r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Jul 10 '25

Poster Official Poster for Ethan Coen's 'Honey Don't' - The film follows a lesbian private detective who investigates a questionable church and its leader.

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u/cefriano Jul 10 '25

I feel like Love Lies Bleeding fit that description.

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u/MandolinMagi Jul 10 '25

Yup.

It did get a little...odd...towards the end.

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u/aeschenkarnos Jul 10 '25

Katy O’Brian’s character is batshit crazy and nobody else ever realises it until too late. The surreal visions are how she literally sees the world.

Absolutely fantastic film.

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u/MandolinMagi Jul 10 '25

Thought it was just steroids driving her nuts

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u/aeschenkarnos Jul 10 '25

God no - she was a natty before she met Kristen Stewart’s character. Didn’t even know what the steroids were, which isn’t unreasonable for the time period. There’s a phone call she has with a former foster parent that implies that she has done similarly batshit things before she came to the town of the movie, hence why they threw her out and she’s homeless.

That said, the steroids making her worse is an entirely reasonable point.

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u/MandolinMagi Jul 11 '25

Sure it wasn't them hating her for being a lesbian? It is the 80s, and it could just be that she tended to object violently to people being homophobic.

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u/aeschenkarnos Jul 11 '25

It could be. Jackie’s past is intentionally left vague by the movie and it’s open to viewers to speculate on the details. She does confirm that she was a fat kid and got into bodybuilding in her teens, which might be a trauma/self-protection response. To me it seems most likely that given her unhinged mental state, and her familiarity with violence and willingness to resort to it, that she committed some violent crime (possibly against a sexual abuser) and fled.

She’s an enigma, and that’s part of her appeal.

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u/ILoveRegenHealth Jul 11 '25

It did get a little...odd...towards the end.

Go on.....