She-Devil (1989) on Netflix
Ruth Patchett keeps house outside New York City for her husband Bob, an accountant, and their children. When Bob begins an affair with romance novelist Mary Fisher, Ruth vows revenge.
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Plot summary
Bob Patchett, an accountant in New York City, brings his wife Ruth to network at a Guggenheim Museum party. Ruth spills her wine on Mary Fisher, a romance novelist. Bob offers to drive Mary home, leaves Ruth at the corner of their street to walk, and spends the night at Mary's mansion. He returns at breakfast to announce he has landed her account. Ruth, who keeps their children Nicolette and Andy, works harder around the house and on her looks while Bob keeps late hours. At a dinner for Bob's parents the food burns and the mushroom soup turns up Andy's gerbil. Bob walks out and calls Ruth a she-devil, saying he means to keep everything he values and that she is his only burden.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about She-Devil (1989)
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- Mary Fisher's mansion was a real 30-bedroom estate in Port Jefferson, New York, built in 1870 and almost 19,000 square feet, which belonged to Bulgarian operetta singer and actress Nadya Nozharova, also known as Countess Nadya de Navarro Farber. She lived there over 40 years and died in 2014; the house was demolished in 2017.
