The War of the Roses
The War of the Roses

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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..... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The War of the Roses:

Michael Douglas
Kathleen Turner
Danny DeVito
Marianne Sägebrecht
Sean Astin
Heather Fairfield

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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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Chicago Reader - 10/10 by Jonathan RosenbaumDeVito's taste for unorthodox camera angles and striking camera movements occasionally verges on overreaching but for the most part admirably serves the action.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) - 10/10 by Ken HankePretty good -- nice-looking -- black comedy with less copouts than usual.
Time - 10/10 by Richard SchickelA compellingly watchable, suspenseful, and often funny treatment of a grim subject--the hatred that can build up in a long-term marriage--that also becomes an indirect commentary on yuppie materialism.
Film Freak Central - 9/10 by Walter ChawA sharply observed look at how optimism turns to dread, the dangers of possession, and a coda for a decade too often guilty of all of the above.
New York Times - 9/10 by Janet MaslinDeVito'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.
Los Angeles Times - 9/10 by Sheila BensonThe most brutal husband-wife encounter since axe-wielding Jack Nicholson yelled "Heeeeere's Johnny!" to Shelley Duvall in Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining."
Rolling Stone - 9/10 by Peter TraversUnder the astute direction of Danny DeVito, who does a sly turn as Oliver's attorney, this acid-dipped epic of revenge is killingly funny and dramatically daring.
Washington Post - 8/10 by Rita KempleyDirector DeVito, who never did know when to quit, manages to be as clever as he is vicious. His first movie, "Throw Momma From the Train," seems almost lyrical in comparison to the ruthlessness of this vehicle.
San Francisco Chronicle - 8/10 by Peter StackThe movie treads a dangerous line. There are times when its ferocity threatens to break through the boundaries of comedy - to become so unremitting we find we cannot laugh.
Chicago Sun-Times - 8/10 by Roger EbertIt's to the credit of DeVito and his co-stars they they were willing to go that far, but maybe it shows more courage than wisdom.

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