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5.6/10   1,279 votes
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Director:
Charles Shyer
Writers:
Nancy Meyers (written by)
Charles Shyer (written by)
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Release Date:
28 September 1984 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama | Romance more
Tagline:
They've Got Everything... including a 10 year old daughter who's suing them for divorce. more
Plot:
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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Awards:
Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 1 nomination more
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(13 articles)
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Tough on Hollywood more (28 total)

Cast

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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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Runtime:
113 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Finland:K-8 | UK:15 | Australia:PG | USA:PG
Company:
Hemdale Film more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Sharon Stone's character is modeled upon Cybill Shepherd, a former lover of Peter Bogdanovich. more
Quotes:
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... more
Movie Connections:
Features An Affair to Remember (1957) more
Soundtrack:
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Tough on Hollywood, 24 May 2001
8/10
Author: moonspinner55 from redlands, ca

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 ****

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