Barbara and Oliver Rose live happily as a married couple. When Barbara starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver and likes what she sees, the two begin a campaign to force each other to leave their house, with their divorce lawyer D'Amato caught in the middle.
Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award2 wins & 9 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
DeVito's taste for unorthodox camera angles and striking camera movements occasionally verges on overreaching but for the most part admirably serves the action.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
11 Feb 2008
rotten:
Trying to wring yocks from a deranged couple locked in mortal combat over possession of their house is more suited to film noir than black comedy.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
11 Feb 2008
fresh:
DeVito's direction is distinctively odd (with a lot of low-angle shots looking up at things), enjoyably mischievous and always somehow mindful that there may be, at the heart of all this comic mayhem, something substantial going on.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
DeVito triumphs by instilling this caustic satire with truth and consequence.
– Peter Travers,
Rolling Stone,
12 May 2001
rotten:
[A] deliciously jaundiced perspective on matrimony.