Wicked Ways, A Psycho Wife and a Two-Timing Husband

If a psycho is a real babe...would we like her. YES!!! The proof of that is in our feature today. Sure she's hard to live with.  Sure she sets up deadly booby traps throughout her house designed to kill.  Sure she seduces any man (UPS guy, neighbor, etc.) whenever they get within 500 feet of her house.  Sure she pulls a gun on her husband.  Sure she...well...she's totally bonkers.  Why?  Behind any crazy woman is a man who probably drove her to that.  Our feature today is 1999's "Wicked Ways" (aka "Table for One"), directed by Ron Senkowski. WARNING:  STEAMY SEX WILL BE PREVALENT IN THIS FILM.

She's sultry and quite the seductress.  Ruth (Rebecca DeMornay) is the loony wife of Matt (Michael Rooker). She is addicted to a soap opera, you'll see.  She sets booby traps throughout the house and constantly interrogates Matt about his faithfulness.  Matt assures her he is being faithful.  Ha!  All men are liars.  Matt has a double life. He's on the road more than half the time. Little does Ruth know, he also has a wife and mansion in another part of the state. There he is a successful scientist and has a couple of kids and a sultry rich wife (Lisa Zane). Ruth, the crazy wife, gets lonely and delusional when Matt is gone. A hunk moves in next door, Tom (Mark Rolston). He and his wife (Shareen Mitchell) are bickering. He has needs, and Ruth has needs.  Yep, when Matt is away, Ruth will play.

Matt and his other wife are quite the couple and make the social pages. He has been promoted and will be relocated to DC (3000 miles away).  Now he has to hope he can get Ruth to agree to leave him...fat chance.  Tom's wife leaves him.  Tom and Ruth get close and Matt finds out.  Now Matt has a plan.  Not a good one.  Ruth is losing more sanity.  We find out why Ruth is a nutcase and it is a horrific story.  Her booby traps get more imaginative.  Where is this all leading.  Surely, this has got to end bad.  But for who?

If Ruth finds out about Matt's other family will she just kill Matt or the entire other family?  Will Ruth murder Tom's wife if Tom and her stop bickering?  Just what made Ruth so insane?  Rebecca DeMornay turns in a sultry performance that will send any guy to the shower.  She is all seductress and one wonders how Michael Rooker can leave her for...well...his other wife is attractive, too...in a more sophisticated way.  Does this even matter?  Sure it does!  See "Wicked Ways" and don't worry about thinking devilish thoughts.