Home Sweet Hell

Plot synopsis:
Don Champagne (Patrick Wilson) runs a successful furniture business. His wife Mona (Katherine Heigl) has everything planned according to the book of her goals. One day an attractive young woman named Dusty (Jordana Brewster) applies for the job as saleswoman at Don’s store. After consulting with his partner Les (Jim Belushi), Don hires Dusty.
Don is desperate because of his poor sex life with his wife. Shortly, Dusty seduces him and they start having an affair. Later, Dusty shows up at the birthday party of Don and Mona’s son Andrew (Aiden Flowers). She tells Don that she is pregnant and wants to keep the baby. Don is desperate and Les advises him to pay Dusty money.
Meanwhile, it is revealed, that Dusty is actually the abused girlfriend of a criminal named Murphy (A.J. Buckley) and she is lying to Don about the pregnancy. Don offers Dusty $13,000, which she refuses, telling Don that it will not be enough. Don is not sure whether Dusty will keep her mouth shut, and Les advises him to tell Mona the truth before she finds it out from Dusty. Don confesses to Mona and she demands that Don kill Dusty.
Murphy is not satisfied with the amount of money, so Dusty calls Don and demands $25,000. Don agrees, but instead prepares poison for Dusty together with Mona. Dusty shows up to take the money and drinks the poisoned drink. Don and Mona put an unconscious Dusty in the car and take her home. Dusty wakes up, so Mona has to kill her with the hammer. Later she saws Dusty's body into pieces and buries it in the garden, and reveals to Don that Dusty wasn't actually pregnant.
Murphy and his friends, Freeman (Kevin McKidd) and Benji (Heath Freeman), discover Dusty is missing, and suspect that something went wrong and attack Les. Murphy also threatens Don by leaving his son a letter, in which he demands a meeting at a strip club. Don meets Murphy and his gang and convinces them that Dusty went to Dallas. Murphy tells Don that she had his money and threatens to rape his family if he does not pay him $20,000 the next day.
Don and Mona dig out the body of Dusty and go to the place where the gang lives. While Mona is trying to hide body parts in the freezer, Freeman comes home with his girlfriend. Mona mortally wounds Freeman, stabs and kills his girlfriend, and shortly calls the police to report a disturbance at the house. Before dying, Freeman calls Murphy and tells him what happened. Murphy and Benji arrive and find Freeman and his girlfriend dead. Murphy also discovers parts of Dusty in the freezer and realizes he has been set up. Soon the police arrive and find Murphy and Benji at the crime scene. The police shoot Benji, while Murphy escapes. The police decide that Murphy and Benji were responsible for the murders.
While alone, Don asks Mona about the reason that she is cold-blooded, and if it was due to her upbringing. Mona threatens to kill him if he asks her that question again. At a house party the next day, Don finds the neighbor's dog dead in his freezer, and Mona displays very antisocial behavior with their guests. Afraid, Don stages an accident to kill Mona. After her death, Don and his children move to a new house and are seen in the driveway getting into a new car and driving away. The movie ends with Murphy going after their car. The screen turns black and the end credits roll. Two shots are heard followed by a prolonged honk and children's screams, indicating that Murphy had killed Don.

Tags: murder

Review:
It seems, and there's a bit of assuming in this, that 9 out 10 one star ratings come from females and/or families with little ones surprised (upset even) that this film turned out to be a bloody dark comedy.
This film is not supposed to make sense from a detailed perspective, nor is it supposed to be filled with introspective self-aware characters, because that is how all of these people got into this fix in the first place.The first tip-off that this is just a farce is the family name of the protagonist...Don CHAMPAGNE???
She has sex scheduled for Don six times a year, and Don being a healthy guy in his thirties, this is just not enough, but strangely enough he still loves his wife.Enter stage left Dusty, a beautiful girl in her early 20s who answers Don's ad for a saleswoman.
Partial karma for Don not offering his employees insurance, partial karma for not running to the nearest exit on his wedding day to Mona.Don has been a real milquetoast so far, and that is probably part of the reason he and Mona are married, but he does summon the courage to tell Mona that Dusty is pregnant, keeping the baby, and demanding money.
Watch and find out.I'd recommend this one because it is a pretty well made dark comedy with lots of plot twists and turns.
In spite of the subject matter there is practically nothing in the way of explicit violence although there is plenty in the way of implication, such as when Mona comes in from the garage after dismembering Dusty wearing only her underwear and covered in blood.
