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#355
Seen It:
Yes
Comedy, Romance
USA / English
| George Clooney |
Miles Massey |
| Catherine Zeta-Jones |
Marylin Rexroth |
| Billy Bob Thornton |
Howard D. Doyle |
| Cedric The Entertainer |
Gus Petch |
| Edward Herrmann |
Rex Rexroth |
| Richard Jenkins |
Freddy Bender |
| Geoffrey Rush |
Donovan Donaly |
| Joel Coen |
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| Ethan Coen |
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| Brian Grazer |
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| Paul Adelstein |
Wrigley |
| Julia Duffy |
Sarah Sorkin |
| Jonathan Hadary |
Heinz, the Baron Krauss von Espy |
| Stacey Travis |
Bonnie Donovan |
| Catherine Zeta Jones |
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| Director |
Joel Coen; Ethan Coen |
| Producer |
Ethan Coen; Brian Grazer |
| Writer |
Ethan Coen; Joel Coen; Robert Ramsey; Matthew Stone |
A sleek George Clooney and a seductive Catherine Zeta-Jones square off magnificently in the divorce comedy
Intolerable Cruelty. The plot is simple: Lawyer supreme Miles Massey (Clooney,
Out of Sight,
Ocean's Eleven) skillfully outmaneuvers gold-digger Marylin Rexroth (Zeta-Jones,
Chicago,
Traffic) when she divorces her wealthy husband--and she sets out to get revenge. But this movie comes from the creative minds of the Coen Brothers (
Fargo,
Raising Arizona,
O Brother Where Art Thou?), and so
Intolerable Cruelty includes a Scottish wedding chapel in Vegas, an asthmatic hit man, fluffy-dog-stroking European nobility, and a legendarily unbreakable pre-nuptial agreement. Still, it's pretty restrained for the Coens; smooth and consistent, it never stumbles as disappointingly as their movies can, but also never quite hits the operatic pitch of their best work. It's still damn funny, though, with top-notch performances from the leads as well as Geoffrey Rush, Cedric the Entertainer, and Billy Bob Thornton.
--Bret Fetzer
| Barcode |
025192281426 |
| Region |
Region 1 |
| Release Date |
2004 |
| Packaging |
Keep Case |
| Screen Ratio |
Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic) |
| Subtitles |
Spanish; French |
| Audio Tracks |
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC]
ENGLISH: DTS 5.1
SPANISH: Dolby Digital 5.1
FRENCH: Dolby Digital 5.1 |
| Layers |
Single Side, Dual Layer |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Widescreen Dolby DTS Surround Sound |