One of the things I enjoy about not having a movie theme on some months is that it allows me to follow random rabbit holes for a little while. Friday night I watched Subservience a film in which Megan Fox plays a sexy robot maid who wreaks havoc on a traditional suburban home.

Numerous people noted that its plot was similar to The Hand that Rocks the Cradle in which Rebecca DeMornay plays a sexy nanny who wreaks havoc on a traditional suburban home.

This in turn led me to Single White Female in which Jennifer Jason Leigh plays a sexy roommate who wreaks havoc on an almost traditional New York City home.

It is by far the trashiest of the three films and the most fun.

Allie Jones (Bridget Fonda) is a young, hip New Yorker who runs a start-up software company and lives in a swanky rent-controlled apartment with her fiancee Sam (Steven Weber). Late one night the phone rings and it is Sam’s ex-wife. At first, he doesn’t answer the phone letting the answering machine get it. As she starts ranting and raving he answers, but by then the machine has picked her up on speakerphone. When she berates Sam for not answering her calls even after they slept together recently, Allie flips out and kicks him out.

Now she needs a roommate. After a few interviews, she lands on Hedy (Jennifer Jason Leigh) who is a bit shy, and quite a bit weird, but she seems nice. At first, they get along quite well and it seems like everything is going to work out. And then, of course, they don’t.

Hedy is a manipulator. She constantly maneuvers situations to turn herself into Allie’s best friend while turning all others against her. At the same time, she is turning herself into an Allie clone. She borrows her clothes and then purchases exact copies. Then she gets a similar haircut. The two actresses look similar enough that there are times when it is difficult to tell them apart.

When Sam reenters the pictures Hedy gets crazy.

This is a film full of crazy. And gratuitous nudity. And a gay best friend. And a sexual assault by Stephen Tobolowsky. And a murder through the eye with a high heel.

It is so trashy and so much fun. It is best watched with a couple of hilarious, drunken friends.