Wonderful film. Douglas and Turner are both in top form and have a perfectly savage chemistry. And behind the camera, Danny DeVito truly creates a dark comedy, which is to say I admire how the film ventures to places of real and toxic pain without sacrificing a certain whimsy and spring in its step. Both poles (the anger of the characters and the humor of the piece) are always intertwined and complementary.

A classic black comedy.

The War of the Roses

I watched this when I was younger with my mum. It's one of her favourites, and it always held a special place in my heart too. I suppose it's one of those things that me and my mum shared. There weren't many, so I cherished this. I just watched it again and I appreciate it all over again. It's a masterpiece in the sub-genre of domestic and marital breakups. American Beauty, The Break-Up, the remake of Mr. and Mrs. Smith etc., while not fully alike, all owe a debt to this film.

There is no more perfect a human being than Michael Douglas to play "Mr. Successful". Utterly brilliant. And Kathleen Turner is such a cunning bitch, and kind of sexy too, just before she turned into a man. She masters the spitefulness of a woman flawlessly. It's a classic dark comedy and one of my favourite films ever. The script is just magical. I was laughing literally every few minutes. It's hilarious, surprising, crude, sexy, cynical, and its even artistic, told in a sort of glass ball type late-night conversation with a friend, yet it's a client instead. Really great cinema, and I wish Danny DeVito still made films like this.

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I need to see this.

Its incredible to think that Kathleen Turner was reasonably hot back then. Now we are scarred with images of her as Chandler Bing's dad.