The War of the Roses
After 17 years of marriage, Barbara and Oliver Rose want out. They try everything to get each other to leave the house and material possessions become the center of the outrageous and bitter divorce battle.
31 August 1920, Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, USA
15 August 1919, Poland
29 October 1957, Chicago, Illinois, USA
September 11, 1919 in Essex, England, UK
15 September 1945, Quincy, Illinois, USA
4 November 1919, Toledo, Ohio, USA
17 November 1944, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA
5 December 1921, Oakland, California, USA
25 February 1971, Santa Monica, California, USA
September 28, 2012
Greatly amusing, but its lasting achievement is DeVito's atmospheric authority, shaping a genuine filmmaking triumph in style and mood that deserves a standing ovation.
February 11, 2008
One of the most durable -- and characteristic -- comedies of the 1980s.
January 26, 2006
De Vito's quirky camera angles and Kathleen Turner's steely-eyed spite inject a sadistic comic-strip madness into a film that for once has the nerve to see its nastiness through.
July 21, 2004
Pretty good -- nice-looking -- black comedy with less copouts than usual.
May 12, 2001
DeVito triumphs by instilling this caustic satire with truth and consequence.
February 11, 2008
Trying to wring yocks from a deranged couple locked in mortal combat over possession of their house is more suited to film noir than black comedy.
January 01, 2000
[A] deliciously jaundiced perspective on matrimony.
May 20, 2003
DeVito'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.
February 11, 2008
Wildly funny and deeply disturbing.
July 30, 2003
DeVito exerts a control behind the camera that is otherwise almost nonexistent in contemporary American film comedy.
February 11, 2008
DeVito's taste for unorthodox camera angles and striking camera movements occasionally verges on overreaching but for the most part admirably serves the action.
May 26, 2006
The film just keeps getting darker and more claustrophobic, like sliding down the center of a spiral.
