Diagonaldi Very well executed

Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Tom DeFelice The white middle/upper middle/upper class of America is corrupt, materialistic and empty of all humanity. This is the thesis of a number of films. They come in many flavors including dramatic (ex: "The Swimmer"), funny (ex: "Into The Night") and satiric (ex: "Bone"). The biggest crime this film commits is that it is predictable. It works too hard to get to a place that we've been to too many times. Still, it should not be ignored. Anyone interested in film should see this one once. We've been here before, but it's a nice reference point. The acting actually rises above the script. Two brilliant actresses from the 1970's never reached their potential in Hollywood. They are Kitty Winn and Jeannie Berlin. Both had an extraordinary command of their craft. Whenever one of their films is released on DVD it is a treat. Jeannie Berlin's performance alone is enough to make rental of this film worthwhile.

alastairdreid The film starts with a rat in a pool then a black man appears and it is the interaction between these three unpleasant characters what makes the film. The three are an unsuccessful car dealer his wife and a robber/rapist/murderer. The films improv style acting and unreal sequences serve to give an intensively unpleasant atmosphere as the characters are revealed and their lives decay. Cohen has produced an underground masterpiece and while it defies comparison there are similarities to Apocalypse Now or Crash. It is a crime that this film is not better known and this is probably only because the majority of viewers will hate it.

NORDIC-2 Larry Cohen's BONE (1972) is a strange but interesting little film from an era when it was actually okay to lambast the capitalist mucky-mucks. Bone (Yaphet Kotto) is a young black tough who wanders into Beverly Hills and menaces a bourgeois white couple played by Andrew Duggan and Joyce Van Patten. Duggan is a slimy car salesman and Van Patten plays his trophy wife. (They have a grown son, who is in a Spanish jail for trying to smuggle hashish.) The film is supposed to be a satire of white racism and male privilege--and it is, but it's uneven at best. The film is well acted but a stronger, more coherent script would have helped. (Bonus moment: there's a hilarious moment when a hippie girl deliberately puts down a banana peel in a grocery store and--you guessed it--a hapless clerk goes sailing into a display in one of the best pratfalls ever recorded on film.)

glen-16 At last I have found the holy grail of modern cinema. 'Housewife' is the film many people spend half their lives looking for. The stylized approach to incidental music, flashback techniques and the coming together of elusive plot strands all go towards making a truly first class motion picture. This film stands as a beacon shining in the darkness from continent to continent, breaking every mould, chasing its own hysteria which the film makes no bones about concealing. 'Housewife' is the yardstick for a truly wonderful film.