Irreconcilable Differences

I originally saw this movie in 1985 with my kids and of course, we loved it! We were living in India at the time and videos were our only link to American culture. Fortunatley we had a copy (no comment).... Full review

This movie is hard to find but it's got some good morale to it.Two people ran off to Hollywood to get Married and it was a man and women.Next some producer shown them a movie Presentation and he assked them for... Full review

Someone above said she's not real in this. I thought she was very real. Her closing comments to the court are priceless and truthful. Also funny and dramatic is star Shelley Long, who is sunk with bad hairstyles and colors... Full review

The movie starts with a lawyer telling his client what it means to divorce. Then we find out his client is a precocious little girl.In the courtroom, the girl's parents begin telling their story, which we see though flashbacks. Albert... Full review

this is a great movie, full of humor and good performances. being that it is allegedly based on Peter Bogdonavich and his divorce, and his relationship with Cybill Shephard (Blake Chandler), it is quite insightful. but it doesn't settle for... Full review

I didn't know anything about this movie before watching it, except that Drew Barrymore divorces her parents. I think that could be why I found the movie so surprising. But the movie has so many elements that make it one... Full review

Irreconcilable Differences is one of the best movies of the 80s and quite possibly the most underrated love story ever made. For whatever reason, audiences chose to ignore this well-written and well-acted gem in 1984. I think it may have... Full review

"Irreconcilable Differences" is a very good seriocomedy about a Hollywood couple who are sued for divorce by their 9 year-old daughter. Ryan O'Neal, Shelley Long, and Drew Barrymore are well cast as the family torn apart by career, jealousy, and a... Full review

Say what you will about the Shyer-Meyers team ("Private Benjamin", "Father Of The Bride", "Baby Boom"), they know how to craft a movie, often exploiting every ounce of sentiment from their scripts. "Irreconcilable Differences" is somewhat of a departure for... Full review

Drew pretty much steals the show as the deadpan "reasoner"character: a child coping in the midst of two selfish,immature adults. I'd compare her to Tatum O'Neal in PaperMoon or Mary Badham in To Kill a Mockingbird for the wayshe anchors... Full review

Irreconcilable Differences delivers a few heartfelt laughs and is a pleasant rainy afternoon film....Basically, if you're having some sort of horrible divorce film festival, this one should be included.....A moment of silence for one of the finest moments ever committed to film.....become completely unable to care for their young daughter who is sadly neglected and unloved for the majority of the film..... ... Full Review

As a kid, Irreconcilable Differences was one of my favorite films.....though the story is entertaining and compelling....Some of the best elements of this film are the ending, the framing of the story, and the writing.....And they end up in a bitter divorce when he "falls in love" with the fresh young star of their second film, Blake Chandler (Sharon Stone).....O'Neal and Long offer believable, often touching, and sometimes humorous performances..... ... Full Review

Irreconcilable Differences" is sometimes cute, and is about mean parents....it also is one of the funnier and more intelligent movies of....O'Neal plans to be a great movie director.....Ryan O'Neal, who is not usually one of my favorite actors.... ... Full Review

Irreconcilable Differences " is sometimes cute, and is about mean parents....it also is one of the funnier and more intelligent movies of....O'Neal plans to be a great movie director.....Ryan O'Neal , who is not usually one of my favorite actors.... ... Full Review

O'Neal plans to be a great movie director. IRRECONCILABLE 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. ... Full Review

In a groaningly meta moment in the 1984 comedy Irreconcilable Differences , Rex Reed tells his audience that one character's early success as a movie-mad auteur placed him in the rarified ranks of Francis Ford Coppola and Peter Bogdanovich, high... ... Full Article

The opening moments of " Irreconcilable Differences " are not promising. A lawyer is advising his client about divorce -- and when we see the client, she turns out to be a little girl. ... Full Article

While you await the April 18 premiere of HBO's Grey Gardens , which stars Drew Barrymore and ages her about 40 years , nothing makes me happier than seeing Barrymore as she was 25 years ago in 1984's Irreconcilable Differences... ... Full Article

I love Drew Barrymore. With acting in her genes, the girl always delivers. I'm not arguing she has it in her to become the next Meryl Streep with a soaring 15 nominations coming her way in just three decades, but... ... Full Article

Um, so in case you guys haven't noticed, divorce is the new black. Reese and Ryan? Check. Nick and Jess? Check. All the fashionable couples are doing it - which is why we're confused about this announcement that Britney and... ... Full Article

In this human-scale drama/comedy, a pair of Beverly Hills parents, Albert ( Ryan O'Neal ) and Lucy ( Shelley Long ) first come together as a couple interested in writing (she) and teaching (he), but Albert's life takes an upscale... ... Full Article