Edna and Leo, a perpetually warring, tyrannical pair in their 80s, begin wintering In Mexico, where they abandon their usual prudence to embrace adventure and a bevy of sketchy new friends. Soon, Edna adopts a pair of shyster builders whom she trusts over her own architect-daughter Elizabeth, and a farcical house results. Blithely indifferent to the calamities that result, the pair refuse all help from their too-compliant only child. Later, following her mother’s sudden death, Elizabeth’s wise, principled father attempts to fill his late wife’s shoes with a string of loopy, live-in housekeepers―with privileges, he hopes. Before it is over the Mexican escapade will bring down the kind of disasters commonly found in pulp fiction. Why can’t Elizabeth stop any of this from happening? No matter the madness, she cannot confront her parents any more than she ever could. In the end, the surprising way in which they come undone reveals just what they spent their lives trying to hide, thereby
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I don't have a weak stomach at all. I love gore, but I'm not such a big fan of the torture movie theme that's going around. I can handle Saw and Hostel when I have nothing else to watch!
Of the few that I have seen lately, I really loved Midnight Meat Train. I'm really looking forward to Quarantine this weekend as well.
I'm not so big on gore, I do have a weak stomach and dont really
like torture films. I barely stomached the first 2 Saw films.
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