My friend Bryan recommended that I watch Home Sweet Hell, thinking that I would enjoy it.
This movie is a twisted little black comedy about a man who cheats on his frigid, OCD wife with a woman he hires to work in his furniture store...a woman he believes is sincerely sweet and genuinely interested in him as a man.
That is as close as I can get to sharing spoilers, aside from the fact that anyone who saw the trailers for the movie is already aware that the wife informs her unfaithful spouse that the only solution is for him to kill the woman he had been having the affair with...so that part should be no surprise.
Patrick Wilson manages to succeed in coming across as the bumbling, panic prone, jackass of a husband without any difficulty, but the true star of this movie is Katherine Heigl.
I like this sort of movie though, this sort of dark humor is just my kind of thing...though I tend to prefer things that go a little bit more perverse and a bit darker in my comedy, this one manages to satisfy..
Home Sweet Hell is basically a dark comedy.It's not a comedy per se because it has jokes or funny situations.
It gives the proper tone especially when the movie take its dark turn.The direction is OK I guess but nothing to write home about it.The plot soon becomes evident, but there are some twists even after the final credits start to roll.Jim (not James!) Belushi is here too.
Don Champagne (Patrick Wilson) seems to live the American Dream; he has a successful family business selling furniture; he lives in a comfortable house in the suburbs; he has the perfect wife Mona Champagne (Katherine Heigl) and the perfect children Allison (Madison Wolfe) and Andrew (Aiden Flowers).
When Don hires the gorgeous saleswoman Dusty (Jordana Brewster) to work with his salesman Les (Jim Belushi), they have a torrid love affair.
Without any way out, Don discloses his affair with Dusty to Mona and she tells that he must kill Dusty to protect their family.
But what they do not know is that Dusty is a swindler and lover of a dangerous gangster and his gang wants to take money from the Champagne family."Home Sweet Hell" is a very dark joke with the American Dream.
I enjoyed watching it in parts, but frankly I am disappointed for this potential theme was misused for ineffectual narration.Looks like inspired by 'Serial Mom'.
When a little, strange but a happy family who are living by the storybook of their own was threatened by the dark side of the life, they are ready to jump into the hell to save it.
Nice Dark comedy ,, the drama overpowered the comedy in a few parts of the movie but the whole thing worked out just okay with a bit of unexpected thrill..
Loved the story since i'v seen the trailer but the movie started just a little bit slow like they've needed 35 minutes to build up to the main plot of a 80 minutes movie !!
well after that it peaked to the level i expected, As i thought they would give a little unpredictable surprise to make it look different than what they revealed in the trailer, Well there were a bunch of them,,The last 20 minutes had A Boom Boom.
and it surprisingly got thrilling in a way , i gotta be honest thou the Dark Comedy side seemed to be overpowered by the Drama one in some minutes,, Apart from the dorky innocent tense comic acting (which i sorta liked) by "Patrick Wilson" i didn't see any :P but again that was the whole idea and it worked out nicely after the middle of the movie ...
maybe it was just me because i really wanted to watch a pure comedy movie ;)The cast is nice ,, i love "Katherine Heigl" i mean she's so HOT and yeah talented too ;D, her role here didn't give her more of her funny side but she engaged well in the character ...
"Patrick Wilson" also did a good job, the appearance of "James Belushi" was also cool ;)Overall the movie worked out just fine,, and it was enjoyable on an bit above average..
From everything I have heard about Katherine Heigle in the news this seems like the perfect part for her.
It is a dark comedy of an unhappy, sex-deprived husband and his control freak wife that made the whole plot full of twist and turns with sex, drugs and murder not suitable for young children.
This film tells the story of a furniture salesman who seems to have the perfect suburban life.
He has an affair with an employee, and his life and his wife goes awfully wrong.I thought "Home Sweet Hell" was a romantic comedy, but it turns out it's actually a new hybrid of romantic comedy slasher!
Katherine Heigl plays an obsessional turns psychopathic wife, breaking her run as the new queen of romantic comedy.
The whole film is quite funny, despite some gruesome scenes not typically in a romantic comedy.
Overall, I enjoyed watching "Home Sweet Hell"..
