Where Did You Go, Bernadette: Not far enough

The Movie Slut has nothing against message movies. What she hates is a movie that hits her over the head with its message. Again. And Again. And again.

The message here is that creative folks who are deprived of creating are pretty obnoxious people.

And who better to play the part of such a deprived individual than Kate Blanchette overacting and overchanneling Katherine Hepburn.

This movie tries and fails to be funny. When her husband considers a bit of R & R at a psychiatric institute, she refers to it as the "loony bin." And we thought that term went out with the rotary phone.

Bernadette was an award-winning architect who became a stay-at-home mom—bored, unfulfilled, unchallenged. Instead of the inane antics we see on screen, Bernadette, who we're to believe is so intelligent, could have read "The Feminine Mystique" and learned she has "the problem with no name," which was given a name in 1963 when Betty Friedan wrote the book.