HEROINE OF HELL

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SUMMARY:
A troubled woman paints visions of Hell to punish the wicked around her.

STARRING: Academy AwardTM Nominee Catherine Keener (Being John Malkovich) and Dermot Mulroney (My Best Friend's Wedding)
DIRECTED BY: Nietzchka Keene
GENRE, 87 Minutes, 2001

DETAILED SYNOPSIS:
Magda (CATHERINE KEENER, Academy AwardTM Nominee "Being John Malkovich") is an artist with issues: issues with men, issues with abandonment, and issues with people who get away with bad things. She questions the reality of cosmic justice and so takes the law of karma into her own hands. Magda finds solace in painting portraits of these transgressors in hell complete with tailor-made punishments.

When Madga's lover (MICHAEL NICKLES, "Wayne's World 2") leaves her for another woman, she takes off out of town and leaves diabolical messages on his answering machine describing hellish tortures befitting his crimes á la Dante's Inferno. She then goes on a personal crusade to condemn on canvas murderers, adulterers and boyfriends who don't return answering machine messages.

Late that night, she comes across a burning car smashed against a tree. The charred hand of the driver points toward a briefcase thrown free from the accident. Inside she finds a blurred snapshot of a laughing woman. When Magda tries to return the picture to the dead man's widow, Margaret (WENDY PHILLIPS, "Bugsy", "Midnight Run"), she is shocked by Margaret's refusal and coldness. Magda confronts Margaret and learns that Margaret is having an affair and may have engineered her own husband's death.

Magda also encounters Callum (DERMOT MULRONEY, "My Best Friend's Wedding"), a smooth-talking carpenter who becomes her lover, and while this relationship could help to heal her personal pain, she has now become obsessed with Margaret's world of greed, adultery and murder.

Eventually Magda sees that it is not Margaret but Margaret's lover who is guilty. Seeing a kindred spirit in her newfound friend, Magda decides to help Margaret seek revenge.

The film is interlaced with irony, dark humor and a climactic "Thelma and Louise meets Ingmar Bergman" ending.

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