The Other Woman
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Year Released: 2014
Rating: 1.0
Kate (Leslie Mann) suspects her husband Mark (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) is cheating on her with an attorney (Cameron Diaz) - it turns out she's right, but he's also diddling early twenty-something Amber (Kate Upton) as well, so the three ladies get together and decide it's time for revenge. Superficial and flighty, it doesn't even bother giving the Coster-Waldau character any kind of complexity, rendering him a virtual Bobo Doll (as Scummy Male Incarnate) and it makes the ladies act like total buffoons in an attempt to humiliate/emasculate him (Mann goes so far as to drug him with estrogen). Infidelity is a serious marital issue, but the way Mann, Diaz and Upton behave doesn't come across as empowering; Cassavetes' only solid directorial release to date happens to have been written by his father.
