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.
2 June 1955, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
29 October 1957, Chicago, Illinois, USA
19 June 1954, Springfield, Missouri, USA
15 August 1919, Poland
17 February 1927, Birmingham, Michigan, USA
16 March 1962, Hollywood, California, USA
13 July 1954, Chicago, Illinois, USA
24 December 1977, San Marcos, California, USA
31 August 1920, Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, USA
4 November 1919, Toledo, Ohio, USA
5 December 1921, Oakland, California, USA
16 December 1977, San Diego, California, USA
15 September 1945, Quincy, Illinois, USA
February 11, 2008
One of the most durable -- and characteristic -- comedies of the 1980s.
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 26, 2006
The film just keeps getting darker and more claustrophobic, like sliding down the center of a spiral.
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
DeVito's taste for unorthodox camera angles and striking camera movements occasionally verges on overreaching but for the most part admirably serves the action.
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.
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.
May 12, 2001
DeVito triumphs by instilling this caustic satire with truth and consequence.
July 21, 2004
Pretty good -- nice-looking -- black comedy with less copouts than usual.
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.
