We see Heigl’s villainess vaping, chatting on Facebook messenger and searching for strangers’ records on “” in the dark, her only company an enormous glass of wine. Movie super-producer Denise Di Novi’s directorial debut casts itself as an erotic thriller in the tradition of Fatal Attraction to me, it had more in common with Frank Perry’s 1981 melodrama Mommie Dearest. Enjoyable, too, is the inversion of the black best friend trope, with Julia’s supportive, zany bestie played by Whitney Cummings of 2 Broke Girls. A Bay Area psycho Barbie, Tessa is determined to make life difficult for her beer-brewing, rent-a-hunk, ex-husband’s (Geoff Stults) new girlfriend, Julia (a heroic Rosario Dawson, playing it as straight as the hammy script will allow). Here, she at least has fun with that typecasting as tightly wound and sleekly coiffed troublemaker Tessa. P oor Katherine Heigl has been typecast as the uptight blond (think the unfortunate trifecta of Knocked Up, 27 Dresses and The Ugly Truth).
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