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The War of the Roses

...DeVito delivers the blackest of black farces, charting the gradual disintegration of a relationship and demonstrating the violence (...) that people can do to each other when their needs and desires gradually cease to correspond.

The War of the Roses is a black, angry, bitter, unrelenting comedy, a war between the sexes that makes James Thurber's work on the same subject look almost resigned by comparison.

When it comes to dark satires of the romantic comedy genre, few films are more vicious than Danny DeVito's 1989 offering, The War of the Roses.

At once horrific and hilarious, THE WAR OF THE ROSES is made with a high level of cinematic craft...