1929年的英國(guó)，惠特克太太（克里斯汀?斯科特托馬斯 Kristin Scott Thomas 飾）是貴族家庭的掌門(mén)人，她精心操持著家務(wù)，平著丈夫（科林?費(fèi)斯 Colin Firth 飾）及兩個(gè)女兒的關(guān)系。不過(guò)一切卻因長(zhǎng)子約翰?惠特（本?巴恩斯 Ben Barnes 飾）的歸來(lái)被打破了。約翰閃婚的妻子明艷動(dòng)人的美國(guó)賽車(chē)手拉達(dá)（杰西卡?貝爾 Jessica Biel 飾）。她的很多行為都被正統(tǒng)婆婆視為放浪。并且，兩女兒也看她不順眼，替哥惋惜。拉麗達(dá)跟老公的朋們前去兜風(fēng)，別人優(yōu)雅地馬，她卻駕駛著摩托風(fēng)馳掣。孤立時(shí)，她會(huì)跟公公露心事，兩人甚至在舞會(huì)翩翩起舞。這讓事情演變婆媳間的惡斗…… 本改編自諾埃爾?考沃德的劇，克里斯汀?斯科特?馬斯憑借此片獲英國(guó)獨(dú)立影獎(jiǎng)最佳女配角獎(jiǎng)提名，片還被選作多倫多電影節(jié)放映影片，杰西卡?貝爾本片中首次獻(xiàn)聲?
Wishmaster 4 is a poor relation to the original. I have not seen 2 or 3, and just happened to see this on the Sci-Fi Channel. It was an entertaining movie, mostly because the star, James Trucco (Verdel) has such an uncanny similarity to SCOTT PETERSON, the accused killer of his wife and baby fetus. Seeing that guy play a Demonic role in W4 made it seem more weird than it really was. The make-up on the main Djinn (John Novak) was almost comical. He looks like HERMAN MUNSTER's long-lost son. He also does not look very horrifying. Under the make-up, Novak looks like he got his acting lessons watching CREATURE FEATURE. W4 is relatively fast-paced, but it has very few scares and not much that is scary. In the original, all of the horrible actions of the Djinn came to the attention of the female lead, Tara Spencer-Nairn, and she suffered a lot at the hands of the Djinn. In this move, the Djinn is trapped by the 3rd wish, and he must seduce Tara so she will accept him as he is. Sadly, the best scene, where the Djinn is making love to Tara, is where he should have transformed into Djinn and it would have been very terrifying. However, that scene took place with Verdel as Djinn, and Tara did not even register much shock or disgust later when she discovered that she had made lover to a demon. Part of the subplot has to do with her handicapped boyfriend, and that entiresubplot is not very positive, since the boyfriend is given the use of his legs. Overall, W4 is not very complicated, it is kind-of a silly movie, and while there is some gore, it is not very gory. W4 is a good time-killer, but it is not a classic Horror movie unless you are a fan of the Mystery Science Theatre.
