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6.8
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Critic Robyn Karney
rated 8

...DeVito delivers the blackest of black farces, charting the gradual disintegration of a relationship and demonstrating the violence (...) that people can do to each other when their needs and desires gradually cease to correspond.

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Anette Poulsen
rated 10

Virkelig sjov og tragikomisk. Eneste film jeg kan se igen og igen....

2 years ago

Cast & Crew

Danny DeVito
As Gavin D'Amato
Danny DeVito
Director
Sean Astin
As Josh at 17
Michael Douglas
As Oliver Rose
Peter Brocco
As Elderly Mourner
Dan Castellaneta
As Man in Chair
Kathleen Turner
As Barbara Rose
G. D. Spradlin
As Harry Thurmont

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A perfect 18-year marriage turns into a bitter divorce battle in this dark comedy. Barbara and Oliver Rose, a wealthy couple with two children, were once happily married, but now they are determined to inflict as much misery as possible on each other. Not even their helpful lawyer, Gavin d'Amato, can stop their vicious fight over their mansion and possessions. As the battle escalates, their vicarious striving for victory sends them down a dangerous path. Will they be able to find a way out of their toxic relationship, or will their war consume them entirely?

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as The War of the Roses include The Canterville Ghost, Forrest Gump, The Breakfast Club, Dazed and Confused, Scent of a Woman, My Girl.

When was The War of the Roses released in theaters? Toggle content

The War of the Roses was released in theaters on December 8, 1989.