The War of the Roses

If you've been married for 20 years, you can appreciate the subtle facial expressions as Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner go from lovebirds to quarreling spouses to psychopaths.... Full review

If you've been married for 20 years, you can appreciate the subtle facial expressions as Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner go from lovebirds to quarreling spouses to psychopaths.... Full review

First of all the movie is predictable. Then you've got the issue that it's a worn out cliche. There is no flesh to this movie and without that a dark comedy has nothing to bleed out.... Full review

Film usful hota hai kyunki is mein jo haqiqute mein ho rahi ghatnao ka chitran kiya gaya hota hai per kuch film sirf logo ko hasanein ke liye banai jati hai. Aaj kal ki film main pahale ki filmo ki tulna... Full review

I love this movie!!! I think that anyone not in a relationship or maybe even those in relationships watch this movie for valentine's day. I loved the craziness and the lengths that they were both willing to go to claim their... Full review

Although it's dramatized in this movie, ex-couples actually do fight like this over material things when they're splitting up. You'll stick with the movie to see who wins.... Full review

Although it's dramatized in this movie, ex-couples actually do fight like this over material things when they're splitting up. You'll stick with the movie to see who wins.... Full review

Michael shows us a different side in this well intention made movie by DiVeto. A very funny and touching film all rolled up in one movie. Turner never had it so bad between her and Douglas. A marriage going sour between... Full review

Michael shows us a different side in this well intention made movie by DiVeto. A very funny and touching film all rolled up in one movie. Turner never had it so bad between her and Douglas. A marriage going sour between... Full review

A FILM TO TEACH MARRIED COUPLES, "NOT" WHAT TO DO FOR A PERFECT MARRAGE. KEEP THIS FILM WELL AWAY FROM THE KIDS AS THEY COULD DEVELOPE "STRANGE" COURTING HABITS.... Full review

It's not happy, but it is funny.....When it comes to dark satires of the romantic comedy genre, few films are more vicious than Danny DeVito's 1989 offering, The War of the Roses .....Compromises could have made The War of the Roses more appealing to mainstream audiences.... ... Full Review

Some brilliant idea-guy in Hollywood deserves a king's ransom for turning the tired romantic coupling of Douglas and Turner into a dark comedy worthy of praise for decades to follow. ... Full Review

It may seem that The War of the Roses is about the breaking of the American family-Gavin's moral is that a "civilized divorce" is a contradiction-but what it really is is a parodic breaking of that great American tradition: materialism . DeVito plays this dichotomy wonderfully, pitching the tone of the movie to extremes that end up conflating the two, making the tragic funny and the funny tragic. ... Full Review

amusing this comedy of 80s.... ... Full Review

The War of the Roses is handsome, well-made, and quite dispassionate. Practically every scene is cleverly engineered and expertly paced, and the camera moves with smooth civility even when husband and wife are bumping each other's heads down their grand spiral staircase. ... Full Review

Jon Gosselin showed up for a daylong divorce arbitration hearing Saturday with a bouquet of long-stemmed red roses for Kate - only to have her turn them down and later leave the courthouse empty-handed. ... Full Article

The first paragraph is very well written. (Not that I didn't like the rest of the review) I especially liked the Dante quote. I think that the bad thing about happy endings is that they some times don't make any... ... Full Article

It's official: Eminem and Mariah Carey had a relationship. There's simply no other explanation why two full-grown pop stars would so publicly go at each other the way they do (see Carey's most recent video, "Obsessed" ). ... Full Article

He was controlling, and obsessed with the wife who was ending their marriage. As their bitter divorce was coming to a conclusion, Richard Shenkman kept talking about "The War of the Roses," the hit movie in which a couple's divorce... ... Full Article

Funny. I walked out of War of the Roses also, but then I saw an interview with Danny DeVito where he explained the movie wasn't supposed to ever be about the Roses getting back together or finding peace with their... ... Full Article

Now I must clarify that "The War of the Roses" is listed as a comedy, but it is more in the genre of black comedy. ... Full Article