Filmmakers have aways defended movie violence by arguing that they show that violence is bad, but this was probably the first to show a realistic outcome.
Two middled aged women (Sandra Oh and Anne Heche) who hated each other in college run into each other.
It takes place in the near future. The United States has brought back the draft to fight a massive war in the middle east. Sandra Oh tells her son the war is necessary because "they don't do what we say". She's married to a wealthy military contractor.
Anne Heche is a lesbian and an artist who produces anti-war abstract painting. She's not making much money at it so she works as a bartender at a party Sandra Oh attends.
The two women get in a violent fight in a stairwell. It goes on for some time. I won't tell you the outcome but I'll mention that there was a local 50-year-old woman here who decided to become an amateur boxer. I don't know if her age played a role in it, but she wound up in a coma after her first bout.
I thought the movie was too even-handed. Both women were horrible.
Made for a modest $350 thousand.
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