Dirty Little Secret is about a daughter, Lucy, who lives with her ocd mother. At first the mother was a neat freak and it drove her husband away. She must have been so traumatized by him leaving that she became a hoarder, the complete opposite of neat freak.
Lucy actually has two older siblings. Sometime after the mother became a hoarder the children's aunt comes for a visit and was horrified by what she saw. Not understanding the dynamics with hoarding the aunt thought it'd be a nice idea to clean up the place before their mother arrived. Well she quickly learned it's a really bad idea as their mother arrives and almost has a heart attack and has a huge tantrum and attacks her sister actually making her bleed. Their mother tells her sister to never come back and that she's forbidden from ever seeing her nieces and nephews. Sometime after that Lucy's older siblings move out, leaving her alone with their mother.
The middle act was also enjoyable it featured Lucy getting to know one of her classmates who happened to live with a mother who's struggling with an alcohol addiction, and a former patient of the mother's who is attracted to her and asks her out on a date. Both relationships were progressing nicely before the dark and bizarre final act arrived.
Just as things were becoming romantic between Lucy and her.classmate Lucy's inability to bring him over to her house because of her mother's ridiculous mess stirs up a big argument between Lucy and her mother. After her fight with her daughter she tells her love interest that she needs to take a break and he brilliantly retorted with "how can we take a break if we haven't even started anything."
The mother finally realizing that her hoarding is driving everyone she loves away from her decides to clean up the place, by herself. She only manages to throw away a couple bags which were already bagged up by her daughter previously before she falls under a mountain of her own junk and passes out due to her asthma.
When Lucy finds her mother unresponsive she thinks about calling 911 but then imagines the mother's hoarding being on the news and decides not to call 911. She tries calling her brother but he's on vacation and doesn't have good reception where he's at, and she texts her sister but gets no response. Lucy then decides she will clean up the house so that no one would know the mother had a hoarding issue. She quickly runs out of bins to throw the junk out so she starts using other people's bins and dumpsters.
Lucy forgot she was supposed to go to a party that night so her friends come pick her up and she goes with them because they told her if she goes back inside the home they will go in there and drag her out so she went with them because she didn't want them to see inside her home. I felt it was a bit strange how incessant her friend was at getting Lucy to go to the party.
So Lucy arrives at the party and tries to make a getaway but her classmate sees her and asks if she's okay. She says she's fine and leaves but he didn't buy it and should have followed her. Instead he sends her a text asking if she's okay. She manages to walk all the way back to her home and sees her sister arrive but she refuses to let the sister come inside and tells her sister to go away. The sister gets upset and says she will call her mom the next day and leaves.
Lucy resumes cleaning the house until she realizes there's just way too much junk in there and there's no way she'd finish that night so she comes up with the idea of burning everything up including her mother by starting an electrical fire. After starting the fire she escapes by breaking the window with the sewing machine her mother had been looking for throughout the movie. The movie ends with Lucy watching the firefighters fighting the fire, no emotions on Lucy's face as she says "I let the secret go."
This was an awful ending because if something like that happened in real life the fire department would know there was a hoarding issue and they'd know the fire was started intentionally and they or the police would know that the window was shattered by an object thrown from the inside. Lucy was seen by people at the party especially her classmate. If the detectives ask her friends or her classmate they'll probably find out she was at the party that night and they'd think she was trying to establish an alibi.
If the police interview her sister it wouldn't surprise me if the sister accuses Lucy of murdering their mother because honestly Lucy's behavior that night was bizarre to say the least. It was a tragic ending the entire movie you're hoping things go well for Lucy you hope she can go to the college in New York and finally be free from her mother but instead she becomes the creepy villain. The ending ruined the movie for me.
Lucy actually has two older siblings. Sometime after the mother became a hoarder the children's aunt comes for a visit and was horrified by what she saw. Not understanding the dynamics with hoarding the aunt thought it'd be a nice idea to clean up the place before their mother arrived. Well she quickly learned it's a really bad idea as their mother arrives and almost has a heart attack and has a huge tantrum and attacks her sister actually making her bleed. Their mother tells her sister to never come back and that she's forbidden from ever seeing her nieces and nephews. Sometime after that Lucy's older siblings move out, leaving her alone with their mother.
The middle act was also enjoyable it featured Lucy getting to know one of her classmates who happened to live with a mother who's struggling with an alcohol addiction, and a former patient of the mother's who is attracted to her and asks her out on a date. Both relationships were progressing nicely before the dark and bizarre final act arrived.
Just as things were becoming romantic between Lucy and her.classmate Lucy's inability to bring him over to her house because of her mother's ridiculous mess stirs up a big argument between Lucy and her mother. After her fight with her daughter she tells her love interest that she needs to take a break and he brilliantly retorted with "how can we take a break if we haven't even started anything."
The mother finally realizing that her hoarding is driving everyone she loves away from her decides to clean up the place, by herself. She only manages to throw away a couple bags which were already bagged up by her daughter previously before she falls under a mountain of her own junk and passes out due to her asthma.
When Lucy finds her mother unresponsive she thinks about calling 911 but then imagines the mother's hoarding being on the news and decides not to call 911. She tries calling her brother but he's on vacation and doesn't have good reception where he's at, and she texts her sister but gets no response. Lucy then decides she will clean up the house so that no one would know the mother had a hoarding issue. She quickly runs out of bins to throw the junk out so she starts using other people's bins and dumpsters.
Lucy forgot she was supposed to go to a party that night so her friends come pick her up and she goes with them because they told her if she goes back inside the home they will go in there and drag her out so she went with them because she didn't want them to see inside her home. I felt it was a bit strange how incessant her friend was at getting Lucy to go to the party.
So Lucy arrives at the party and tries to make a getaway but her classmate sees her and asks if she's okay. She says she's fine and leaves but he didn't buy it and should have followed her. Instead he sends her a text asking if she's okay. She manages to walk all the way back to her home and sees her sister arrive but she refuses to let the sister come inside and tells her sister to go away. The sister gets upset and says she will call her mom the next day and leaves.
Lucy resumes cleaning the house until she realizes there's just way too much junk in there and there's no way she'd finish that night so she comes up with the idea of burning everything up including her mother by starting an electrical fire. After starting the fire she escapes by breaking the window with the sewing machine her mother had been looking for throughout the movie. The movie ends with Lucy watching the firefighters fighting the fire, no emotions on Lucy's face as she says "I let the secret go."
This was an awful ending because if something like that happened in real life the fire department would know there was a hoarding issue and they'd know the fire was started intentionally and they or the police would know that the window was shattered by an object thrown from the inside. Lucy was seen by people at the party especially her classmate. If the detectives ask her friends or her classmate they'll probably find out she was at the party that night and they'd think she was trying to establish an alibi.
If the police interview her sister it wouldn't surprise me if the sister accuses Lucy of murdering their mother because honestly Lucy's behavior that night was bizarre to say the least. It was a tragic ending the entire movie you're hoping things go well for Lucy you hope she can go to the college in New York and finally be free from her mother but instead she becomes the creepy villain. The ending ruined the movie for me.