Miss Monday - Movie Review

  • 01 November 2005

Rating: 4 out of 5

This extremely dark and disturbing Sundance favorite gives us a relatively simple premise -- screenwriter (Hicks) looks to women in the real world to find the muse for his femme fatale -- then throws us for a loop as the corporate-world woman he finds, his "Miss Monday," turns out to be an utter freak. Andrea Hart's Gloria becomes the center of the film as Hicks's writer spends a day and a night in her house, going through her things, reading her diary, constructing her personality... before a harrowing evening Gloria spends with only herself and her demons. Harrowing in much the same vein as What Happened Was..., though some scenes are alternately underexposed and overexposed, putting a damper on the visual asthetic of the picture.

Facts and Figures

Year: 1998

Run time: 90 mins

In Theaters: Friday 13th August 1999

Reviews

Contactmusic.com: 4 / 5

IMDB: 6.5 / 10

Cast & Crew

Director: Benson Lee

Producer: Benson Lee, Steve Smith

Screenwriter: Benson Lee, Paul Leyden, Richard Morel

Also starring: Julie Alannagh-Brighten, Louise Barrett, Benson Lee, Steve Smith, Paul Leyden, Richard Morel