{"id":31066,"date":"2026-05-22T09:25:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T06:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/msfilmfestival.fi\/?post_type=movies&#038;p=31066"},"modified":"2026-05-22T09:25:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T06:25:23","slug":"she-devil","status":"publish","type":"movies","link":"https:\/\/msfilmfestival.fi\/en\/movies\/she-devil\/","title":{"rendered":"She-Devil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Based on Fay Weldon&#8217;s novel<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Life and Loves of a She-Devil <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(1983), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She-Devil <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">features Ruth Patchett,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">frumpy, physically less blessed and puffy housewife with facial warts (played by Roseanne Barr, fresh from breaking through with her eponymous <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sitcom<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> making her bold screen debut) going through a tough time as her empty-headed husband (Ed Begley Jr.) drifts into a relationship with the wealthy and narcissistic romance novelist Mary Fisher (Meryl Streep, the renowned master of serious drama, in her first comedy role). Swearing diabolical revenge, Ruth draws up a list and destroys the lives of the couple who shattered her harmony, piece by piece, element by element.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contrasts create sparks, and the image-defying casting works brilliantly, with Roseanne daring to embrace \u201cugliness\u201d with the same conviction as Streep did two years earlier in<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Ironweed <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(1987). A particular gem is the writer\u2019s unabashedly sharp-tongued mother (Sylvia Miles).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The black humour cloaked in candy colours cuts far beneath the surface. Ruth, who has set up a new company as a front, rallies her female army together in the true spirit of <i>Sisters Are Doin\u2019 It for Themselves<\/i>, and the descent of Fisher, rendered shrill by a chain of disasters, from diva of divas into the scabby gutter provides cathartic delight. A forgotten eighties comedy gem!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Lauri Timonen<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Based on Fay Weldon&#8217;s novel The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983), She-Devil features Ruth Patchett, a frumpy, physically less blessed and puffy housewife with facial warts (played by Roseanne Barr, fresh from breaking through with her eponymous sitcom making her bold screen debut) going through a tough time as her empty-headed husband (Ed&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/msfilmfestival.fi\/en\/movies\/she-devil\/\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"featured_media":31063,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-31066","movies","type-movies","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","filters-english-dialogue","filters-tekstitetty-ruotsiksi-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>She-Devil &#8212; 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