, Bill Campbell, Juliette Lewis, Noah Wyle, Dylan McDermott, Dan Futterman, Tessa Allen |
| Director: |
Michael Apted |
| Studio: |
SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time: |
110 mins |
| Certificate: |
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| User collections: |
My Current Top 20 |
| Genres: |
Thriller |
| Languages: |
English |
| Hearing-impaired: |
English |
| Subtitles: |
Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Swedish |
| Released: |
19/05/2003
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| Also Available on: |
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Brief synopsis of Enough
A diner waitress, Slim (Jennifer Lopez), meets Mitch (Bill Campbell), a handsome rich man who defends her in the diner. They marry and have a child, but Slim's happiness is soon lost when she discovers that her husband has a mistress. When confronted, Mitch becomes abusive and proceeds to lay down controlling laws for Slim. As the abuse grows worse, Slim realizes that fleeing is her only path to freedom. Mitch's determination becomes evident as he tracks Slim down, terrorizes her, and uses the legal system to his advantage by scheduling a custody hearing. Realizing that flight and the law are not her strongest allies, Slim takes intensive combat classes, preparing to meet Mitch one last time and intending to kill him in apparent self-defense.
ENOUGH wisely spins typical gender roles beyond the training of its protagonist. Slim is aided by a sensitive male admirer with stamina problems (Dan Futterman) and her daughter Grace (Tessa Allen), who has admirable basketball skills. When it comes time for the climactic last battle, ENOUGH doesn't get bogged down with politics, sexual or otherwise. Instead, it gleefully delivers an elaborate, bloody, final brawl.
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Critics Reviews
Radio Times
The issue of domestic violence is exploited for cheap thrills in this tawdry cat-and-mouse thriller. Constructed from the usual clichés, it unsuccessfully attempts to redefine lightweight star Jennifer Lopez as a “serious” actress. Lip-glossed to perfection, Lopez works through a catalogue of female stereotypes: hard-working waitress; blushing bride; spousal punching bag, and, finally, determined mother who fights back. Each “life cycle” is accompanied by a different wig and display of mental ingenuity, as Lopez's character, Slim, embarks on a Sleeping with the Enemy-style journey to escape her vicious husband, Mitch (Billy Campbell). For all its gut-churning brutality, the film remains a grotesque mockery of reality, with director Michael Apted crudely using violence to manipulate audience emotion. Consequently, by the time he unveils his calculating conclusion, any meaningful message has been swept away on a tide of patronising, and ultimately comic, absurdity.
Time Out
This opens with Lopez waiting tables in a diner under the name 'Slim', as she's supposedly too wary of over-familiar...
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Halliwell's Film Guide
Contrived and tacky domestic drama of a familiar kind that is always predictable and never interesting.
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