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The War of the Roses is a 1989 American satirical black comedy film based upon the 1981 novel of the same name by Warren Adler. The film follows a wealthy couple with a seemingly perfect marriage. When their marriage begins to fall apart, material possessions become the center of an outrageous and bitter divorce battle.
Dec 8, 1989 · The War of the Roses: Directed by Danny DeVito. With Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Marianne Sägebrecht. A married couple tries everything to drive each other out of the house in a vicious divorce battle.
- (58K)
- Comedy, Romance
- Danny DeVito
- 1989-12-08
83% Tomatometer 42 Reviews. 71% Audience Score 25,000+ Ratings. After 17 years of marriage, Barbara (Kathleen Turner) and Oliver Rose (Michael Douglas) want out. The trouble is, neither one wants...
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- Danny Devito
- R
- Michael Douglas
The war between the Roses begins in the lawyer's office and escalates into a violent, bloody conflict that finally finds them both barricaded inside their house beautiful, doing battle with the very symbols of their marriage: the figurines, the gourmet kitchen range, the chandelier.
Michael J. Leeson. Screenplay. 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.
Under those circumstances, they are bound for an unnecessary, yet explosive and utterly catastrophic, head-to-head collision, in a no-holds-barred civil war between the sexes with their lavish mansion as the precious spoils of war.
The War of the Roses. HD. Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas portray a married couple who prove that war may be Hell--but divorce is worse. 4,495 IMDb 6.8 1 h 56 min 1989. X-Ray R.