I like a good dark comedy, in fact 'VERY BAD THINGS (1998)' and 'HEATHERS (1988)' are some of my favorite movies.Other dark comedy favorites include 'THE BIG WHITE (2005)', 'JUST BURIED (2007)' and 'THE LAST SUPPER (1995)', heck I even enjoyed Patrick Wilson's previous dark comedy 'LET'S KILL WARD'S WIFE (2014)'.But THIS 'HOME SWEET HELL (2015)' simply isn't very good...
In fact it's pretty poor.Starts out reasonable enough but once things start getting 'dark' it simply lacks bite and just pile on with clichés.There's really not a whole lot more to say about it, I guess it's cool that Katherine Heigl plays a different role than usual but she really got nothing on Cameron Diaz when it comes to playing the crazy wife role.Nice to see A.J. Buckley in a movie though, too bad it wasn't a particularly good one.I like Patrick Wilson but he can't save this, and Don Champagne has got to be one of the worst character-names in recent years..
I had fun watching this movie, I didn't read anything about it so it was all a surprise to me.
it s not the best movie of all time and i don't know why, but i cant find anything bad about it.
Just like in an action movie where the star gets punched kicked shot at, and makes a car do things that are just impossible, suspend belief for 90 minutes and allow yourself to be entertained.
'Home Sweet Hell' is the epitome of a film that will never be watched by the mainstream.
We're introduced to a professional couple (Patrick Wilson and Katherine Heigl) - he is a weak-willed, spineless excuse of a man who is desperate to have an affair with anything in a skirt.
And, as I mentioned, when he finally gets 'lucky' enough to have an affair with an attractive employee, you know it's never going to end well.
Let's just say that what follows is a twisted tale of blackmail, murder and double-crossing.Now, those are traits you may expect from the film's villains (of which there are also the 'traditional' type who come in the form of a pair of meth-heads).
However, the fact that those we're supposed to root for, i.e. Wilson and Heigl, also display those - ahem - 'admirable little traits, mean these are hardly your regular 'heroes.' Some may claim that they could be called 'anti-heroes,' however they do little to earn this label, as they're hardly fighting the forces of darkness for the good of mankind, merely to save their own skins (and reputations!).
James Belushi is a nice guy in the story, but he's just an additional character who we never really get to know.Now, please don't think I'm coming across as 'harsh' on this film - I actually quite liked it!
HOME SWEET HELL is yet another movie that doesn't live up to its trailer.
You have Katherine Heigl playing to her strengths as a cold, manipulative (insert preferred derogatory term for females) who is wife to one of the most weak-minded, ineffectual husbands ever put to film (played by Patrick Wilson).
To the film's credit, I did enjoy the performances by Patrick Wilson and Katherine Heigl.
Overall, HOME SWEET HELL has a few good moments but still manages to squander a rather cool concept and the talents of its cast..
pretty funny and you are getting into the film...then boom she takes up a level and you have yourself a really sexy dark comedy with twists and direction changes that keep you on your toes all the while with some great comedy lines in there.Katherine Heigl's performance would warrant a 10..
Katherine Heigl takes her knifes again, but this time not for curing a patient - like she did in Grey's anatomy few years ago - but for a totally different reason.
This movie is a black comedy with a little bit of a drama, soft (very soft) porn and crime.
Overall Home Sweet Hell is the perfect choice for Katherine's Heigl fans, because her performance as a psycho wife is perfect.
To cut a long story short, it's about a successful business man who cheats on his wife with the new shop assistant who gets pregnant for him.
Katherine Heigl plays the psychopathic wife who has there life in order and doesn't want to spoil her perfect suburban family values.
Enjoyable!Round-Up: Katherine Heigl usually stars in romantic comedy, like Knocked Up, The Ugly Truth and Life As We Know It but in this movie she isn't playing the sweet and innocent person who is gullible and struggling to find love.
For once, she has everything that she wants out of life and she won't let anyone come and destroy her perfect little world.
Patrick Wilson was like a little puppy dog all the way through the film, doing exactly what his owner was telling him to do but you can see that there is something in the back of his mind that is telling him that his wife is totally nuts.
Anyway, I'm sure that people will find something to laugh about in this movie but it might be another film that goes under the radar because it didn't blow up at the box office.I recommend this movie to people who are into their comedy/drama/thrillers about a perfect couple whose life's completely change when the husband has an affair with a work colleague.
Although the Good Acting and Energetic Directing make for some Moments of Demented Anti-Suburban Pleasure.Katherine Heigl and Patrick Wilson are a "Happily" Married Couple.
