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The Most Hated Woman in America Movie Review (2. My mother pissed off a lot of people, especially those she was close to.” There’s an undeniable wealth of storytelling to be culled from the life of Madalyn Murray O’Hair, a talk show regular and fighter for religious freedom who was kidnapped in the ‘9. She fought back against what she saw as the hypocrisy of a religious community that shunned her after a second pregnancy as a single woman, starting a legal battle to remove prayer from schools and the words “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance. Realizing she could make a profit as an anti- religious leader, she founded American Atheists, getting donations large enough to make her rich, and a target of those who wanted her cash. She was once called "The Most Hated Woman in America,” and the Netflix Original that tries to tell her story takes that name as well. I said tries because you have learned about as much reading this intro as you will about Madalyn Murray O’Hair in the course of this disappointing, narratively flat film. Advertisement. Melissa Leo plays the controversial figure, although she’s often forced to fight through bad, old- age makeup to convey character.

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We see Madalyn at several key points in her life, but the majority of the film focuses on the kidnapping in August of 1. David Waters (Josh Lucas), Gary Karr (Rory Cochrane) and Danny Fry (Alex Frost), a trio of guys who just wanted to get $1 million and head for the border. To say it didn’t go well would be an understatement. Oddly, no one seemed to care that Madalyn, her son Jon (Michael Chernus) and her granddaughter Robin (Juno Temple) were gone. Murray O’Hair had pulled publicity stunts in the past, so the cops didn’t investigate her disappearance, even though her ally Roy (Brandon Mychal Smith) knew that she wouldn’t leave her beloved dogs at home. Rob went to the press, getting in touch with San Antonio reporter Jack Ferguson (Adam Scott), who agreed that something didn’t look right, and started publishing stories about the Murray O’Hair disappearance.

This “investigative” thread is used narratively to allow us into flashbacks about key moments in Madalyn’s life, like her activism for religious freedom and the estrangement from her son Bill Jr. Vincent Kartheiser), who now runs a fight for religious inclusion in the school system. Perhaps most bizarrely, director Tommy O’Haver uses a lot of clips from Murray O’Hair appearances, such as when she popped up on “Donahue” and “The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.” A 9.

The fact is that O’Haver and co- writer Irene Turner never settle on an angle from which to tell this story. The history of Madalyn’s life has a direct, then- this- happened biopic style. The film in which Adam Scott appears has a totally different tone, almost an outsider look at a crazy movie that could have worked on its own. And then there’s the most frustrating film of all, the kidnapping tale that feels like it needed to have dark comedy elements like “Fargo” or “Bernie” but just comes off as flat and manipulative. Oh, I forgot one film—the story of an estranged son.

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This is the most bizarrely melodramatic arc, as if O’Haver thought it would add emotion to a story, but he doesn’t have enough time to devote to it for it to register beyond a cautionary tale on how not use a manipulative score. Advertisement. Clearly, any one of these films might have worked. Make the kidnappers the protagonists and tell the story of a trio of ne’er- do- wells who stumble into a life- changing crime. Make the journalist the protagonist, and procedurally show us how he solved the kidnapping the police ignored. You could even tell the life story of the O’Hairs in a way that focuses on her family, and ends with the headline- grabbing kidnapping. You simply can’t tell all of these stories effectively in a 9. It results in a film that is simultaneously too much and nothing at all because it’s jumping around so much narratively.

And none of this haphazard storytelling is helped by a complete lack of visual language. Through it all, a few performances actually increase the disappointment, for one wishes they were in a better film.

Leo is perfect casting as a woman whose acerbic personality helped define her. Every time I see Josh Lucas, I wish he was in more movies, and he uses his physically imposing presence here in a way he’s not often allowed to. And then there’s Adam Scott, increasingly one of those actors who makes everything better.

At one point, he says, “I thought there might be a story here.” There is, but “The Most Hated Woman in America” doesn’t really tell it.

Might Be the Most Hated Movie of the Year. There are risky horror movies, and then there’s mother!

Marketed as a home invasion thriller with a spiky psychological twist, it’s hard to imagine anyone was prepared for the unconventional horrors that director Darren Aronofsky was readying to toss at unsuspecting viewers. To hear the movie’s chaotic trailers tell it, mother! Rosemary’s Baby updated for 2. Enter Ed Harris, an odd, ill man over- curious with the writer’s work who manages to secure an unwelcome stay in their home and thanks them by inviting his brash, often tipsy wife (Michelle Pfeiffer) to visit him as well. There are those moments of supernatural interference, as Jennifer Lawrence’s character (referred to only as Mother) pokes and prods at what we can only presume to be a home with a living heart of its own. But then? All hell breaks loose, as Aronofsky sets the audience on an hour long kinetic journey into madness, as invaders of every kind begin to force themselves into the home that Mother has worked so hard to create. And what was initially a horror curio of haunted- house thrills morphs into a living nightmare governed only by dream logic.

