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Once in a lifetime comes a motion picture that makes you feel like falling in love all over again. This is not that movie.

The War of the Roses (1989)

December 8, 19891h 56mEN
6.9

1.2K votes

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.

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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$26.0M

Revenue

$160.2M

Production Companies

20th Century FoxGracie Films

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kevin2019

10.0

"The War of the Roses" is an uncompromising film based upon the eternally topical subject of divorce. It fits neatly into the same category as "When Harry Met Sally..." (1989), but where that yawn fest ruminated upon the boring notion that a man can never be just good friends with an attractive woman without sex becoming an inevitable issue and getting in the way of a beautiful friendship this film ponders the notion is there any such thing as an amicable divorce? The film which results from this preponderance is a brilliantly bitter and ugly one that takes the issue to the absolute extremes o…

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