Days later, this excellent film still fills my thoughts with pleasant memories and wonderment. Kristen Wiig is outstanding in her role as the plain and diminutive housekeeper who is victimized by two insidiously evil teenage girls, one the granddaughter of a grizzly old widower, excellently played by Nick Nolte, for both of whom Wiig is the housekeeper-turned-disappointed-lover. The disappointment is by virtue of faux email correspondences of endearment she thinks she's receiving from the granddaughter's father, played by Guy Pearce. Pearce's performance gives disgusting life to the word "looser". The emails are actually generated by the evil teenage granddaughter and her best friend.In part, it's a story of heart shattering disappointment, redemption and unconditional love. It's rated "R" because of some non-gratuitous sexual content, but it's well worth seeing more than once.
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