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| ACTORS: | Danny DeVito, Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Danny DeVito |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 08 December, 1989 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Twentieth Century Fox |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby, THX, Widescreen |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-comedy |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 024543023395 |
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Customer Reviews of The War of the Roses
The Most Beloved UNromantic Story of All Time... "War of the Roses" is one of the best UNromantic (i.e., black comedy) movies ever made. Hot off the successes of "Romancing the Stone" and "Jewel of the Nile," Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas, and Danny DeVito reteam for their 3rd movie together. I have a hard time deciding which of the three was best. If you loved the chemistry between Turner and Douglas in the first two movies, you're going to love to hate the chemistry between them now! The Roses HATE each other with such passion. Truly one of the great comedic movies ever made.
Love hurts
The best screen teaming of the '80's, being Danny DeVito, Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas are together once again to create one of the most bizarre films of the last decade or so. Michael Douglas stars as the ambitious lawyer with a beautiful wife and two chubby kids, but as time goes by his wife opens up her own business and the kids lose weight. And then she says that she wants a divorce, something which he can't seem to fathom. Going so far as asking if she's sleeping with a woman!
What starts out as something that happens to thousands of couples each year becomes a battle that Goliath would run from. The 'comedy' of this film stems from the battle they are wagering over the house. She wants 'the house and all of it's contents, except for your shaving gear, and, his clothing?' He says that he paid for the house and it's contents so it's his. That's when things turn truly ugly: he urinates over her fish course which she prepared to impress her clients, she destroys his imported English car, not to mention the fate of all those beautiful and priceless antiques that decorate the house.
The film's climax may stun a few people, but at the heart of this is a cautionary tale: love never lasts for ever. Well, not if lots of money is involved, it won't!
Good DVD of an under-appreciated film
While critics (and audiences) were somewhat lukewarm in their response to this film when it was first released, I enjoyed it. Although it's a "black comedy", it never veers too far into total comedy or total darkness. DeVito's narration helps to hold the film together and keeps it from degenerating into a series of mind-numbing retaliations. The film is visually appealing, with interesting camera angles and a solid sense of composition that is often lacking in comedies. The movie has held up well and does not appear as dated as many films from the same time.
Douglas plays his role of a rather self-important and arrogant know-it-all quite well, and Turner is equally convincing as she exhibits growing distaste for him.
The DVD has a very good video transfer. The sound is surprisingly good for a 2-channel source, with reasonably good directionality in the front speakers.
There's a montage of deleted scenes that are arranged in chronological order so that it's easy for the viewer to mentally insert them in their proper place in the film. Unlike some deleted scenes, these have the same video and audio quality as the film itself.
Overall, this is a nicely done DVD of an under-appreciated film.