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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.
Movies on The War of the Roses. List of 31 historical movies about the Plantagenet's Lancaster, York, > The Tudors, and the War of the Roses for those days you just don't feel like cracking a book. Some are accurate to what we know from historical documents and some are just for entertainment.
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.
Oliver Rose (Michael Douglas), a student at Harvard Law School, meets Barbara (Kathleen Turner) at an auction on the island of Nantucket, where they bid on the same antique: mistakenly undervalued 18th-century Chinese homunculus statuette. Oliver chats Barbara up and they become friends.
The War of the Roses is a black comedy made even funnier by hanging onto its caustic convictions -- and further distinguished by Danny DeVito's stylish direction. After 17 years of...
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