Unforgettable

When a woman (Rosario Dawson) moves in with her fiancé (Geoff Stults), she unwittingly steps into the crosshairs of the man’s passive-aggressive, mentally unstable ex-wife (Katherine Heigl). The script, by Christina Hodson and David Johnson, is strictly boilerplate madwoman-on-the-warpath stuff, populated by stick figures standing in for characters, long on melodrama and short on dramatic logic. Even the title makes no sense—but then, Basic Instinct, Fatal Attraction and Hell Hath No Fury were already taken. Denise Di Novi’s direction is dutiful but flat, without style or suspense. She is more to be pitied than censured; Hitchcock himself couldn’t have pulled this schlock off. The cast—including Isabella Kai Rice as Stults and Heigl’s daughter and Cheryl Ladd as Heigl’s ice-queen mother—flounders. J.L.