The title of the movie really makes you expect something interesting and mysterious, but what you get is just incredibly hilarious. Everything is so exaggerated and taken to ridiculous unreal measures. Della seams to be really thick in the safety department. Because we all go to an abandon place where no one can see us or call for help when 4 people are chasing us. right? The plot is just ridiculous. Running around with the red tool box through the woods while they try to find her and slipping on rocks and banging the damn tool box, making noise, and the thugs going "there she is!". So funny. Then what comes next is just plain ridiculous. If you want to laugh at failure watch this movie. It's been years since I saw this movie and I still remember it. I was laughing about it for a month since I saw it with my friends. I would definitely watch it again.

The premise of this "thriller" (ha ha) sounds kind of cool at first: suburban mom trips to the local mall on Christmas Eve, gets pi**ed at a group of punks who park illegally, and leaves them a (very benign) "nastygram" on their windshield.The punks show up (led by LUKAS HAAS of all people) and proceed to make her life a living hell after shooting a mall cop in the head. They then chase Basinger out into an underdeveloped tract of real estate land where the rest of the movie has her carting around her little red toolbox (get it? she's like little red toolbox riding hood running from the big bad wolves) ready to use all its lethal contents in a preternaturally expeditious manner.The problem is, it's more like Kim versus the four (or were there five) stooges, doing a takeoff on the Toolbox Murders. The goons aren't scary or threatening (did the Lukas Haas ref ruin that for you?) and it quickly becomes one of those "ordinary joe bests the baddies with her common chutzpah and spunk" stories. These occasionally work, but only when there's a real threat...as I said, these douche-bags are complete morons...they practically impale themselves on any blunt instrument Basinger can brandish.And 6 mil for this movie....most of which it looks like was filmed in a vacant lot and bit of scrub creek across from your neighbor's drainage ditch? Obviously a no holds barred attempt to get Susan Montford's name in lights as director and writer...well, sorry --- you can't buy film cred that easily.Even Michael Bay had to roll up his sleeves for a few seconds.

Besides the fact that this movie was probably the most awful thing i've ever seen, we had the joy of watching Kim Bassinger, in the midst of being chased by ruthless gangsters with autism, squat down in the middle of a babbling brook and urinate... It was the most unnecessary scene I've ever seen in a movie in my life. The first thing I'd do after murdering a ruthless gangster would probably also squat down and take a pee. The movie is still on encore mystery as we speak, and I would like to know who got blown to have this movie even be on here right now. And I would also like to know why she fell for the old "i'll kill your daughters trick" to get her to talk so he could find her. This film is so awful that it hurts to keep watching it, but I can't stop watching it because it has to get better...

A suburban mother, Della(Basinger), from a gated community, who has endured an abusive marriage from an intense bullying husband, goes out to get wrapping paper, doesn't appreciate that a gang of punks parked out of place blocking a spot so she couldn't pull in there(it's Christmas eve and traffic's a bitch), leaving a note to them in anger. Dirtbag Haas and his wannabe gangsters enact a war with Della over something so trivial which starts after he shoots a "rent-a-cop" while in the midst of an argument(it's simple, the security cop wants Haas to leave Della alone and he refuses, resulting in multiple gun shots to the skull). It becomes a fight for survival as this band of thugs attempt to find and execute Della, resulting in their own demise. I love the premise of someone like this beautiful mom, cut off from what is the "real world", having tolerated her husband's nasty treatment over the years, finally snapping, with those who pushed her over the edge suffering the consequences. Haas has evolved from his cutesy child actor days and now plays all kinds of interesting characters, in WHILE SHE WAS OUT, he's equipped with one of those repellent scumbags, the kind of polarizing jerk who gets what's coming to him to the delight of the audience. Basinger is superb in a change-of-pace role, showing someone who has had enough, tired of being the victim, who takes it upon herself to stay alive by whatever means are at her disposal. Her Della is a bundle of nerves and all she wants to do really is get back to her kids(that's obviously enough motivation to do what is needed possible, right?). It's interesting how diverse this gang is, Asian, African-American, Latino, and Haas, their ringleader. All Della has is a tool box with weapons like a wrench and tire iron to use against her pursuers. Sure, it's strength in numbers at first, but as that dwindles, Haas will find that this bitch won't go down without a fight. Particularly interesting is when Haas' Chuckie sizes Della up and she, in turn, seduces him, using her seemingly ageless beauty as a means to buy herself some time. And, to see Della so completely liberated by this night, to put an end to the routine, she is able to face her husband and finish the movie with a bang. Craig Sheffer makes a brief, but impressionable, appearance as Basinger's loathsome husband. The plot isn't overly complicated and the pace is fast..it is rather funny that all this starts because of a parking space.