Fresh
Here's an anomaly: a comedy about smart people.
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
Intolerable Cruelty
Engage the enemy.
2003 · 1h 40m · PG-13
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
Ethan Coen
,
Joel Coen
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Intolerable Cruelty
Overview
A revenge-seeking gold digger marries a womanizing Beverly Hills lawyer with the intention of making a killing in the divorce.
Director and cast
- Ethan Coen Director
- Joel Coen Director
- George Clooney as Miles Massey
- Catherine Zeta-Jones as Marilyn Rexroth
- Geoffrey Rush as Donovan Donaly
- Cedric the Entertainer as Gus Petch
- Edward Herrmann as Rex Rexroth
- Paul Adelstein as Wrigley
- Richard Jenkins as Freddy Bender
- Billy Bob Thornton as Howard D. Doyle
- Julia Duffy Cast
- Jonathan Hadary Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
76%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The Coens do an efficient job of stamping their signature grotesquerie on sumptuous Beverly Hills and Las Vegas settings and ladling on gallows humor and malice, sometimes with the verve of early Robert Zemeckis.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Inventive and hilarious.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
The Coen Brothers do provide enough of a diversion with bits and pieces of wacko casting, and with the deranged details of dress and makeup of their fleeting gargoyles, to make the proceedings at least moderately amusing.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Rotten
This dim-witted, mean-spirited and brain-dead calamity should surprise no one.
Rex Reed, New York Observer
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