This fantastic black comedy directed by Danny De Vita and starred by himself, Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner is a deep exploration of the war between the sexes at it's worst. They start as a Martha Stewart perfect example of a perfect family...
- 20.September.2010
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- by: Tony Canas
- Tony Canas rated this movie
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This fantastic black comedy directed by Danny De Vita and starred by himself, Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner is a deep exploration of the war between the sexes at it's worst. They start as a Martha Stewart perfect example of a perfect family with a great income, a beautiful house, two kids going to Harvard, his dog and her cat. What could possibly go wrong with such perfect lives right? Well, wrong she's not happy with their lives and she wants out, he takes it hard at the beginning but then accepts that she's leaving. There is one problem however, they both want the house and neither is going to back down. He paid for everything in it, but she found it and dedicated 18 years of her life to making it perfect.
Most of the movie is dedicated to the escalating war they have while trying to make the other give the house up. You won't believe just how far seemingly normal people go when convinced they are right.
On a deeper level the movie explores the problems of rushed, passion based marriages; of the law business and even the differences between dog people and cat people. The thing that really pushed this film from 4 to 5 stars in my rating is how people's responses to the film usually defend the character of their own gender and despise the other one, that means that the movie was able to capture the essence of the war between the gender so men feel that Douglas' character is right while women feel that Turner's character is right; and they usually need to see the film for a second time to realize that both character go beyond the limits.
- 20.September.2010
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- by: Tony Canas
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An entertaining comedy about the mother of all nasty divorces. Well acted and scripted: we believe both the heights of the principals' love, and the depths of their hatred. The last act of the movie is a great series of set pieces as Kathleen Turner...
- 08.October.2009
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- by: DukeofOmnium
- DukeofOmnium rated this movie0/10
An entertaining comedy about the mother of all nasty divorces. Well acted and scripted: we believe both the heights of the principals' love, and the depths of their hatred. The last act of the movie is a great series of set pieces as Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas keep escalating their campaign of dirty tricks against each other. In the end, the story is probably undone by its own success: the sense of mutual malice and meanness is very strong, and even overwhelming. The commentary track by Danny DeVito is almost worth the rental by itself: shot by shot he shares all of the secrets on how this (and many other) films are made.
- 08.October.2009
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- by: DukeofOmnium
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The War of the Roses
a clever movie by Danny DeVito about the destructive potential of crumbling marriage. for me it's one of the best pictures of the 80s.
- 18.October.2008
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- by: mishehu
- mishehu rated this movie
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The War of the Roses
a clever movie by Danny DeVito about the destructive potential of crumbling marriage. for me it's one of the best pictures of the 80s.
- 18.October.2008
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- by: mishehu
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