George Clooney,
Catherine Zeta-Jones,
Geoffrey Rush,
Cedric the Entertainer,
Edward Herrmann
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Joel and Ethan Coen take on the classic battle-of-the-sexes screwball comedy with Intolerable Cruelty. George Clooney plays Miles Massey, a high-powered Los Angeles divorce lawyer nearing a midlife cr... read more
Directed by: Joel Coen
Release Date: October 10, 2003
DVD Release Date: February 10, 2004
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April 16, 2011Sometimes filmmakers just want to have fun and make a movie, and that's all The Coen Brothers are really doing here. "Intolerable Cruelty" is light, farcical comedy. The satire feels contrite but it's the dialogue and wacky performances from the game cast (namely Clooney and Zeta... read more
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March 23, 2011Not as funny as i'd hoped, but still was a very solid movie with a good plot and characters.
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March 16, 2011Mainstream Coen Brothers comedy isn't their best, but it's still pretty funny. Clooney is hilarious in this, and the rest of the cast stands out too (thortan). Not the best plot, and I wish the Coen Bros went a little riskier. Still a pretty fun watch.
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December 9, 2010Very funny, romantic, and full of high stakes, blithely clumsy action, another Coen collaboration goes off without a hitch. Between the alluring Zeta Jones and the always dashing and perfectly cast Clooney, there is instant elligibility for a perfect film.
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September 3, 2009Known as the Coen's first commercial film, which isn't entirely accurate. It certainly didn't have the same feel though, and it certainly wasn't up to their usual standards. That said, it really wasn't as bad as everyone said, the chemistry between Zeta-Jones and Clooney is elect... read more
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August 26, 2009although this film is a bit more panned than most coen films, i dont feel that the criticisms are deserved. this is definitely not a run of the mill romantic comedy. it was phenomenally well written, well shot by deakins, and well performed by each of the actors. a worth while... read more
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July 23, 2009Funny comedy about a divorce lawyer falling for a gold digger. Great chemistry between George and Catherine. George is brilliant at the slapstick comedy. Billy Bob Thorton was good.
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May 12, 2009"Your husband had told me you were the most beautiful woman he'd ever met. I didn't expect the most beautiful woman I'd ever met."
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January 5, 2009I am giving this a recommendation, but a minor one. The movie is uneven, and the script is quite weak, but the movie, like all Coen Bros. films, is still interesting, no matter how many flaws exist within. It is a quirky take on the screwball comedies of the 1930's/40's, and ther... read more
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November 19, 2008I want to give props to the Coens for actually taking on various genres with their films. While we are on the subject of genres, romance is not one of my favorites, but the Coens actually do something decent with this picture. Unfortunately, it is still a disappointing movie fr... read more
Critic Reviews
October 13, 2009
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
November 7, 2007
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
The Coens do an efficient job of stamping their signature grotesquerie on sumptuous Beverly Hills and Las Vegas settings and ladling on gallows humor and malice, sometimes with the verve of early Robe... Full Review
October 23, 2003
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
The Coen Brothers do provide enough of a diversion with bits and pieces of wacko casting, and with the deranged details of dress and makeup of their fleeting gargoyles, to make the proceedings at leas... Full Review
October 16, 2003
Rex Reed, New York Observer
This dim-witted, mean-spirited and brain-dead calamity should surprise no one. Full Review
October 13, 2003
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
[T]here's a lot of problems with the script, and some of the stuff with Edward Herrmann I don't think works at all, it's not funny it just kind of falls flat. But Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones, I t... Full Review
October 11, 2003
David Edelstein, Slate
No different from most of the other dumb slapstick spoofs that pass for screwball comedy these days. Full Review
October 11, 2003
Charles Taylor, Salon.com
George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones square off deliciously, but this '30s-style battle of the sexes from the Coen brothers never catches fire. Full Review
October 10, 2003
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
In its nasty, blackhearted take on contemporary coupling and uncoupling, Intolerable Cruelty has the distant though unmistakable ring of truth. Full Review
October 10, 2003
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
Smart, silly, splenetic and a bit smug, it's a movie that might put a viewer's teeth on edge were it not for its winning lead performances. Full Review
October 10, 2003
Claudia Puig, USA Today
Not brilliantly funny nor incisively clever, Intolerable Cruelty is still moderately satirical and laugh-out-loud enjoyable. Full Review
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