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.
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Release Date
12/8/1989Runtime
116 minsOverview
The Roses, Barbara and Oliver, live happily as a married couple. Then she starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver, and likes what she sees. Both want to stay in the house, and so they begin a campaign to force each other to leave. In the middle of the fighting is D'Amato, the divorce lawyer. He gets to see how far both will go to get rid of the other, and boy do they go far.
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ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$26,000,000Revenue
$160,188,546Homepage
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A pitch-black comedy that watches romantic passion curdle into mutual destruction, told through the eyes of a divorce lawyer witnessing two people wage war from within their dream home. It's a film that promises fairy-tale romance in its opening moments, only to reveal the nightmare waiting underneath.
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Heads up
Michael Douglas
Oliver Rose
Kathleen Turner
Barbara Rose
Danny DeVito
Gavin D'Amato
Marianne Sägebrecht
Susan
Sean Astin
Josh at 17
Heather Fairfield
Carolyn at 17
G.D. Spradlin
Harry Thurmont
Peter Donat
Jason Larrabee
Dan Castellaneta
Man in Chair
Gloria Cromwell
Mrs. Marshall
Harlan Arnold
Mr. Dell
Mary Fogarty
Mrs. Dell
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