The War of the Roses

Ever After / Never After


Okay you find the perfect person, your second half your media naranja, you complete each other's sentences, you fit morally, mentally and physically, isn't it a receipt for a perfect life, or is it just a slow falling down the hill to meet his highness the divorce attorney, well then this black comedy is just made to answer these questions.

Oliver and Barbara Rose (Micheal Douglas, and Kathleen Turner) met on a vacation on an island, they caught up immediately and were so happy together that they decided to marry, Oliver is a beginner lawyer in his firm, and Barbara is a waitress, move five years forward, Oliver is becoming more successful, and Barbara is still doing small jobs to help, they have a boy and a girl, over-spoiled overweight kids, but they are happy together, move forward and Oliver is a very successful lawyer, and she has started her catering career, the kids grew to become ivy league athletic young people, and they bought a dream house that Barbara took years to furnish with all the patience and the taste you can think off, but are they happy now ?...... think again !

Oliver experiences a traumatic event, and Barbara has a reaction he did not expect, so they find themselves less and less found of each other, which will lead them to the path of destroying property, shattered porcelain, sauna accidents, and to be stuck in a huge chandelier (both of them)

Well, think of this movie as the anti fairytale, a movie that will make you wonder about what you thought granted about love, marriage, and mutual life, when you see a super wealthy couple with everything you could dream off entering into this path of self destruction and mutual destruction, the most original part of it, is that it's narrated from the point of view of a divorce attorney (played by Danny DeVito, who also directs), but then again this is a comedy which means that it's still funny, and that's what makes it so enjoyable

So while strongly advising the engaged and the newly married to avoid this movie, the others are welcome to watch it, and enjoy really one of the couples with the best couples in American Cinema, with an unprecedented level of alchemy, and then you can project yourself twenty years later in 09 and it hasn't changed much, so it's really a movie for all seasons, but not for the weak at heart !.