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After 17 years of marriage, Barbara and Oliver Rose want out. They try everything to get each other to leave the house and material possessions become the center of the outrageous and bitter divorce battle.
De Vito's quirky camera angles and Kathleen Turner's steely-eyed spite inject a sadistic comic-strip madness into a film that for once has the nerve to see its nastiness through.
Pretty good -- nice-looking -- black comedy with less copouts than usual.
July 21, 2004
Blu-ray.com
Greatly amusing, but its lasting achievement is DeVito's atmospheric authority, shaping a genuine filmmaking triumph in style and mood that deserves a standing ovation.
DeVito's direction is distinctively odd (with a lot of low-angle shots looking up at things), enjoyably mischievous and always somehow mindful that there may be, at the heart of all this comic mayhem, something substantial going on.
May 20, 2003
Rolling Stone
DeVito triumphs by instilling this caustic satire with truth and consequence.
May 12, 2001
TV Guide
DeVito exerts a control behind the camera that is otherwise almost nonexistent in contemporary American film comedy.
DeVito's taste for unorthodox camera angles and striking camera movements occasionally verges on overreaching but for the most part admirably serves the action.