Intolerable Cruelty (Widescreen Edition)
by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
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Actor: Billy Bob Thornton, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Cedric the Entertainer, George Clooney, Paul AdelsteinDirector: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Brand: Universal
Writer: Ethan Coen
Writer: Joel Coen
Writer: John H. Price
Writer: John Romano
Writer: Matthew Stone
Writer: Robert Ramsey
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-02-10
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of Intolerable Cruelty (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: Tolerable Cruelty...Coen Bros. 101
Summary: 4 Stars
I kept waiting for INTOLERABLE CRUELTY to become a real Coen Brothers movie. What it wound up coming closest to was a sort of Coen Brothers knock-off. If I'd learned it was the work of Coen wannabes, it'd have made sense. And as a star vehicle for George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones, it's not bad. And it has plenty of humorous bits. (I'll be sure to think twice before next using my asthma inhaler). Visually, it seems to be the least striking of the brothers efforts. You couldn't be faulted for wondering if Roger Deakins, the Coens' regular cinematographer hadn't sat this one out. But like his cohorts on the directorial end of things, he really WAS there--though maybe not fully invested in the project.
As a screwball comedy, CRUELTY seems a much more conventional genre flick than, say, the earlier HUDSUCKER PROXY. Its reputation as the Coens' most mainstream effort is pretty well deserved. On the other hand, it's still quietly subversive. If Clooney and Zeta-Jones drip star power throughout, it doesn't erase the fact that neither is particularly likeable. But with stars of that magnitude, it actually may take a little while to realize that you really don't care for them as people. They charm the audience just about as effectively as they charm everyone else in the movie AND each other.
Like most screwball comedies, the movie ends happily (and this can't be a spoiler for anyone at this point, can it?) Perhaps, I should say, happily enough. Who knows what's in store for these two actually. They may continue to scheme against each other for the rest of their godforaken lives. Old habits die hard, after all. Still they look great together. And deserve each other in every sense.
Friends who are not quite as smitten with the Coen oeuvre as I am have commented on how much they actually LIKE this film. That may be INTOLERABLE CRUELTY'S most subversive quality. If it gets people to look anew at FARGO, LEBOWSKI, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN and rest of the brothers' more "difficult" work, it will have done its (dirty)job well indeed. As a 101 level course in a Coen Bros. Studies curriculum, it ain't half bad.
Summary of Intolerable Cruelty (Widescreen Edition)
Sparks fly when brilliant divorce attorney miles massey meets his match in the beautiful but ruthless marilyn. A hilarious romantic comedy about men women and everything that can go wrong between them. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 05/23/2006 Starring: George Clooney Catherine Zeta Jones Run time: 100 minutes Rating: Pg13A 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
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