Wicked

This above-average thriller, one of those sleepers that sometimes pop up on video-store shelves, folds illicit lust and filial loyalty into a compelling domestic nightmare. Teenager Ellie Christianson (Julia Stiles) is devoted to her father, Ben (William Moses), and loathes her mother, Karen (Chelsea Field), who's been cheating with neighborhood stud Lawson Smith (Patrick Muldoon). Karen also angers her family by capriciously firing the family housekeeper, Lena Anderson (Louise Myrback), an illegal alien who badly needs the job. Then someone bludgeons the unpopular Karen to death with a Greek "Tragedy" mask. Detective Doland (Michael Parks) suspects Ben, but the evid...