While She Was Out

Name: While She Was Out
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Released: December 12, 2008
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 40
Cast: Craig Sheffer, Kim Basinger, Lukas Haas

2008

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Anchor Bay Films | Release Date: December 12, 2008 | R

Starring: Craig Sheffer, Kim Basinger, Lukas Haas

Summary: A suburban housewife is forced to fend for herself when she becomes stranded in a desolate forest with four murderous thugs. What starts of as a quick trip to the mall ends in the woods with a fight for her life. All she has is a will to survive. (Proud Mary Entertainment)

Director: Susan Montford

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 88 min

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Ernest Hardy

The film, executive-produced by Guillermo del Toro, hinges on a first-rate performance by Basinger, who imbues Della with a fire that makes the film's basic thesis -- both the domestic sphere and the larger world are dangerous places for women -- seem something more than boilerplate. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Embracing outraged victimhood the way Angelina Jolie embraces a close-up, Ms. Basinger, doing double duty here as an executive producer, appears oblivious to the script's idiocies. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

Directed by Susan Montford, While She Was Out is a straight-to-DVD movie making a brief stop in theaters. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Writer-director Susan Montford eschews all plot and character development for the hackneyed action scenes and grade-Z dialogue, while struggling to stretch the paper-thin story into a feature length film. Read full review

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JayH.

Apr 24, 2009

It's a bit far fetched, but I did find it compelling and fast paced. It certainly had some tense scenes. The performances were fine, effective score. It is a good length, I thought it was good. Interesting ending.

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thedanneskjold

Dec 4, 2014

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I created an account just for this film. It's that bad.
**Spoilers ahead**, although this is such trash I don't see why you'd care.

Of the seven men shown in this movie, five are killed by Basinger in mostly bloody fashion - only one of these killings is a blatant murder though, and since we're supposed to believe that all men are evil, sadistic, bumbling, arrogant idiots, it's okay to murder them. Because, FEMINISM!

Between leaps of logic, stretching a twenty-minute story over what feels like a twenty-hour long film, blatant misandry, plot holes, absurd unrealism in every aspect, and a script presumably written by the same scriptwriters of Troll 2, it really doesn't do feminist "entertainment" any favors. If you've got to be sexist, at least be entertaining.

So I give this a 1/10. Why not a 0? Because in my opinion, a movie can be bad enough to at least be fun to make fun of.
This isn't.

It is about as exciting as a colostomy bag, and full of the same thing.… Expand

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LizaT

Dec 5, 2009

This film just stinks.

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KiaraFNS

Jul 26, 2015

Terrible plot, Kim looks stupid and we're led to believe that it's ok to run around the forest, with no orientation or whatsoever, and just kill anybody standing in your way. Plain ridiculous.

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kdg88

Sep 30, 2011

The worst, most stupidly offensive film I have ever seen. I want my money back. I want my time back. I want the writer, director and Basinger to go away and never do anything else I might accidentally see in the future. Wait, the writer and director were one in the same. Her name isThe worst, most stupidly offensive film I have ever seen. I want my money back. I want my time back. I want the writer, director and Basinger to go away and never do anything else I might accidentally see in the future. Wait, the writer and director were one in the same. Her name is Susan Montford? Great, now I know who to forever avoid.… Expand

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KevinG

Jun 25, 2010

Quite literally, the worst movie I have ever suffered through. Stupid screenplay + poor acting + incompetent direction = TURD.

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