Enough

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Enough

Promotional film poster
Directed by Michael Apted
Produced by Rob Cowan
Irwin Winkler
Written by Nicholas Kazan
Starring Jennifer Lopez
Billy Campbell
Juliette Lewis
Dan Futterman
Fred Ward
Tessa Allen
Noah Wyle
Music by David Arnold
Cinematography Rogier Stoffers
Editing by Rick Shaine
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date(s) May 24, 2002
Running time 116 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $38,000,000[1]
Gross revenue $51,801,187

Enough is a 2002 American thriller film starring Jennifer Lopez as Slim, a young waitress who one day meets the man of her dreams, Mitch (Billy Campbell), in the diner where she works. A few years later, they have a young daughter, Gracie (Tessa Allen), and it is revealed that her "perfect" husband is cheating on her and becomes abusive towards her.

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[edit] Cast

[edit] Plot

Slim is a working-class waitress at a southern California diner. Mitch, a customer, defends her honor from obscene comments by another customer. They quickly fall in love, marry and have a baby girl named Gracie.

Mitch is a rich and powerful man, however, and soon Slim begins to discover a dark side to him. One day she discovers that he has been cheating on her. Though Mitch apologizes to her, his infidelity doesn't stop. Slim discovers this when Mitch leaves his pager on the table. Slim calls the number back and finds his mistress on the other end. As Slim berates him for cheating on her, Mitch slaps and also punches Slim in the face which cuts her. Mitch believes that his money and power will give him anything, and he threatens to kill her, saying that he refuses to live without her. The police cannot help, because the best they can do is jail him for a short period, and meanwhile she would risk losing her daughter to state family protection programs because drugs would be planted on her or her objects like her purse. Slim would also be at the risk of Mitch killing her while out on bail.

Slim escapes with Gracie with the help of her friends but Mitch stops all her credit cards and freezes her accounts. Slim and Gracie then flee to a motel, but Mitch finds them. After a thrilling chase, Slim and Gracie are able escape on a public bus. They move to Seattle, where she meets with her former boyfriend, Joe, who still has feelings for her. Meanwhile Mitch turns to Robbie, his contact in the Los Angeles Police Department, the same man who had verbally abused Slim at the diner. It emerges that Mitch and Robbie had scammed several women using the "good guy/bad guy" bet for sex trick, and Mitch has had several mistresses. Mitch locates Joe's residence and sends three men there under the guise of FBI agents to search for Slim and Gracie. One of the men threatens Joe with a pocket knife, but in the end they are unsuccessful.

Slim and Gracie flee again, with the help of her estranged father Jupiter and her former boss/father figure Phil, but are tracked down in northern Michigan, where they are confronted by Mitch face-to-face this time. Slim manages to break free and later sends Gracie to stay for a month with Ginny, her friend who works at the same diner. Meanwhile, with Jupiter's help, Slim trains in Krav Maga, preparing herself emotionally and physically for self-defense. She prepares herself for a visit to Mitch's new beach house to hopefully get him to leave her alone.

She breaks into Mitch's new house and removes all potential weapons, and familiarizes herself with the layout of the place. She plants letters in Mitch's drawer which say that Slim and Mitch would meet to talk about the custody hearing over Gracie. This way Slim would have a reason to be at Mitch's house, and she would be able to kill him and say it was self defense. When Mitch returns home, she attacks him and overwhelms him;however, she cannot bring herself to kill him. She calls Ginny and asks what she should do, but Mitch recovers and knocks her to the ground with a lamp. Ginny becomes hysterical on the phone and Mitch hangs up. Slim recovers and manages to turn the tables on Mitch. He falls two floors and dies after landing on a glass table on his back.

The police arrive and tell Slim that Ginny had called the police to save her. She then tells the officer that Mitch is inside, but no longer armed or dangerous. The officer tells Slim that it looks like she's "one of the lucky ones". She goes to the airport and reunites with Gracie. In the final scene, she is seen picking up play jewelry with Gracie and Ginnie, laughing. Soon after, Slim and Gracie decides to move back to Seattle to live with Joe, and eventually, without living in fear anymore, Slim started a new life with her daughter and Joe.

[edit] Critical reception

The film received mostly mixed reviews from critics. On the review aggregator Metacritic, the film had an average score of 25 out of 100, based on 32 reviews.[2] On Rotten Tomatoes, 21% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 121 reviews. However it it make high ratings in the box office[3]

[edit] Box office performance

The film ranked #5 at the U.S box office its opening weekend, grossing $14 million in 2,623 theaters.[4] The film had a budget of $38 million and grossed $40 million domestically. Worldwide, the film grossed a total of $51.8 million.[1]

[edit] DVD and VHS

The DVD release of Enough came out on October 8, 2002 and the special edition was released on September 16, 2003. A VHS edition was released on March 4, 2003.

[edit] Soundtrack

Enough
Film score by David Arnold
Released June 4, 2002
Recorded 2002
Genre Film soundtrack
Label Varèse Sarabande
Professional reviews

The score for Enough, composed by David Arnold, was released on June 4, 2002.[5]

  1. "Give Me a Sign"
  2. "F.B.I.?"
  3. "New Leaf"
  4. "Slim and Joe"
  5. "Get Out of the House"
  6. "Goodbye Gracie"
  7. "Training Day"
  8. "Breaking In"
  9. "Setting the Trap"
  10. "Fight Club"
  11. "One of the Lucky Ones"

Songs appearing in the film not included with the release of the soundtrack:[6]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b "Enough (2002)". Box Office Mojo. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=enough.htm. Retrieved 2007-09-26. 
  2. ^ "Enough (2002): Reviews". Metacritic. http://www.metacritic.com/video/titles/enough. Retrieved 2007-09-26. 
  3. ^ "Enough". Rotten Tomatoes. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/enough/. Retrieved 2007-09-26. 
  4. ^ "Enough (2002) - Weekend Box Office". Box Office Mojo. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&id=enough.htm. Retrieved 2007-09-26. 
  5. ^ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000067APO/internetmoviedat/
  6. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278435/soundtrack

[edit] External links

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