Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Python Hyena She's So Lovely (1997): Dir: Nick Cassavetes / Cast: Sean Penn, Robin Wright, John Travolta, Harry Dean Stanton, Debi Mazar: Repulsive bag of trash starring Robin Wright as a revolting little brat who is anything but lovely. After she is raped Sean Penn goes mad, gets drunk and then shoots somebody. They send him away in a nifty white jacket. Released ten years later with the news that Wright remarried and has a daughter. John Travolta plays her husband who feels that his stepdaughter should meet her father. The plot is contaminated because Nick Cassavetes shoots it like a bad sitcom. Penn is completely unsympathetic with an outrage that somehow never comes off convincingly. We are to believe that he is within the right here but since she is now married, his plea is more nonsense. Wright has this weird habit of tripping. She is even less sympathetic than Penn with a final scene that is more shameful than anything. Travolta delivers one-liners while waiting to get screwed over. His scenes are merely sitcom fashion within stagy sets. Harry Dean Stanton plays a friend of Penn who accompanies him and observes the outbursts. Stanton is often joined by Debi Mazar, who sits out the useless climax. It is a pathetic film that should be puked upon by every intoxicated person who resorted to alcohol upon seeing it. Message about alcohol is thwarted by its revolting ending. Score: 0 / 10

SnoopyStyle Maureen (Robin Wright) is a mess. She's pregnant and desperate to find her husband Eddie Quinn (Sean Penn). Her neighbor Kiefer (James Gandolfini) comforts her and then violently rapes her. Eddie takes it badly and attacks somebody landing him in a psychiatric hospital. He is released 10 years later although he keeps thinking it's only 3 months. Maureen had divorced him and remarried to Joey Germoni (John Travolta) with three kids. The oldest girl Jeanie is Eddie's.These are not sweet people. They are all a mess in the first part. The first part has great grimy gutter feel. Robin Wright brings so much to her character. Everybody does great performances. The second half is grasping a bit. It would be helpful to show where Joey is coming from. I think it's more dramatic to have Joey be normal but it's still compelling to have Travolta act a bit crazy.

Aregie From reading these reviews, one can clearly see this is a film that polarizes viewers. Frankly, at first, I almost dismissed it because of the violence and hopelessness. But the acting in this tragicomedy is so utterly compelling, the pathos so real that I couldn't stop watching, and the spot-on dialogue kept me caught up in the story. The humour was not just icing on the cake, but it infused some credible lightness into this heavy tale. John Travolta's line to his nine-year old daughter, "..shut up and drink your beer!" would not have worked in a lesser film, but it was perfectly absurd and hilarious. In the ending, there is neither redemption nor catastrophe, and it feels authentic, because tomorrow is still another day...

Alton Quint Every thing about this film is wonderful, except for the violence and the dark beginning. The performances by Penn, his wife and Travolta are all wonderful. This is actually my favorite Travolta role and this was the first time that he really dug beneath that cool and cocky exterior to show himself as a real actor, displaying a wide range of emotions. But the movie of course is carried primarily by Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn, playing two messed up lovers who are out of luck in every sense of the word. He loves her madly, while her feelings for him are difficult to understand. She seems to adore him, but then it becomes clear that she also is using him. When she is knocking at the door of the guy who abused her earlier and he starts to get nervous she asks him "Aren't you a tough guy?" and he replies no. That whole moment was very interesting and I think it said it all.One interesting fact that I wasn't aware of when I watched this film is that it was originally set to be made in the 80's, with the legendary John Cassavetes directing. That made me wonder what kind of beast it could have been and I believe we would get a very different kind of movie. All praise to his son Nick though, for he is also a capable director, yet there can never be another John Cassavetes again.James Gandolfini plays the nasty neighbor of Eddie and Maureen, a sort of a pre-Soprano signification of the creepiness and villain potential he is capable of, which he previously displayed in "True Romance". Harry Dean Stanton is delightful as always when he appears in such cameo parts. Although the second part of the film may be a slight let down after the strong first part, this movie is a definite treat for those who are sick of standard Hollywood fare and for the fans of Sean and Robin Penn and Travolta. The strength of the story and the performances is enough for a 10.