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It's been 26 years now, since I escaped from my husband at the time, with our little boy, who was only about 2 years old and proud to say he is now an attorney :)There were several red flags after 8 months but I was young and green, innocent christian at the time, not exposed to drugs and lies. We were married one year later after we met. We found out the morning of our wedding day, we were pregnant. It was such a happy day with family and friends.The first week we had our son, it started. The same question asked of me, about each week to each month..."If there was a fire, who would you get out first if there was a fire, me or the baby?" I would say I would try to get you both out but the baby first. He would respond with the same way response "Why, we can have another baby but you can't have another me!"Eventually his drug use became known. I even paid for 3 months of rehab. But around this time started his physical abuse. Each time I would call the police. Each time the police would tell me this statistic "By the 7 time a woman is hit she will be dead." See I was never even hit as a child. It was shocking to witness his behavior.After the relocation to move away from our home area for his sake and to be near his family, on the way of the move, he chose to be back on drugs. I was encourage to do counseling when I learned about speaking up for myself more. When I question him about us staying together he threaten me again with the same statement "Don't ever think you can leave me with our son" so I finally had the nerve to stick up for myself and say. "No judge would not let me have our child" Well ... I had the worse beating from a man 6'2 220 pounds, which was the 6 beating. He picked me up and threw me from the hallway into the living room. Our son ran over to me, crying over me, when his father pushed our son away into a wall to hit me. That's when I should have picked up our son and ran out.But no I came up swinging. Eventually we were all in the bedroom and as he was about throw another punch at me, I picked up my drinking glass next to the bed to block his hit. His fist hit the glass and landed still into my jaw with our son crying and witnessing this. The blood from hand/wrist went everywhere.I called his parents who live down the street and 911. During this period he grab our baby and left with him. He ended up needing surgery. The police came but this time the threaten to arrest me because he was injured. I guess my jaw and bruises were not visible enough yet.For 30 days this man kept our baby with him and with his parents so I couldn't leave with him. For the sake our son we gave this toxic relationship another try. But after just weeks, he decided to stay out all night with my car with another woman. That was it for me. But it wasn't over. I went to his work early the next morning to exchange cars but he found out. I raced home with our son to pack up and go away for a while back home we moved from for 6 months, where my son was born and I had lived for nearly 20 years. We lived in apartments. We had a neighbor who did child care but I never had spoken to her. I took our son to her and asked to hold on to our son and if I didn't come back in 90 minutes to call the police.I raced to our apartment gathered the things I had gotten ready during the night. Just as I finished up, he comes and confronts me outside in the apartments. A neighbor came out with long extension line of her phone calling 911 but he snatched the phone away from her. He ordered me inside our apartment many times threatening if I didn't. I didn't listen. The woman ran inside her home for safely and I ran into my car. He chased after me. But out drove him and lost him.I quickly came back when I was sure he wasn't following me any longer and retrieved our son. I know for a fact if I had gone back into the apartment that day with him, I wouldn't be typing this right now. I also know if we had a gun in our house, I would have shot him when he hurt our son and I wouldn't have been able to be with my son.When OJ Simpson case happen, it so resonated with me. So many similarities. But she didn't make it.It cost me financially dearly this divorce. But lived to create a better life. No one should live with threats or physical abuse. It was difficult to get away from this man. Eventually my teenage son wanted to have his father in his life again. So I allowed it. My son was used and con as well. My son finally came to know who his father truly was. His father did attack him twice and finally he was arrested for assault. My son has no relationship with his father due to this. Nor does his son. So sad. What a loss.This movie was therapeutic to witness. How brave she was to go back and face him. There is no way that could have happen for me. Over the years I have watched many movies about abusive men hurting women and in the end the women freeing themselves from their attackers. It is empowering. Over the years for me, the fear left me and I became stronger not fearing him any longer. We live in the same city now. He is crippled from so many back surguries and lives in the misery of his own mind, in prisoned.

I broke my tv and am waiting to get another one! I’m watching old vhs’s in the mean time and they r so hard to find. I love this movie and probably watched it 4 x the same day l received it!!!!!!!

I disagree with the review that said the character's actions were stupid. It was pretty realistic. It took her a while to realize how bad the situation was. But given the reality of our legal system, dealing with someone that crazy and dangerous, her actions made complete sense. It really highlights how little help women with abusive husbands actually get. They are very much on their own.The scene where she went to the police and found out how things would go was totally realistic. Reporting it to the police would do no good. First offense CDV is almost always a misdemeanor without bail or jail. All it does is make the perp angrier. That is why many women drop charges. Shelters are often full, or offer inadequate protection. That is the first place abusers look even if they are supposed to be secret.. Attorneys can't do anything, it is a matter for the prosecutor. Victims don't benefit from an attorney in a CDV hearing. Protective orders are worthless. Most women who are killed in domestic violence cases have them. All they do is make the abuser more angry. Violating a protective order is almost never prosecuted. She didn't have any choice but to run with little money unfortunately, since he immediately cut her off financially as was clear in the movie. Sbe didn't have enough warning to acquire savings. Going out of state - as far as possible was the only way to make it more difficult for him to locate her. Most women would be far better off if they could prepare to physically protect themselves from a batterer. The movie made it clear that he had the means and the malice to find and kill her where ever she went. There is no way he would have gone to jail unless he actually did kill her and given the way his money would work for him in court, that wouldn't have been for long. Given the situation, it was pretty realistic that if she hadn't killed him, he would have killed her. And in real life, in similar situations, that is exactly what happens to hundreds of women every year. The uncommon grasp of the reality of her problem, and her courage and determination made her such a compelling character and it such a great movie. The legal system does essentially nothing to protect or help abused women who are truly the underdogs embroiled in a dangerous situation, They are truly alone when it comes to protecting themselves. it is nice to see one who does what she has to do in order to survive and protect herself rather than live in fear.Great tight plot. Each scene was important in telling the story, with nothing extraneous.

