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therockstop

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Not bad. I really like Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas and they did a great job in this movie. I had not seen this in years but caught it last night and forgot that it is a pretty good movie. I remember it being funnier the last time I watched...
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Not bad. I really like Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas and they did a great job in this movie. I had not seen this in years but caught it last night and forgot that it is a pretty good movie. I remember it being funnier the last time I watched it but this time it came across as a little more serious to me. Anyway you look at it the movie is pretty good. You should watch it if you have never seen it before.

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Posted jul 21, 2008 1:35 am pt

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I love this movie, I watch it at least once a month. You can NOT GO WRONG with Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas and Danny Devito.They have not worked together since 1989, I think it's about time they do another movie together. They bring out...
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I love this movie, I watch it at least once a month. You can NOT GO WRONG with Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas and Danny Devito.They have not worked together since 1989, I think it's about time they do another movie together. They bring out the best in each other!!!!!!!!!

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Posted may 10, 2008 12:06 pm pt

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This is the a fantastic movie with micheal douglas, Kathleen Turner and danny devito back together again. This is mad , wild, crazy time of a movie. douglas and Turner are once again at there best in this movie.

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Posted jan 3, 2008 4:40 am pt

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The movie certainly was not that bad, the plot was interesting and I don't think that it was that awful. I like the story and the concept of the movie, a great cast too, Michael Douglas, Danny DeVito, Kathleen Turner, everyone was perfect in this...
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The movie certainly was not that bad, the plot was interesting and I don't think that it was that awful. I like the story and the concept of the movie, a great cast too, Michael Douglas, Danny DeVito, Kathleen Turner, everyone was perfect in this movie, they are awesome, and I think this movie was great.

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Posted feb 28, 2007 7:06 am pt

• [+] Time
  
  100
  But it is the style with which this wild farce is developed that sustains our horrified interest and keeps us laughing as the darkness gathers around Barbara and Oliver. [11 Dec 1989]

  by Richard Schickel | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  90
  A compellingly watchable, suspenseful, and often funny treatment of a grim subject--the hatred that can build up in a long-term marriage--that also becomes an indirect commentary on yuppie materialism.

  by Jonathan Rosenbaum | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  90
  Biting and vicious, a styptic pencil on the battered face of "civilized divorce." It's also thoughtful, laceratingly funny, and bravely true to its own black-and-blue comic vision. [8 Dec 1989]

  by Sheila Benson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Rolling Stone
  
  90
  Under the astute direction of Danny DeVito, who does a sly turn as Oliver's attorney, this acid-dipped epic of revenge is killingly funny and dramatically daring.

  by Peter Travers | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  83
  DeVito doesn't hesitate to send the camera anywhere to goose the humor.

  by Steve Daly | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  80
  Director DeVito, who never did know when to quit, manages to be as clever as he is vicious. His first movie, "Throw Momma From the Train," seems almost lyrical in comparison to the ruthlessness of this vehicle.

  by Rita Kempley | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  80
  The most brutal husband-wife encounter since axe-wielding Jack Nicholson yelled "Heeeeere's Johnny!" to Shelley Duvall in Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining."

  by Desson Thomson | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  80
  DeVito films this tale with a fiendish gusto, yet with psychological realism and meticulous attention to an inexorable logic in the plotting, even as the Roses' war moves from the outlandish to the surreal.

  by Staff (Not Credited) | Read Full Review »
• [+] Empire
  
  80
  Quite shocking, almost avant-garde in the way it constantly confounds expectations built up over years of formula pictures.

  by Staff (Not Credited) | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  75
  It can't be easy to keep a comedy on track when the underlying emotions are so vicious, and indeed DeVito's staging slips more than once -- too realistic here, too broad there -- resulting in a film that is at least as often funny-peculiar as it is funny-haha. [8 Dec 1989]

  by Dave Kehr | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  75
  Although the movie goes too far, you can hardly get enough of its delicious atmosphere - and of Turner, in particular, who has never looked better on the big screen. [8 Dec 1989]

  by Peter Stack | Read Full Review »
• [+] Christian Science Monitor
  
  75
  The ending is especially inventive, managing to be sour, cynical, sentimental, and upbeat at the same time. [22 Dec 1989]

  by David Sterritt | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  75
  The movie treads a dangerous line. There are times when its ferocity threatens to break through the boundaries of comedy - to become so unremitting we find we cannot laugh.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
  75
  This smashingly filmed and performed one-shot is (uh, so to speak) the year's best romantic comedy. [8 Dec 1989]

  by Mike Clark | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  70
  The film's outstanding nastiness, which is often diabolically funny until a poorly staged final battle sequence simply takes things too far, has something real and recognizable at its core.

  by Elvis Mitchell | Read Full Review »