
Albert and Lucy fall in love, get married, and have a daughter Casey. Everything is wonderful, until their work distracts Albert and Lucy from each other and Casey. They soon divorce and start fighting. Casey, who spends much time with their Latino maid and childminder, eventually decides to seek legal emancipation from her parents, and to go and live full time with the maid who has been taking care of her. The media pick up the case and have a field day with it, making thing... (Full plot summary below)
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Albert and Lucy fall in love, get married, and have a daughter Casey. Everything is wonderful, until their work distracts Albert and Lucy from each other and Casey. They soon divorce and start fighting. Casey, who spends much time with their Latino maid and childminder, eventually decides to seek legal emancipation from her parents, and to go and live full time with the maid who has been taking care of her. The media pick up the case and have a field day with it, making things worse.
Leave your thoughts about Irreconcilable Differences.
| KyleSmithOnline.comKyle SmithThere is a marvelous balance in that we have an equal rooting interest in each of the main characters. It isn't a mere satire. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIrreconcilable Differences is sometimes cute, and is about mean parents, but it also is one of the funnier and more intelligent movies of 1984, and if viewers can work their way past the ungainly title, they're likely to have a surprisingly good time. |
| Creative LoafingMatt BrunsonWriter-director Charles Shyer and writer Nancy Meyers fill their movie with fresh dialogue and Hollywood-insider tidbits, and the roles couldn't be more aptly cast. |
| Filmcritic.comJason McKiernanWe like these people even as they sink further and further into a black hole, and we root for their sensible, level-headed, uncommonly mature daughter to set them straight. |
| The A.V. ClubNathan RabinDifferences would have benefited from a more cerebral lead actor, but O’Neal does a good job of capturing Bogdanovich’s ingratiating passion for cinema and his fatal hubris, and the script scores some clever jabs at the vapid self-absorption of show-biz types. |
| Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittMr. Shyer has no idea how to frame this material, let alone make it funny. Most of Irreconcilable Differences is terribly flat; the camerawork is dim and unflattering, the sets are bare even when they're supposed to look lived in and some of the dialogue is simply beyond the actors. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrOnly the engaging lightness of the two lead performances prevents the film from falling into utter treacliness. |
| Common Sense MediaBrian CostelloDated comedy about divorce with sex, nudity, drugs. |
| 7M PicturesKevin CarrI had much more sympathy for the child in the film and, sadly, she takes a back seat. |
| User ReviewJeri Nmy parents split like that when i was her age at the same time. she did a great job. |