Mona Champagne (Katherine Heigl) likes her life the way it is with everything on her schedule and she has a schedule for everything.
Enter sales girl Dusty (Jordana Brewster) who has an affair with Don. Mona catches on and has murder in her eyes.
Love making is out unless it is on Mona's schedule and we see Don masturbating in one scene that really wasn't necessary but Hollywood is all about filming these things because it can.
Getting back to "Not so" we find that Mona has serious plans to do away with Dusty to insure her perfect world doesn't crumble.
It seems like the movie never really finished as there was one more thing left hanging, but either the Director forgot about that last loose end or he wanted it that way and for us to make up our own ending.
Who knows?In some ways, this could have been a good comedy, but it became serious along the way and I was disappointed.
So if you watch this movie and you don't like how it goes, you should know it won't get any better.
Katherine Heigl was , i mean still is cute , and her history of film making branches like producing and performing proves the aforesaid subject, but in a point of view she is finished , since Knocked Up and further roles she had after that , i think she accepted her ego as to be repeated times and times and her scheme of planning to have better roles is about to go into deep sh#t , now this crap Home Sweet whatever is rolling into deep Sh#t , no new story line is there and the performances are all abhorrent , still if you consider clichés and repetitions to make a movie , you have to put better ideas and give the picture some dinky visage , but u know ?
Home Sweet Hell is a strange but charming movie.
Home Sweet Hell definitely has its moments but it doesn't make a good movie.
;o) ), which in itself looked like a dream sequence, but wasn't meant to be that way or maybe I was just overwhelmed like our main character was too, the movie kicks into a different kind of gear.
But, don't bother watching the spoiler--I mean the "trailer"--for this movie.
Seriously there is nothing funny in this movie and the dark bits are just gross and poorly made.
Worst part of the movie is the chopping of Ms. Brewster by Ms. Heigl.
Don Champagne (Patrick Wilson) appears to live the ideal life, at least the ideal life his wife Mona (Katherine Heigl) desires.
Don hires major league babe Dusty (Jordana Brewster - I need to watch D.E.B.S. again.) who throws herself at him causing blackmail complications that can only have the expected final solution.
"There is ever only my way."Yes. this is another quirky housewife psycho killer film, most of which were a bit better, which is not to say this wasn't entertaining.
Don is a man who is used to his boring life, his wife who makes a schedule for everything , even the days they can have sex.
The pros in this film are: Katherine Heigle who plays the nuts role perfectly, the music is not excellent but fits well, and the humorous lines of Mona.
Katherine Heigl is cast as Mona Champagne, a ball-breaking wife who denies her husband sex unless she has scheduled coitus on her calendar.
Patrick Wilson is simply brilliant as Heigl's milquetoast husband Don Champagne who runs a furniture store.
Everything is done with a wink and "Home Sweet Hell" lives up to its title and is a drastic change of pace for Heigl.
If you are a Heigl fan, you don't want to miss "Home Sweet Hell.".
VIEWS ON FILM review of Home Sweet Hell.
In the tradition of 1998's Very Bad Things comes a black comedy that defies good taste, or a sense of decency, or even a flask of flat-out humility.
Home Sweet Hell is said featurette and it has Katherine Heigl playing Mona Champagne, the impossible wife.
He hires a knockout associate (Dusty played by Jordana Brewster) and eventually has a torrid affair with her (Donny boy isn't getting enough sex at home, the horror).
You know something has gone afoul when well known movie stars team up with a director who doesn't have so much as one other film making credit to his dossier (2010's Skateland).
In the arena of acting, Patrick Wilson has played similar characters before (Little Children comes to mind).
I will say that I did enjoy the acting - as acting.I started watching what I thought could be a sexual farce, and it was fairly good, however - for me, that ended about three quarters of the way through this - whatever.May I say, that others are very welcome to view the film, and enjoy it all you want.Like I said, about three quarters of the way through, it went from peaches and cream with a little lemon tossed in for flavor, but when it turned - it turned sour for me.
Life As We Know It is the last decent Katherine Heigl film I have seen.
I actually like Katherine Heigl in this black comedy role as a more demented version of a Stepford Desperate Housewife.
Jordanna Brewster is skinny and comically sexy as his mistress who blackmails him.This suburban tale of infidelity and murder is a funny black comedy that has some good moments especially between husband and wife.