I should on this movie by now because I keep renting it. I love the suspense in it, and the story as well.

Très très bon film je le connaissais excellent merci beaucoup 🙂⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

ジェニファーロペスが最高です！

Oh man, wenn jemand aus der Sangesgilde sich als Schauspieler/in versucht, kommt es mir in der Regel immer gleich hoch. Meist kommt dabei doch nur Schrott heraus, auch wenn ein Blockbuster (Bodyguard) dabei ist. Da denk ich immer gleich - Schuster, bleib bei Deinen Leisten.Aber es gibt ja auch Ausnahmen. Und Jennifer Lopez ist in der Hinsicht eine Ausnahme. Nicht nur, dass sie in ihren Rollen ausnahmsweise keine Sängerin miemt. Nein, sie kommt als Schauspielerin auch recht glaubwürdig rüber.So auch in dem vorliegendem Film "Genug". Männer sind Schweine - eine Behauptung, über die sich trefflich streiten lässt. . Und in diesem Film wird eindrucksvoll unter Beweis gestellt, dass sie es mitunter doch sind. Das Thema ansich ist nicht neu, wurde in Filmen auch schon reichlich abgehandelt. Aber hier setzt sich eine misshandelte Frau mit Kind, ständig auf der Flucht vor ihrem gewalttätigen Mann, mal so richtig zur Wehr. Sie hat endlich genug von ihm, nimmt an einem Kampftraining für misshandelte Frauen teil und verfolgt dabei ihr - zugegeben politisch etwas unkorrektes - Ziel: ihren Mann zu beseitigen, damit sie endlich Ruhe vor ihm hat. Und ich als Mann - wir erinnern uns: Männer sind Schweine - komme nicht umhin zu denken: zeig's ihm, Mädchen.Ein wichtiges Thema, das etwas unspektakulärer schon in "Black and Blue" behandelt wurde. Hier ist der Film aber etwas farbiger und actionlastiger, das dem Gesamturteil aber keinen Abbruch tut. Erinnern wir uns noch einmal, Männer sind Schweine, und in dem Film gibt es viele davon. Aber trotzdem wird keine schwarz-weiss-Malerei betrieben, gibt es doch auch genügend Männer, die der Lady zur Seite stehen. Auch wenn hier fast schon Popcorn-Kino geboten wird, dürfen wir nicht vergessen, das häusliche Gewalt, meist gegen Frauen und Kinder, leider gar nicht so selten vorkommen. Und auch nicht so elegant und unkorrekt gelöst werden.Bei Jennifer Lopez als Schauspielerin kann man, wenn man von den seichten Komödien a lá "Wedding Planer" mal absieht, die nicht so mein Fall sind, eigentlich nichts verkehrt machen. Auch Nicht-Fans von Miss Lopez kommen hier auf ihre Kosten. Klarer Fall - volle Punktzahl

In this 2002 social drama, Slim (Jennifer Lopez) marries Mitch Hiller (Billy Campbell), and they have a child, Gracie (Tessa Allen) but his controlling behaviour goes unnoticed. Skip years later and Slim finds out Mitch has been cheating on her but he admits it and becomes violent, slapping and punching her in the face when she threatens to leave. So the question is, what will Slim do now?This gets to the point within 15 minutes and what follows is a harrowing tale of a strong willed woman who wants out but is held in check by the menacing attitude of the husband. The strength of this is that the first third follows a plausible path but then stupidity apparently takes over [lose a *] and the ‘stupids’ pile up which does make things more interesting in ‘An Enemy of the State’ manner mixed with ‘Sleeping With the Enemy’. There are some nice twists in this –provided you haven’t read too many reviews [regain a *] and its nice to see the much under-rated Juliette Lewis in a support role.The single disc immediately offers audio set-up [English, Russian, Hungarian], subtitles [English, English commentary 1&2, English captions, Russian, Czech, Arabic], scene selection, special features [2 commentaries, deleted scenes, Max on the set] and trailers [5 of]. Rated 15 this contains some minor cussing and plenty of threatening violence but no nudity or sex. I actually wanted to mark this down but found it doing its task –being entertaining and tense, although I personally didn’t support the dubious morally and legally flawed ending –sorry!

I expected a gripping thriller but was disappointed after the first 20 minutes. It started off great then frizzled into a boring, predictable & disappointing.