Fresh
DeVito's taste for unorthodox camera angles and striking camera movements occasionally verges on overreaching but for the most part admirably serves the action.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
The War of the Roses
Once in a lifetime comes a motion picture that makes you feel like falling in love all over again. This is not that movie.
1989 · 1h 56m · R
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Danny DeVito
Overview
Barbara and Oliver Rose live happily as a married couple. When Barbara starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver and likes what she sees, the two begin a campaign to force each other to leave their house, with their divorce lawyer D'Amato caught in the middle.
Director and cast
- Danny DeVito Director
- Michael Douglas as Oliver Rose
- Kathleen Turner as Barbara Rose
- Danny DeVito as Gavin D'Amato
- Marianne Sägebrecht as Susan
- Sean Astin as Josh at 17
- Heather Fairfield as Carolyn at 17
- G. D. Spradlin as Harry Thurmont
- Peter Donat as Jason Larrabee
- Dan Castellaneta as Man in Chair
- Gloria Cromwell as Mrs. Marshall
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
84%
Tomatometer
Rotten
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.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
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.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Fresh
DeVito triumphs by instilling this caustic satire with truth and consequence.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Rotten
[A] deliciously jaundiced perspective on matrimony.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
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