Continuity mistake: When Jennifer Lopez is in the car with her daughter, she eats a doughnut. In each shot, there's more bites, but a little time has passed and she only takes little bites.
Enough (2002)
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Directed by: Michael Apted
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Juliette Lewis, Billy Campbell, Dan Futterman, Tessa Allen
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-60/10. Whenever I see a Jennifer Lopez movie I know it's automatically going to stink. This movie doing the cliched ex husband's an jerk thing. Why can't they move beyond this now real old angle? Right, like the wives can't be abusive. J'Lo's a lousy singer and a lousy actress.
Enough has Jennifer Lopez starring as an abused mother who has to go on the run and then stand up to her cheating, awful husband Mitch, played by Billy Campbell. She attempts to turn the tables on Mitch while saving herself and her daughter Gracie in a physical fight after learning the martial art Krav Maga. Wasted characters, very linear plot and a wish-fulfillment ending dressed as "empowerment" subtract from the overall story's impact, unfortunately.
Domestic abuse thriller which focuses on overemphasizing melodrama at the expense of story and characters to make popcorn fans howl when J-Lo gives hubby a taste of his own medicine. This is especially true in regard to the husband's lack of context for his nature and making him into the cliched "Abusive men are all heartless psychopaths" type. It's never explained what he really desires from Slim or his own self-serving agenda, nor how he has all the resources in the world to become an omnipotent predator AKA plot contrivances to move the story along.
Acting was the best aspect, especially from Campbell. J-Lo was serviceable, but this foreshadowed her even more uninspiring role for The Boy Next Door.
I liked it better when it was called Sleeping with the Enemy, which they actually showed you the mind of both spouses and how their actions correlated with each other. None of that here except for Hollywood putting out the generic pure good hero vs, pure evil villain theme.
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Ginny: You have a divine animal right to protect your own life and the life of your offspring.
Trivia: Sandra Bullock was originally cast to play the lead, Slim, but was unavailable due to another film's schedule.
Question: I found it odd that Slim's real name is never revealed. Why does she have this nickname, with no explanation as to why she never tells anyone her real name? Was there a deleted scene?
Answer: From memory her daughter says "I don't even think you're that slim" making a dig she's not that skinny, maybe it's due to her being thin?
Answer: I wonder if the nickname is related to the difficult times in her life. Her father was not around. She and her mother did not have much money. Maybe she felt that she had a "slim chance" of life getting easier.