
Don Champagne seems to have it all: a successful business, a perfect house, perfect kids and a perfect wife. Unfortunately, when his wife, Mona (Katherine Heigl), learns of Don's affair with a pretty new salesgirl (Jordana Brewster), this suburban slice of heaven spirals out of control. Don soon realizes that Mona will stop at nothing, including murder, to maintain their storybook life where "perception is everything".... (Full plot summary below)
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Don Champagne seems to have it all: a successful business, a perfect house, perfect kids and a perfect wife. Unfortunately, when his wife, Mona (Katherine Heigl), learns of Don's affair with a pretty new salesgirl (Jordana Brewster), this suburban slice of heaven spirals out of control. Don soon realizes that Mona will stop at nothing, including murder, to maintain their storybook life where "perception is everything".
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| VarietyJustin ChangHeigl’s performance as a coolly murderous model housewife is the only real reason to even consider watching Home Sweet Hell, an otherwise flailing and risible tale of adultery, extortion and suburban malaise that suggests a poor woman’s “Gone Girl” — one stripped of all tension, style and subtext, and instead rendered with a level of over-the-top gore that would give even David Fincher pause. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreObvious and jaw-droppingly bloody, it still gives Heigl her funniest role in years. |
| Village VoicePete Vonder HaarHome Sweet Hell is a pleasantly unpleasant dark comedy, one that gives new meaning to "detached and subdivided" in the mass production zone. |
| Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinA muddle of tired themes, bad behaviors and gruesome set pieces. |
| JoBlo's Movie EmporiumJimmyO... best viewed in the comfort of your own home on late night cable. |
| Aisle SeatMike McGranaghanSome scenes march fearlessly into the darkest of dark comedy recesses, while others are played quite broadly, to let us know that we shouldn't take all this nastiness too seriously. The latter half of that equation is deadly for dark comedies. |
| Chicago Daily HeraldDann GireHome Sweet Hell musters too little wit and too few laughs to sustain this humorous autopsy of suburban life. |
| The DissolveKate ErblandAlthough the film appears to be aiming for pitch-black humor, it’s all so mirthless that the result is genuinely ugly. |
| RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyThe fact that a woman has Crohn's disease is meant to be hilarious, in a nudge-nudge wink-wink "You know she's not giving her husband any sex" kind of way. It's wretched. |
| Film Journal InternationalMaitland McDonagh[Home Sweet Hell is] nothing more or less than a toothless satire of suburban conformity that might have felt a little more dangerous six decades ago. |