Cinema: Marriage to The Bitter End

WAR OF THE ROSES Directed by Danny DeVito

Screenplay by Michael Leeson

Everything has come up roses for the Roses. Oliver (Michael Douglas) has + made partner at his influential law firm. Barbara (Kathleen Turner) has converted her catering service from busywork to flourishing business. The kids are trouble free and accepted by all the right schools. The last expensive antique has been placed in the last empty space in their exquisitely restored house. In other words, disaster now looms.

For the habit of discontent has been the engine driving their lives. And the only thing left to be discontented about...

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