War of the Roses [DVD] [1989] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

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  • Lowest New Price: £4.27
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  • Total New: 2
  • Total Used: 6
  • Total Collectible: 0
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  • Actor : Michael Douglas
  • Actor : Kathleen Turner
  • Actor : Danny DeVito
  • Actor : Marianne Sägebrecht
  • Actor : Sean Astin
  • Aspect Ratio : 16:9 - 1.85:1
  • Binding : DVD
  • Creator : Michael Douglas
  • Creator : Kathleen Turner
  • Creator : Arnon Milchan
  • Creator : Doug Claybourne
  • Creator : J. Marina Muhlfriedel
  • Creator : James L. Brooks
  • Creator : Michael Leeson
  • Creator : Michael Leeson
  • Creator : Warren Adler
  • Director : Danny DeVito
  • EAN : 0024543023401
  • Format : Colour
  • Format : Dolby
  • Format : DVD-Video
  • Format : Widescreen
  • Format : NTSC
  • Is Adult Product? : No
  • Label : 20th Century Fox
  • Languages : Original Language: English
  • Manufacturer : 20th Century Fox
  • MPN : FOXD2002340D
  • Number Of Discs : 1
  • Number Of Items : 1
  • Package Dimensions : 0.58 inches (Height) x 7.10 inches (Length) x 0.18 pounds (Weight) x 5.42 inches (Width)
  • Package Quantity : 1
  • Part Number : FOXD2002340D
  • Product Group : DVD
  • Publisher : 20th Century Fox
  • Region Code : 1
  • Release Date : 2001-12-18
  • Running Time : 116
  • SKU : 322074
  • Studio : 20th Century Fox
  • UPC : 024543023401

Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito are reunited for a third time to fabulous effect in The War of the Roses. This is a dark, disturbing comedy of marital trauma and revenge, which couldn't be more different from their sunnier outings in Romancing the Stone and The Jewel of the Nile. Douglas and Turner, in career-best performances, are the materialistic, consumer-driven Roses of the title (Oliver and Barbara) whose seemingly perfect marriage has soured beyond repair; their only point of contact is their meticulously maintained dream house, which Douglas bought and Turner decorated to perfection. When Turner gets a taste of financial independence, she asks Douglas for a divorce--all she wants is the house and everything in it (aside from his clothes and shaving kit). He laughs at her and she punches him in the face. Things only get worse from there, as nasty divorce proceedings (with DeVito as Douglas's lawyer) give way to insults, threats, ruined dinner parties and pet abuse. And through it all, the Roses begin destroying their beloved home and its contents, just to spite each other. DeVito, who also directed, takes Michael Leeson's blacker-than-black screenplay and gives it a hyper-stylised spin, complete with skewed camera angles and wonderfully expressionistic cinematography (by Stephen Burum) as Douglas and Turner barricade themselves in their house, both refusing to give an inch. Shocking for a mainstream studio picture, with its unsympathetic protagonists, escalating bitterness and disturbing finale, Roses is a poisonously funny valentine to both marriage and 1980s materialism, tempered only by its framing device as a cautionary tale. --Mark Englehart, Amazon.com

- Amazon.co.uk Review

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