The War of the Roses
Once in a lifetime comes a motion picture that makes you feel like falling in love all over again. This is not that movie.
Once in a lifetime comes a motion picture that makes you feel like fa...
Comedy, Drama
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1989
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The Roses, Barbara and Oliver, live happily as a married couple. Then she starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver, and likes what she sees. Both want to stay in the house, and so they begin a campaign to force each other to leave. In the middle of the fighting is D'Amato, the divorce lawyer. He gets to see how far both will go to get rid of the other, and boy do they go far.
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Rated:
R
Runtime:
116 min
Release date:
8 Dec 1989
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$26,000,000
Revenue:
$160,188,546
Awards:
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.
– Desson Thomson,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000