Product Details

• Actors: Jessica Lange, Gwyneth Paltrow, Johnathon Schaech, Nina Foch, Debi Mazar
• Directors: Jonathan Darby
• Writers: Jonathan Darby, Jane Rusconi
• Producers: Douglas Wick, Ginny Nugent
• Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: English, French
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: TriStar Pictures
• DVD Release Date: September 16, 1998
• Run Time: 96 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (54 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0767815718
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #33,785 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Hush" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

In the tradition of Die! Die! My Darling comes this tale of a young heroine made miserable by a lover's eccentric relations. Gwyneth Paltrow plays a New Yorker who marries a handsome boyfriend (Jonathon Schaech) and--following a confidence-shattering encounter with Manhattan crime--moves to his family's thoroughbred ranch. There, the young man's dominating mother (a hammy, Blanche DuBois-like role for Jessica Lange) goes to war with new bride's claim on mama's Oedipal turf. A stock thriller ensues, and while one has a sense of déjà vu about the whole thing, the film is fun for its audacity, its underpinnings of dime-store psychology, and some gothic stereotypes. (Hal Holbrook is perfect as one's fantasy of a country doctor.) --Tom Keogh

Product Description

A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG BRIDE DISCOVERS A MOTHER-IN-LAW'S SMOTHERING LOVE CAN BE FATAL.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Southern Maternal Love Gone Plumb Mad!, June 27, 2004

By	Sheila Chilcote-Collins "Sheila Renee Chilcot... (Collinswood, Van Wert, OH USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

"Hush" serves up a down-home southern "charm" that would put Oedipus himself to shame.

Only child, Jackson Baring, played by Johnathan Schaech is the quintessential and clueless man-child mama's boy. His love interest and the first girlfriend he has ever brought home to meet his mama (no wonder!), Helen, played quite off-kilter by Gwyneth Paltrow.

They journey to the Baring's Thoroughbred Horse Farm, Kilronan for Christmas to meet "mama". Jessica Lange, is mama Martha Baring. Lange superbly but quite over the top plays Jackson's demanding, clinging, cross between Queen Jocasta & Blanche Du Bois on crack mama. Martha fawns, flirts, grabs, and kisses on her only baby boy in quite a non-maternal way through most of the film. Martha is obsessed and quite in love with her own son and has done some "doozies" to keep him where she wants him.

Hal Halbrook has a nice couple of scenes as obstetrician, Dr. Franklin Hill and ol' dame, Nina Foch (Spartacus, The Ten Commandments, Scaramouche) turns in a terrific performance as Great Aunt Alice Baring that has been on to Martha for years and knows exactly what she is capable of.

Torture, drugging, murder, lust & incestuous thoughts and deeds ensue! A great thriller with decent performances and a strong storyline all the way around.

Happy Watching and Be Careful Of Those Momster-In-Laws!

14 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Hush Hush Sweet Gwyneth, August 24, 2001

By	tmp "snippy reviewer" (Solar System, MA USA) - See all my reviews

Poor Jessica Lange. She must have needed money REALLY bad to do this warmed-over Southern-Fried gothic. But she looks as if she is having the time of her life doing it: she's equal parts Blanche DuBois, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and Electra, with a little bit of Dorothy Malone on top. She runs around for the whole of the movie wolfing down whiskey and looking at Johnathon Schaech as if she'd like to take a bite out of him and at Gwyneth Paltrow as if she'd like to bite her too (not for the same reason, though). The wafer-thin plot has Jessica's Mommie Dearest plotting to keep `ole Johnnie down on the farm and breed, then get rid of Paltrow. Since Schaech plays the biggest dunderhead in the Western hemisphere, and Gwynnie is, well, Gwynnie, nobody tumbles to the fact that Mommie is the baddie here `till the last reel. Nobody except Nina Foch, the only bright spot in the movie as Jessica's Mother-in-law, laid up in a nursing home. (Jessica's two scenes with Nina really crackle) This despite the fact that for seemingly the last hour of the movie, mad Mommie is running all over the house trying to stick poor Gwynnie with a syringe full of opiates (anything to get her to stop whining!) As a matter of fact, Gwynnie is the only problem here, her wan, colorless portrayal of the in-danger daughter-in-law is so unbearably grating that you long for Jessica to hit her with a lamp. The only interesting part of her performance is when at the end, where she shows a side to her character that is a lot closer to Mommie than you would think. Ah well. The scenery is gorgeous, most of the principals are as well, and if you can just sort of sit back and enjoy it in a big-budget William Castle kind of way, you'll have a good time.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars WISH THERE WAS A DIRECTOR'S CUT..., June 17, 2000

By	"sbuzan1" (Illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hush (1998) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I'm a HUGE Johnathon Schaech fan, I watch everything he's in, good or bad. I've seen Hush about a dozen times, and I've finally noticed something. In the trailer for the movie (which is on my DVD of FINDING GRACELAND) there's so much more to the movie that's missing from the actual cut we see...including a huge fire, someone being taken out of the house on a stretcher, and Johnathon standing in front of an ambulance, holding up a locket (resembling the one Gwynneth wears in the movie.) So I rewatched the movie and noted that in ALL scenes that Jackson's father is mentioned, Gwynneth's wearing a wig...leading me to believe the whole story was changed...rewritten to include this story of a father who was killed by Jessica Lange. ...this movie had so much potential and lost it all with this ending. I WISH THEY'D RELEASE A DIRECTOR'S CUT! At least we could see some of that good action they enticed us with in the trailer! Until there's a director's cut....this movie only gets 3 stars from me!