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(SPOILERS) While She Was Out was a peculiar little film only released in 5 theaters throughout Texas in 2008. Why? Guessing the inane plot twists didn’t test well and the dialogue was considered “somewhere between kindergarten and film school.” This film could almost have been summarized as “an abused suburban housewife tangles with murderous, would-be gang-bangers over a shitty parking job outside a packed shopping mall on Christmas eve” or simply “She almost got killed over a parking spot.”
Della, who’s husband is terrible and violent, takes off to get some more wrapping paper for christmas. While trying to find a parking space, she gets upset and leaves a shitty note on a car that’s taking two spaces. When she returns to the vehicle to leave, a bunch of teenagers decide they’re going to steal her money or kidnap her or rape her or something. A rent-a-cop shows up and gets killed by the ‘gang’. Della takes off in the vehicle and the chase begins. First she crashes into some material in a construction zone of new homes. She grabs a toolbox and hides. The gang shows up and tries to kill her, but she escapes into the woods. One of the gang members dies in the melee and they blame Della. Another 40 minutes of running through the woods with a toolbox and slowly killing the remaining gang members with the various tools, including a lug wrench and screwdriver. Until the end, when it’s just Della and Chuckie (the leader) remaining. Chuckie decides he has the hots for her and tells her she should leave her husband and run away with him. She seems to go along with this and they end up kissing passionately, which is exactly where I said WAIT, NOPE. NO WAY, GTFO.
Whatever goodwill I had going for the movie was completely shattered by this travesty and the next scene, where she implored this guy to have sex with her right there. Ok no. Not in a million years would this ever happen. Yes, she was trying to trick the guy but she killed all his friends and he wanted her dead the entire movie… and of course she was in shock and doing some hardcore murdering. So just stop. Anyway, she lights a flare in his face and takes his gun and shoots him. Then goes home and pulls a gun on her asshole husband. Then the credits roll. I’m sorry if I ruined the movie for you but I just saved you 88 minutes you can use to do something worthwhile instead of yelling at the screen like I did. Best quote from the movie? “There ain’t no gun can kill a spirit gone bad, she’s gone bad.” 3 red toolboxes if you’re being chased out of 10.
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