| Enough | |
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 Promotional film poster |
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| Directed by | Michael Apted |
| Produced by | Rob Cowan Irwin Winkler |
| Written by | Nicholas Kazan |
| Starring | Jennifer Lopez Billy Campbell Juliette Lewis Dan Futterman Fred Ward Tessa Allen Noah Wyle |
| Music by | David Arnold |
| Cinematography | Rogier Stoffers |
| Editing by | Rick Shaine |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | May 24, 2002 |
| Running time | 116 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $38,000,000[1] |
| Gross revenue | $51,801,187 |
Enough is a 2002 American thriller film starring Jennifer Lopez as Slim, a young waitress who one day finds the man of her dreams in the diner where she works. A few years later, they have a young daughter, Gracie (Tessa Allen), and it is revealed that her "perfect" husband, Mitch (Billy Campbell) is abusive towards her and is cheating on her.
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Slim is a working-class waitress at a southern California diner. Mitch, a customer, defends her honor from obscene comments by another customer. They quickly fall in love, marry and have a baby girl named Gracie.
Mitch is a rich and powerful man, however, and soon Slim begins to discover a dark side to him. One day she discovers that he has been cheating on her. Though Mitch apologizes to her, his infidelity doesn't stop. Slim discovers this when she smells his mistress' perfume on him one day when he comes home from work. As Slim berates him for cheating on her, Mitch slaps her in the face and then punches her in the gut. Mitch believes that his money and power will give him anything, and he threatens to kill her, saying that he refuses to live without her. The police cannot help, because the best they can do is jail him for a short period, and meanwhile she would risk losing her daughter to state family protection programs because drugs would be planted on her or her objects like her purse. Slim would also be at the risk of Mitch killing her while out on bail.
Slim escapes with Gracie with the help of her friends but Mitch stops all her credit cards and freezes her accounts. Slim and Gracie then flee to a motel, but Mitch finds them. After a thrilling chase, Slim and Gracie are able escape on a public bus. They move to Seattle, where she meets with her former boyfriend, Joe, who still has feelings for her. Meanwhile Mitch turns to Robbie, his contact in the Los Angeles Police Department, the same man who had verbally abused Slim at the diner. It emerges that Mitch and Robbie had scammed several women using the "good guy/bad guy" bet for sex trick, and Mitch has had several mistresses. Mitch locates Joe's residence and sends three men there under the guise of FBI agents to search for Slim and Gracie. One of the men threatens Joe with a pocket knife, but in the end they are unsuccessful.
Slim and Gracie flee again, with the help of her estranged father Jupiter and her former boss/father figure Phil, but are tracked down in northern Michigan, where they are confronted by Mitch face-to-face this time. Slim manages to break free and later sends Gracie to stay for a month with Ginny, her friend who works at the same diner. Meanwhile, with Jupiter's help, Slim trains in Krav Maga, preparing herself emotionally and physically for self-defense. She prepares herself for a visit to Mitch's new beach house to hopefully get him to leave her alone.
She breaks into Mitch's new house and removes all potential weapons, and familiarizes herself with the layout of the place. She plants letters in Mitch's drawer which say that Slim and Mitch would meet to talk about the custody hearing over Gracie. This way Slim would have a reason to be at Mitch's house, and she would be able to kill him and say it was self defense. When Mitch returns home, she attacks him and overwhelms him;however, she cannot bring herself to kill him. She calls Ginny and asks what she should do, but Mitch recovers and knocks her to the ground with a lamp. Ginny becomes hysterical on the phone and Mitch hangs up. Slim recovers and manages to turn the tables on Mitch. He falls two floors and dies after landing on a glass table on his back.
The police arrive and tell Slim that Ginny had called the police to save her. She then tells the officer that Mitch is inside, but no longer armed or dangerous. The officer tells Slim that it looks like she's "one of the lucky ones". She goes to the airport and reunites with Gracie. In the final scene, she is seen picking up play jewelry with Gracie and Ginnie, laughing. Soon after, Slim and Gracie decides to move back to Seattle to live with Joe, and eventually, without living in fear anymore, Slim started a new life with her daughter and Joe.
The film received mostly negative reviews from critics. On the review aggregator Metacritic, the film had an average score of 25 out of 100, based on 32 reviews.[2] On Rotten Tomatoes, 21% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 121 reviews.[3]
The film ranked #5 at the U.S box office its opening weekend, grossing $14 million in 2,623 theaters.[4] The film had a budget of $38 million and grossed $40 million domestically. Worldwide, the film grossed a total of $51.8 million.[1]
This DVD release of Enough came out on October 8, 2002 and the special edition was released in September 16, 2003. A VHS edition was released on March 4, 2003.
| Enough | |
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| Film score by David Arnold | |
| Released | June 4, 2002 |
| Recorded | 2002 |
| Genre | Film soundtrack |
| Label | Varese Sarabande |
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The score for Enough, composed by David Arnold, was released on June 4, 2002.[5]
Songs appearing in the film not included with the release of the soundtrack[6]:
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| Enough (Love Songs) by |
| From Love Songs Part III and Rivers to the Sea Part I. |
It is enough for me by day
To walk the same bright earth
with him;
Enough that over us by night
The same great roof of stars is
dim.
I do not hope to bind the wind
Or set a fetter on the sea
--
It is enough to feel his love
Blow by like music over me.
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This work is in the public domain in
the United States because it was published before
January 1, 1923.
The author died in 1933, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 75 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works. |
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| | Enough (2002) - Weekend Box Office - Enough (2002) - Weekend Box Office Results |
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