Hush . Tucson Weekly . 03-16-98

Hush

DIRECTED BY: Jonathan Darby

REVIEWED: 03-16-98

Jessica Lange does an over-the-top crazy lady in the most predictable film since The Ten Commandments. In what is one of the oddest decisions a director has ever made, most of the action in this film occurred 20 years prior to its start, and instead of showing it in flashbacks, it's all told in dialogue. It's as close to radio as a movie can get. On top of that, instead of following the normal thriller formula of tossing in plot twists, maguffins and false scares, everything is precisely what it seems to be and the story--what little there is of it--just heads straight to its obvious conclusion. After what would normally have been the scene right before the murdering mother goes psycho, I turned to my movie companion and said, "Wouldn't it be funny if it ended right here?" And then it did. It ended right there. And nobody got hurt.

--DiGiovanna

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