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The First Wives Club
Why this pick
Like She-Devil, it turns marital betrayal into cathartic, sharply comic revenge, led by women reclaiming power with escalating schemes and a gleefully mean-spirited edge.
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MOVIE1989 1h 39m USA
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
This romantic black comedy shares She-Devil’s broken-heart revenge engine, following two jilted lovers whose surveillance-and-sabotage campaign grows messier and more emotionally pointed.
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Saving Silverman
Why this pick
A broad, irreverent battle of manipulative relationships and increasingly ludicrous plots. Its exaggerated cruelty and cartoonish revenge mechanics echo She-Devil’s farcical spirit.
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The War of the Roses
Why this pick
Released the same year, this is a darker, more corrosive companion: domestic resentment becomes elaborate warfare, with stylized escalation and no sentimental softening of its combatants.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Ruth Patchett is a frumpy, overweight wife and mother, who tries desperately to please her husband Bob, an accountant trying to boost his business. After Bob meets Mary Fisher, a narcissistic romance novelist, at a dinner party, they begin an affair. Ruth, aware of the affair, confronts Bob while his parents are visiting, and Bob leaves her. As he packs his suitcase, he says his assets are his home, his family, his career, and his freedom. Angry, Ruth vows revenge on him and Mary. Ruth writes a list titled "Bob's Assets", with the four assets that Bob stated. She crosses off each one when it is destroyed.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Roseanne Barr
Ruth Patchett
Ed Begley Jr.
Bob
Meryl Streep
Mary Fisher
Bryan Larkin
Andy Patchett
A Martinez
Garcia
Sylvia Miles
Mrs. Fisher
Linda Hunt
Hooper
Maria Pitillo
Olivia Honey