The War of the Roses (Widescreen) R
Once in a lifetime comes a motion picture that makes you feel like falling in love all over again. This is not that movie.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 56 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 4, 2006
- Originally Released: 1989
- Label: 20th Century Fox
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner & Danny DeVito | |
Performer: | Sean Astin, Marianne Sagebrecht, Heather Fairfield, G.D. Spradlin, Peter Donat & Dan Castellaneta | |
Directed by | Danny DeVito | |
Edited by | Lynzee Klingman | |
Screenplay by | Michael Leeson | |
Composition by | David Newman | |
Produced by | James L. Brooks & Arnon Milchan | |
Director of Photography: | Stephen H. Burum | |
Executive Production by | Doug Claybourne & Polly Platt |
Entertainment Reviews:
4 stars out of 5 -- [T]he two leads battle with such gusto that it's fun to be sitting at ringside...
Total Film
DeVito's sprightly, slightly skewed approach can both surprise and please.
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The Spectator
Rating: 4/4 --
The film just keeps getting darker and more claustrophobic, like sliding down the center of a spiral.
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Combustible Celluloid
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.
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Variety
De Vito's quirky camera angles and Kathleen Turner's steely-eyed spite inject a sadistic comic-strip madness into a film that for once has the nerve to see its nastiness through.
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Time Out
Rating: 4/5 --
Pretty good -- nice-looking -- black comedy with less copouts than usual.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
...A deliriously mean-spirited free-for-all....[Turner and Douglas are at their] comic best when being as awful as both are required to be here...
New York Times
Product Description:
Danny DeVito directs this black comedy about a long-married couple in the throes of divorce at the height of the materialistic 1980s, and his second feature far surpasses his first effort, THROW MOMMA FROM THE TRAIN, in style, substance, and comedic impact. Barbara and Oliver Rose were the perfect couple--he was a prominent Washington lawyer, she had a wildly successful catering business, they had a great house, great art, great cars and great kids. But when Barbara begins to wonder about life without Oliver, she likes what she sees and sues for divorce; unfortunately, neither of them likes the prospect of life without their opulent home, and war is waged to determine who will keep it. The pair become increasingly outlandish in their battle tactics, moving from cunning to cruel to outright surreal, and DeVito's camera echoes this mood with its unorthodox angles and movement. DeVito himself narrates the action as Oliver Rose's lawyer, and Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas prove once again their chemistry as a passionately antagonistic couple (ROMANCING THE STONE, JEWEL OF THE NILE).
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 132,726
- UPC: 024543023401
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