a friend once ask me to read a screenplay of his that have be optioned by a movie studio . to say it be one of the most inept and insipid script i would ever read would be a bold understatement . yet i never tell him this . why . because in a world where film like while she be out can be green light and attract an oscar win star like kim basinger and a screenplay lacking in character and content and common sense be no guarantee that it would not sell . a so many other reviewer have point out and while she be out be a dreadfully under write woman in peril film that have abuse housewife basinger hunt by four unlikely hood on christmas eve . every gripe be legitimate and from the weak dialog and bad act to the jaw drop lapse of logic and but basinger be such an interesting actress and the premise be not without promise . here be a couple of thing that strike me represent1 ) i do not care how much we be suppose to think her husband be a jerk and the house be a mess with toy . since when do it become child abuse to make kid pick up after themselves . 2 ) racially diverse gang be rare everywhere except hollywood and where they be usually the only racially balance group on screen . 3 ) sure the film be stupid . but so be the countless thriller i have sit through where the woman be portray a wailing and helpless victim of male sadism . stupid or not and i find it refresh to see a woman get the best of her tormentor . 4 ) i love the end . 5 ) though an early reviewer coin this phrase and i really do think this film should be retitled the red toolbox of doom .