Goodbye Lover (1999) **

Directed by Roland Joffe. With Patricia Arquette, Dermot Mulroney and Ellen DeGeneres. Having exposed the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia and condemned the persecution of Indians in South America, the author of The Killing Fields and The Mission decided it might be fun to make a trashy erotic thriller about a slutty bitch (Arquette) who sleeps with her brother-in-law while preparing a string of bloody murders. DeGeneres steals the movies as a sarcastic cop always poking fun at her anal-retentive partner. The first hour is excruciatingly boring, but the ending is a hoot.