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Submit Your ReviewSusan Seidelman directed this loose adaptation of Fay Weldon's novel The Life and Loves of a She-Devil concerning the extreme revenge exacted by a dumpy housewife on her philandering husband. Mary Fisher (Meryl Streep) is a best-selling romance novelist of the manner of Danielle Steel or Jackie ...more
MPAA Rating: PG13 | Year: 1989 | Running Time: 100 minutes
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Director Susan Seidelman specializes in creating comedies that are not especially comic. Sometimes, as in Desperately Seeking Susan, there are enough other virtues to compensate for this lack of humor, but She-Devil falls somewhat short of the mark. The basic revenge premise has potential; indeed, in one form or another it has been used in dozens of other successful movies. But Seidelman and screenwriters Mark R. Burns and Barry Strugatz have made the character of the wronged wife so unlikable ...more
- Meryl Streep - Mary Fisher
- Roseanne - Ruth Patchett
- Ed Begley, Jr. - Bob Pachett
- Linda Hunt - Hooper
- Sylvia Miles - Mrs. Fisher
- Cynthia Adler - Vesta Rose Commercial Voice
- Fred Bond - Apollo
- June Gable - Realtor
- George Kodisch - Court Officer
- Robin Leach - Himself
- Larry Marshall - Guggenheim Party Guest
- Deborah Rush - "People" Reporter
- Albert Roscoe - Maurice Taylor
- Sally Jessy Raphael - Herself
- Susan Seidelman - Director
- G. Mac Brown - Producer
- Barry Strugatz - Screenwriter
- Mark R. Burns - Screenwriter
- Fay Weldon - Book Author
- Tom Warren - Art Director
- Jonathan Brett - Co-producer
- Susan Seidelman - Co-producer
- Albert Wolsky - Costume Designer
- Craig McKay - Editor
- Howard Shore - Composer (Music Score)
- Joseph Campayno - Makeup
- Santo Loquasto - Production Designer
- Oliver Stapleton - Cinematographer
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