10 Awesome Films You’re Embarrassed To Have In Your Collection

4. Hideous Kinky

A confession to make? I haven't yet seen all of this film. It's a film that I have to one day conquer, to see to the end. It's sitting there in a file on my laptop, waiting to be opened when I'm feeling bored/brave/barmy/all of the former. Because it's a movie that is stunning, but it's also a total snoozer. I have a total gal-crush on Kate Winslet, but even she's not enough to make this movie anything more than a soulless romp through Morocco. It's got snake-charming, acrobatics, and even two little girls that are faintly amusing in their precociousness, but the main character makes so many obvious mistakes when it comes to parenting and life that it all just becomes a cringe-worthy mess. Probably the only reason I will one day watch it until the end is because there's a scene where a guy, stoned off his gourd, rides around in the back of a Jeep with his shirt wrapped around his head, listening to Jefferson Airplane. And man, I really want to know what happens to that guy.
 
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