Cousin Bette

Please make this movie available for purchase! I enjoyed every second of it! Thank you iTunes!

I saw nothing funny about this movie. I barely cracked an amused grin. All I saw was a woman who was being pushed around by her proud, stuck up family. They never even suspected Bette for being behind their misery! At first I sympathized with Bette but then she turned into this manipulative, possessive monster of a woman. She should have just let that artist guy be as her niece's marriage to him was falling apart anyway. Let me save you the 2 hours I wasted: Bette ruins everyone's lives; she gets her niece to kill her artist husband and get her sent to prison and keep her baby and live with the father who had a stroke and can't talk or move anymore.

I had such hopes for this movie being suggested with things such as An Ideal Husband with words like 'Comedy' and 'Outrageous Mind Games'.... Sadly the entire movie was nothing but how many ways can poor Bette be mistreated by her family and those she loves, even her plan to cuckold the author of her anger backfires on her reducing her plans to little more than snappish behavior and instigating marital havoc that results with her getting what she wanted yes, but in a completely unsatisfying and uncomedic way. The costuming was fantastic though and faithfulness to the era I applaud, however this movie is sadly miscatagorized as a 'Comedy'. As a Historical Drama, I'd give it 4 stars, as a comedy it's good to get 1, and I'll give it an extra star for the fantastic costumes.... but that's it. If you're looking for a good 'mind games' sort of comedy in a historical vein, watch An Ideal Husband or Emma. Not this.