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Irreconcilable Differences (1984)
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28 September 1984 (USA)
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They've Got Everything... including a 10 year old daughter who's suing them for divorce. more
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Alternating between the past and the present, a precocious little girl sues her selfish, career-driven parents for emancipation, surprising them both. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for 2 Golden Globes.
Another 1 nomination
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(13 articles)
Book Review – "Divorce Sucks" by Mary Jo Eustace
(From TVovermind.com. 19 October 2009, 6:36 PM, PDT)
Avril Lavigne Figures Best Damn Thing Is Divorce
(From E! Online. 14 October 2009, 4:41 PM, PDT)
(From TVovermind.com. 19 October 2009, 6:36 PM, PDT)
Avril Lavigne Figures Best Damn Thing Is Divorce
(From E! Online. 14 October 2009, 4:41 PM, PDT)
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Tough on Hollywood
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Ryan O'Neal | ... | Albert Brodsky | |
| Shelley Long | ... | Lucy Van Patten Brodsky | |
| Drew Barrymore | ... | Casey Brodsky | |
| Sam Wanamaker | ... | David Kessler | |
| Allen Garfield | ... | Phil Hanner | |
| Sharon Stone | ... | Blake Chandler (aka Amanda) | |
| Kim Marriner | ... | Reporter | |
| Wendy Gordon | ... | Reporter | |
| Ken Gale | ... | Reporter | |
| Deborah Cody | ... | Reporter | |
| Steven K. Miller | ... | Reporter | |
| Annie Meyers-Shyer | ... | Little Girl in Crowd | |
| Lauren Hartman | ... | Woman on the Street | |
| David Paymer | ... | Alan Sluiser | |
| Larry Marko | ... | Court Clerk |
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113 min
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Casey Brodsky:
I'm just a kid, and I don't know what I'm doing sometimes. But I think you should know better when you're all grown up. I think you should know how to act, and how to treat people. And I think if you once loved someone enough to marry them, you should at least be nice to them...
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Features An Affair to Remember (1957)
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This Belle
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Say what you will about the Shyer-Meyers team ("Private Benjamin", "Father Of The Bride", "Baby Boom"), they know how to craft a movie, often exploiting every ounce of sentiment from their scripts. "Irreconcilable Differences" is somewhat of a departure for them however, a depiction of neurotic movie people, denizens of Hollywood, who have hardly any good points. As soon as the young couple finds success, it's a rich road downhill. The plot set-up has youngster Drew Barrymore trying to emancipate herself away from her famous mom and dad, and the H-Wood high-life is shown as both cause and effect. A terrific sequence involving Sharon Stone in a quasi-musical version of "Gone With The Wind" is satiric comic genius, yet the movie is so hard on its players, so brittle and tough, it's difficult to shake off the bad vibes even as the third act winds down to a sunny conclusion. Perceptively, the screenplay includes many awful (and awfully funny) truths about marriage, money and careers, but the cynical undermining of the picture may put fluff-oriented viewers off. ***1/2 from ****