Single White Female (1992)
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Attractive Manhattanite Allison Jones has it all: a handsome beau, a rent-controlled apartment, and a promising career as a fashion designer. When boyfriend Sam proves unfaithful, Allison strikes out on her own but must use the classifieds to seek out a roommate in order to keep her spacious digs.
Now streaming (at least in the U.S.) on HBO/Max.
Spoiler for a 32-year-old movie: The dog dies.
Now streaming (at least in the U.S.) on HBO/Max.
Spoiler for a 32-year-old movie: The dog dies.
I somehow never saw this until a year or so ago, when the Evolution of Horror podcast did an episode on it. I know there's been a lot of discussion of how sexless modern Hollywood movies are, but I was NOT ready for how softcore porn this ostensibly mainstream movie is. It really was a whole other era.
posted by kittens for breakfast at 5:33 AM on November 28
posted by kittens for breakfast at 5:33 AM on November 28
Wow, such an early 90s movie. Hey, I have a computer! I can run my own business, and do cool things with it!
Funny, I had just moved in with my first roommate after college when I saw this movie. Since we have total opposite tastes in clothes, we laughed hysterically at that part.
posted by Melismata at 9:56 AM on November 28
Funny, I had just moved in with my first roommate after college when I saw this movie. Since we have total opposite tastes in clothes, we laughed hysterically at that part.
posted by Melismata at 9:56 AM on November 28
this movie is not spectacular but I think Jennifer Jason Leigh gives an incredible performance. Also it's weird how horny it is, feels like they don't make movies like this anymore
posted by dis_integration at 6:17 PM on November 28 [1 favorite]
posted by dis_integration at 6:17 PM on November 28 [1 favorite]
it's weird how horny it is, feels like they don't make movies like this anymore
There was a much-commented-on essay about that on the blue (although I begged to differ), so you're probably not wrong, although I feel like some of those 90s movies may have gone a bit too far in the other direction. This movie, for example; it's a decently-executed thriller, but the scene that sticks out the most to me now is the one in which Fonda's character eavesdrops on her roommate masturbating. I think that it's meant to show that it's not necessarily just Leigh's character that has trouble respecting boundaries, but it also kind of makes the audience complicit in the voyeurism. It's not as icky as, say, anything that Joe Eszterhas was involved in, but it's nothing that I'd want to watch again.
Also, at around this time I had a woman friend whose roommate would seem to develop an interest in just about anything that she was already interested in, at least to some degree. It didn't go to the absurd extremes of copying her haircut, but it was kind of frustrating to my friend, like she couldn't just have something of her own.
posted by Halloween Jack at 8:34 PM on November 30 [2 favorites]
There was a much-commented-on essay about that on the blue (although I begged to differ), so you're probably not wrong, although I feel like some of those 90s movies may have gone a bit too far in the other direction. This movie, for example; it's a decently-executed thriller, but the scene that sticks out the most to me now is the one in which Fonda's character eavesdrops on her roommate masturbating. I think that it's meant to show that it's not necessarily just Leigh's character that has trouble respecting boundaries, but it also kind of makes the audience complicit in the voyeurism. It's not as icky as, say, anything that Joe Eszterhas was involved in, but it's nothing that I'd want to watch again.
Also, at around this time I had a woman friend whose roommate would seem to develop an interest in just about anything that she was already interested in, at least to some degree. It didn't go to the absurd extremes of copying her haircut, but it was kind of frustrating to my friend, like she couldn't just have something of her own.
posted by Halloween Jack at 8:34 PM on November 30 [2 favorites]
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