I suffered this movie because I love Jessica Chastain, but OMG, what a redundant, trite pile of stereotypes. Very derivative of all the plots where the girl is good and sweet and naive and the rest of the cast (including the director of this movie) prey on her. You've got your pedophile uncle, the creepy Cindy who works at the insane asylum where raped girls apparently go, the drug addicted first husband, wife-beating second husband, the rich guy who buys Jolene's affections and insists she stop dancing the poles, and finally the wife-beating second husband who steals her child. Clearly this sad little movie was written, directed and produced by men uninterested in character depth, plotting, or creativity. Stupid and disappointing. Ugh.
Review of Jolene