It’s audacious, it’s divisive, it’s ambitious—it’s already the most hated movie of the year. [WARNING: Mild spoilers for mother! It’s a wolf in creepy sheep’s clothing, bearing an intriguing (if menacing) trailer and a certified fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Watch Who`S Minding The Store? 4Shared. No doubt horror fans, those who turned out in droves to see It just last week, have already been beguiled to step into the theater by the movie’s clever sell and glittering cast. And while it shares an R- rating with last week’s box office sensation, It is kids’ stuff compared to mother!, the kind of movie that demands you stumble out of the theater with your brain unspooled, unsure if you’d accomplished something by remaining in your seat for the film’s full run- time. In the press screening I attended, a notable portion of critics stepped out of the theater.) That isn’t to say it’s not a good film: mother!

Is it a simple allegory for climate change and environmental destruction? Absolutely. Is it a pseudo- feminist fairytale about the way men drain their muses for the purposes of their own selfish art? Definitely. Is it a belabored deconstruction of a religious parable?

As with all of Aronofsky’s movies, the biblical symbolism is here in droves. There are those that will argue it exists only for shock value, but Aronofsky, though happy to elicit any strong reaction from the audience, positive or negative, really doesn’t seem to be trolling us. Or at least, he doesn’t seem to be trolling us on purpose. “I think the movie is punk rock, it’s very provocative,” Aronofsky said when I brought up Anthony Bourdain’s early prediction that it was sure to “upset the fuck out of people.” “It’s the type of film that’s meant to shake people… It’s important when you make a scary movie that you really rock people. That’s the goal. A lot of horror films, they go cute a little bit, they’re not going all the way.” There’s certainly nothing cute about mother!—that’s not an adjective that often comes up when discussing a film that includes the graphic consumption of a baby. Paramount, who released Aronofsky’s previous (similarly divisive) Noah, took what could only be construed as a massive gamble letting this film hit 2. Watch Girl Walks Into A Bar Online Facebook on this page. Risky, certainly, but that too was on purpose.“I think the second half of the film is a crazy, crazy thing that I don’t think audiences want to know what’s going to hit them,” Aronofsky told me when I raised the question of its vague marketing campaign.

It seems as though the filmmaker, always a provocateur, has made a movie designed specifically to leave the audience challenged and disgruntled. It’s the type of film that people will want to take in and explode with it, or they resist.” Resist seemed to be the name of the game during mother!’s opening weekend, where it nabbed an “F” cinemascore—a rare honor bestowed previously upon odd and misunderstood movies like Lindsay Lohan’s I Know Who Killed Me and Richard Kelly’s beyond weird The Box—and significantly underperformed in its first wide release weekend. It’s Jennifer Lawrence’s lowest box office opening in a starring role since her breakout in Winter’s Bone, and an iffy opening for such a star- studded project. It’s only fair to say that despite the sizable backlash from audiences, neither of the film’s stars regret signing on to the project. Lawrence has been unshy about labeling the film “a masterpiece” (even if she also informed Aronofsky of his “severe psychological problems” after reading the script for the first time); and co- star Javier Bardem hailed the film as an impressive artistic move: “I was very encouraged to see Darren [Aronofsky] taking this turn… that he would take the chance to really express these themes and issues that he’s worried about or concerned, or interested in, in such an open, honest way without any frame.” At the film’s NYC premiere just last week, Jennifer Lawrence stepped on stage just before the film began, all smiles in a white tulle dress: “You’re laughing and smiling now,” she noted, “but you’re all going to really hate me in about an hour and a half. So the first thing I want to do is apologize.” It’s a message Paramount might have suggested adding to the movie’s pre- roll, a quick reminder from America’s sweetheart that you’re just about in for one of the more grotesque and assaulting theatrical experiences of the year. And while there was no official warning, that immediate backlash prompted the studio to release a statement that embraced mother!’s divisive reception: “We don’t want all movies to be safe. And it’s okay if people don’t like it.” Love it or hate it, it seems both Paramount and Aronofsky have gotten their way: “For me,” the filmmaker told me, “[This has] always been the goal.

To make movies that inspire conversation.” When it comes to mother!, audiences are sure to be talking for weeks to come.