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* AmbiguousDisorder: As obscure as the movie may be, one of the more popular things about it is that it is obvious that Martha is basically a reskin of the Film/FatalAttraction characterization of Borderline Personality Disorder. She smokes & drinks frequently and will stop at NOTHING to get rid of Helen and keep her son and grandson to herself. She even uses the classic phrase "I won't take no for an answer!" to Jackson at one point in the film.
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* DarkSecret: Jackson blames himself for his father's death when he was a boy. [[spoiler: He's innocent; it was his mother]]
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* AmbiguousDisorder: As obscure as the movie may be, one of the more popular things about it is that it is obvious that Martha is basically a reskin of the "Film/FatalAttraction" characterization of Borderline Personality Disorder. She smokes & drinks frequently and will stop at NOTHING to get rid of Helen and keep her son and grandson to herself. She even uses the classic phrase "I won't take no for an answer!" to Jackson at one point in the film.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: As obscure as the movie may be, one of the more popular things about it is that it is obvious that Martha is basically a reskin of the "Film/FatalAttraction" Film/FatalAttraction characterization of Borderline Personality Disorder. She smokes & drinks frequently and will stop at NOTHING to get rid of Helen and keep her son and grandson to herself. She even uses the classic phrase "I won't take no for an answer!" to Jackson at one point in the film.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: As obscure as the movie may be, one of the more popular things about it is that it is obvious that Martha is basically a reskin of the [[Film/FatalAtttraction]] characterization of Borderline Personality Disorder. She smokes & drinks frequently and will stop at NOTHING to get rid of Helen and keep her son and grandson to herself. She even uses the classic phrase "I won't take no for an answer!" to Jackson at one point in the film.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: As obscure as the movie may be, one of the more popular things about it is that it is obvious that Martha is basically a reskin of the [[Film/FatalAtttraction]] "Film/FatalAttraction" characterization of Borderline Personality Disorder. She smokes & drinks frequently and will stop at NOTHING to get rid of Helen and keep her son and grandson to herself. She even uses the classic phrase "I won't take no for an answer!" to Jackson at one point in the film.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: As obscure as the movie may be, one of the more popular things about it is that it is obvious that Martha is basically a reskin of the [[Film/FatalAtttraction]] characterization of Borderline Personality Disorder. She smokes & drinks frequently and will stop at NOTHING to get rid of Helen and keep her son and grandson to herself. She even uses the classic phrase "I won't take no for an answer!" to Jackson at one point in the film.
*ClingyJealousGirl: It's not very long whatsoever after meeting Helen that Martha stars to display obvious signs of jealousy towards her relationship to Jackson.
* DamselInDistress: Helen for a lot of the movie.
*ClingyJealousGirl: It's not very long whatsoever after meeting Helen that Martha stars to display obvious signs of jealousy towards her relationship to Jackson.
* DamselInDistress: Helen for a lot of the movie.
* ADeadlyAffair: [[spoiler: Jackson's father was killed by his wife when he found out about her infidelity - and she framed her son for it as a way of keeping him tied to her apron strings.]]
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* MyBelovedSmother: Jackson's mother ''really'' wants her son and his impending child to stay in her life.
* ADeadlyAffair: [[spoiler: Jackson's father was killed by his wife when he found out about her infidelity - and she framed her son for it as a way of keeping him tied to her apron strings.]]
* DamselInDistress: Helen for a lot of the movie.
* ADeadlyAffair: [[spoiler: Jackson's father was killed by his wife when he found out about her infidelity - and she framed her son for it as a way of keeping him tied to her apron strings.]]
* DamselInDistress: Helen for a lot of the movie.
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* MyBelovedSmother: Jackson's mother ''really'' wants her son and his impending child to stay in her life.
* ADeadlyAffair:life. [[spoiler: Jackson's father was killed by his wife when he found out about her infidelity - and she framed her son for it as a way of keeping him tied And she's willing to her apron strings.resort to murder to do it.]]
*DamselInDistress: Helen NotGoodWithRejection: At one point, Martha tells Jackson that she "won't take no for an answer". It really says a lot of the movie.about her character.
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A New York couple, Helen (Creator/GwynethPaltrow) and Jackson (Johnathon Schaech), go to visit Jackson's mother (Creator/JessicaLange in a UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward-nominated role) in Kentucky. As you may have gathered from the poster, the prospective-mother-in-law has EvilMatriarch leanings.
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A New York couple, Helen (Creator/GwynethPaltrow) and Jackson (Johnathon Schaech), go to visit Jackson's mother (Creator/JessicaLange in a UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward-nominated role) in Kentucky. As you may have gathered from the poster, the prospective-mother-in-law has EvilMatriarch leanings.
hasn't far from [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Mom]] in mindset.
It's basically a big-screen ''LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek''.
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* DarkSecret: Jackson blames himself for his father's death when he was a boy. [[spoiler: He's innocent; it was his mother]]
* EvilMatriarch: Hoo boy: [[spoiler: she basically orchestrates an attack on a pregnant Helen to get Helen and Jackson to move in with her as part of her aims get her hands on her son and her baby.]]
* MyBelovedSmother: Jackson's mother ''really'' wants her son and his impending child to stay in her life.
* ADeadlyAffair: [[spoiler: Jackson's father was killed by his wife when he found out about her infidelity - and she framed her son for it as a way of keeping him tied to her apron strings.]]
* DamselInDistress: Helen for a lot of the movie.
It's basically a big-screen ''LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek''.
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* DarkSecret: Jackson blames himself for his father's death when he was a boy. [[spoiler: He's innocent; it was his mother]]
* EvilMatriarch: Hoo boy: [[spoiler: she basically orchestrates an attack on a pregnant Helen to get Helen and Jackson to move in with her as part of her aims get her hands on her son and her baby.]]
* MyBelovedSmother: Jackson's mother ''really'' wants her son and his impending child to stay in her life.
* ADeadlyAffair: [[spoiler: Jackson's father was killed by his wife when he found out about her infidelity - and she framed her son for it as a way of keeping him tied to her apron strings.]]
* DamselInDistress: Helen for a lot of the movie.
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A New York couple, Helen (Creator/GwynethPaltrow) and Jackson (Johnathon Schaech), go to visit Jackson's mother (Creator/JessicaLange in a UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward-nominated role) in Kentucky. As you may have gathered from the poster, the prospective-mother-in-law has EvilMatriarch leanings.
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[[caption-width-right:350:I'm sure everything will be fine.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:I'm sure everything will be fine.]]
