At the Movies with Fatwayne

The definition of the word telegraph follows:  Informal : to divulge or indicate unwittingly (one’s intention, next offensive move, etc.), as to an opponent or to an audience. Forget about the plot telegraphing it’s direction to the audience. It went way beyond that. You could also be totally ignorant of Morse code and still know where all of this would end up! It all looked totally familiar to me and then it dawned on my slow witted brain that I had, indeed, seen all of this before. This film turns out to be a remake of the equally unsurprising 1992 Single White Female starring Bridget Fonda.

This time out the movie is set on a college campus in Los Angeles, California. Sara Matthews (Minka Kelly) is assigned a roommate named Rebecca Evans (Leighton Meester). Rebecca seems, at first blush, to be very nice but as Sara gets to know her it soon becomes apparent that she very definitely should be confined to the loony bin. At the very least, someone should have padded her side of the dorm room! Rebecca soon becomes obsessed with Sara and will try to protect her from any slights that may arise. How far will she go? There are apparently no limits to what her deranged mind will compel her to do – no limits. To cite a rather minor instance and, I say minor only in comparison to what is to come, she puts Sara’s fuzzy little kitten into a commercial dryer killing it in order to protect her roommate from the dorm monitor.

There are sleazy professors, dorm neighbors, ex boyfriends, current flames and others who will soon suffer the wrath of “batty” Becca. The film does have a scare or two and is not entirely without any redeeming qualities but, at best, it should be considered a ” B” movie. For me, once again, I felt like I had been there – done that.

Rated  -  PG13  -

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