Better Housekeeping

Name: Better Housekeeping
Genre: Comedy
Released: November 20, 2002
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 53

2002

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Modernica Pictures | Release Date: November 20, 2002 | R

Summary: Follows the escalation of hostilities between an action doll collectibles salesman and his forklift-driving wife.

Director: Frank Novak

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 90 min

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Robert Koehler

A triumph of indie casting of unknowns, Good Housekeeping is knee-deep in delicious thesping. Read full review

Ted Shen

In this uproarious and often scathing debut feature, writer-director Frank Novak charts the dissolution of a working-class marriage. Read full review

Roger Ebert

Plunges far beneath Todd Solondz's territory and enters the suburbs of John Waters' universe in its fascination for people who live without benefit of education, taste, standards, hygiene and shame. I Read full review

Dave Kehr

As broad and cartoonish as the screenplay is, there is an accuracy of observation in the work of the director, Frank Novak, that keeps the film grounded in an undeniable social realism. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

Though the performances are uniformly good -- Adams is a standout -- the movie plays like one long, meandering sketch inspired by the works of John Waters and Todd Solondz, rather than a fully developed story. Read full review

Jami Bernard

Gives cinema vérité texture to a fictional story of trailer-trash dysfunction (minus the trailer). Read full review

Ed Park

Too stupid to be satire, too obviously hateful to be classified otherwise, Frank Novak's irritating slice of lumpen life is as reliably soul-killing as its title is nearly meaningless. ("Good Housekeeping" magazine's legal muscle forced a last-minute change.) Read full review

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