From Sundance: Downloading Nancy, starring Maria Bello and Jason Patric, is the “story of an unhappy housewife (Bello) who instead of committing suicide, meets a man over the internet (Patric) and hires him to kill her. Things become more complicated when the two unexpectedly fall in love.” Finally, a smart and funny romantic comedy for the whole family! Eat your heart out, Katherine Heigl. According to Variety scribe Todd McCarthy, “commercial prospects, at least Stateside, are below zero.” But you want to know more, don’t you? McCarthy continues, “As Nancy requires pain from her hunky executioner, Louis uses her nether-regions as an ashtray and, most imaginatively, blindfolds her and guides her across a room so that her toes and feet will be repeatedly snapped by mousetraps, all to the accompaniment of droning techno music.” Oh, baby! You think that’s hot, er, cringeworthy? Stick around until comedian of comedy Jason Patric does his Regina bit. Hi-larity! Directed by famed music video… director Johan Renck and boasting super-DP Christopher Doyle (Hero, In The Mood For Love), Downloading Nancy is, as Sundance Festival Director Geoff Gilmore recently said, “the most intense film of the festival.”

(Ed. Note: Ever have that dream where Maria Bello kills and eats Julia Roberts?)

Had enough icky thump? Issabella Rossellini thinks not.