(There are Spoilers) Revenge insanity and murder is the menu in the movie "The Ex" that has successful architect David Kenyon played by a John Cassavetes looking Nick Mancuso who's being stalked together with his wife Molly, Suzy Amis, and five year-old son Michael, Hamish Tildesley, by his deranged ex-wife Deldre, Yancy Butler.
Deldre just released from a mental institution is now back in town to make her Ex-husband David's life as miserable as possible. Working out for hours at a time at the local gym Deldre had developed a hard as rock body and uses it not only to attract men but, after taking them up to her hotel room, to beat their heads into the bathtub wall and then drown them.
David seeing that Deldre is making his life a living hell tries to talk her out of harassing him and his family David also wants Deldre to get help before she ends up killing herself together with those she feels are a threat to her, but to no avail. Deldre is hell-bent to destroy Daivd's marriage and career even if it kill her.
The movie has Deldre impersonate her psychiatrist Dr. Lillian Jonas, Babs Chula, to get to Molly and her rambunctious son Michael without David knowing about it. Finding out the truth about Deldre's plan David kicks her out of his home. Later Deldre traps David in a number of very sticky situations with her attempting to jump out of her hotel window that David saves her from doing. Deldres action left her body black and blue which has her going to Molly, and the police, telling her that David attacked beat and raped her.
Having a video tape of her and David involved in an S&M session while they were married Deldre uses it to prove that he's a pervert and sexual degenerate. All this has David's attorney Mr. Endicott drop the case defending him against the charges that Deldra has filed against David. Dr. Jonas realizing that her patient Deldre is completely out of control confronts her at her apartment threatening to heave Deldre sent back to the institution, that she was just released from, if she doesn't go back their voluntarily herself. This has the crazed Deldre do Dr. Jonas in by shoving her head into a water filled bathtub drowning her.
Obvious and predictable ending with Deldre in her insane attempt to destroy everything that means anything to David, Molly & Michael. Later things begin to turn sour on her with Deldre and her grand master plan of destruction, that took seven year to dream up formulate and put into motion,going down in flames as the movie comes to an end.
Not at all that convincing the movie "The Ex" is a bit to heavy-handed in it's theme about a woman out to get her ex-husband with him not at all that sympathetic. David was, until he met and married Molly, on the same path of self-destruction as Deldre was in his wild lifestyle of drugs sex and all night partying and drinking binges. It was that David's Ex-wife Deldre was so much worse then he was that he didn't come across so unlikable and sleazy.
Deldre just released from a mental institution is now back in town to make her Ex-husband David's life as miserable as possible. Working out for hours at a time at the local gym Deldre had developed a hard as rock body and uses it not only to attract men but, after taking them up to her hotel room, to beat their heads into the bathtub wall and then drown them.
David seeing that Deldre is making his life a living hell tries to talk her out of harassing him and his family David also wants Deldre to get help before she ends up killing herself together with those she feels are a threat to her, but to no avail. Deldre is hell-bent to destroy Daivd's marriage and career even if it kill her.
The movie has Deldre impersonate her psychiatrist Dr. Lillian Jonas, Babs Chula, to get to Molly and her rambunctious son Michael without David knowing about it. Finding out the truth about Deldre's plan David kicks her out of his home. Later Deldre traps David in a number of very sticky situations with her attempting to jump out of her hotel window that David saves her from doing. Deldres action left her body black and blue which has her going to Molly, and the police, telling her that David attacked beat and raped her.
Having a video tape of her and David involved in an S&M session while they were married Deldre uses it to prove that he's a pervert and sexual degenerate. All this has David's attorney Mr. Endicott drop the case defending him against the charges that Deldra has filed against David. Dr. Jonas realizing that her patient Deldre is completely out of control confronts her at her apartment threatening to heave Deldre sent back to the institution, that she was just released from, if she doesn't go back their voluntarily herself. This has the crazed Deldre do Dr. Jonas in by shoving her head into a water filled bathtub drowning her.
Obvious and predictable ending with Deldre in her insane attempt to destroy everything that means anything to David, Molly & Michael. Later things begin to turn sour on her with Deldre and her grand master plan of destruction, that took seven year to dream up formulate and put into motion,going down in flames as the movie comes to an end.
Not at all that convincing the movie "The Ex" is a bit to heavy-handed in it's theme about a woman out to get her ex-husband with him not at all that sympathetic. David was, until he met and married Molly, on the same path of self-destruction as Deldre was in his wild lifestyle of drugs sex and all night partying and drinking binges. It was that David's Ex-wife Deldre was so much worse then he was that he didn't come across so unlikable and sleazy.