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丹尼·德维托
迈克尔·道格拉斯凯瑟琳·特纳丹尼·德维托马丽安·萨格布雷特西恩·奥斯汀HeatherFairfieldG·D·斯普拉德林彼得·多纳特丹·卡斯泰兰尼塔格洛丽亚·克伦威尔HarlanArnoldMaryFogarty丽卡·霍夫曼PatriciaAllison彼得·布罗科
电影
美国
1989
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律师加维（丹尼·迪维图 Danny DeVito 饰）在自己的办公室里，正在向一位想要离婚的年轻人讲述一段“玫瑰大战”的故事：奥利佛（迈克尔·道格拉斯 Michael Douglas 饰）与太太芭芭拉（凯瑟琳·特纳 Kathleen Turner 饰）相识于一场拍卖会，而后两人很快结婚生子。身为律师的奥立佛整日忙于自己的工作，曾为体操运动员的芭芭拉醉心于相夫教子的生活，一家人过着令所有朋友羡慕不已的生活。当他们实现对于家庭所有的梦想（身居豪宅、儿女上大学、满屋的古董和收藏品）之后，芭芭拉开始有声有色的经营起一家外烩公司，然而这时他们之间的关系却出现了问题以至于最终走到离婚的地步。在房子的归属问题上，俩人都毫不让步，于是豪宅变成战场，珍爱的收藏品变成砸向对方的武器，就连宠物也成为相互报复的工具……
Oliver Rose (Michael Douglas), a student at Harvard Law School, meets Barbara (Kathleen Turner) at an auction on the island of Nantucket, where they bid on the same antique: mistakenly undervalued 18th-century Chinese homunculus statuette. Oliver chats Barbara up and they become friends. When Barbara misses her ferry home, the two end up spending the night together at a local inn. Eventually after a whirlwind romance, the two get married.
Three years later, the Roses have a family of boisterous twins, Josh and Carolyn, who distract Oliver from his efforts to complete a Harvard University law degree. One Christmas Eve, Oliver is busy with his studies and doesn't want anyone to distract him, but Barbara insists they go for a walk and surprises her husband with an antique Morgan automobile.
Five years later, Barbara and Oliver relocate to Washington DC where Oliver becomes an associate lawyer at a firm with Gavin, and angles for a more prestigious role. Sometime later, Barbara discovers that the owner of her "dream home" has died, and the Roses move into the mansion. Over the next six years, Oliver becomes a senior partner while Barbara refurbishes the house. Once the remodeling is complete, Barbara announces her plan to start a small business, selling pâté to fellow housewives. Anticipating a lucrative enterprise, Barbara buys an enormous sport utility (SUV) truck for $25,000. As her business flourishes and the Rose twins prepare to attend Harvard, Oliver persuades his wife to hire a live-in housekeeper named Susan (Marianne Sägebrecht).
At first, Oliver and Barbara's marriage is happy and content as both of them share their materialist ways and views of modern American society with purchases of expensive furniture and clothing to show off their wealth. However, cracks seem to be forming in the family, such as the children growing up overweight because the shallow and insecure Barbara thinks that spoiling them with candy treats is positive, and they do not get in shape until their teen years. Soon, Barbara appears to grow tired of her life with Oliver, and at the same time, begins to dislike him and everything he does. As Barbara becomes more cold and distant, Oliver, for his part, cannot understand what he has done to earn Barbara's growing contempt of him. The reason being is that Oliver remains oblivious to his controlling, self-centered, indifferent and generally dismissive behavior toward her.
One evening, when Oliver fails to read her catering business contract due to having a get together with some clients at their house, an argument ensues, and Barbara uses her strength as a gymnast to squeeze Oliver's waist between her thighs. At a lunch meeting the following day, Oliver convulses in pain and believes he is dying from a heart attack, but soon learns he has a harmless hernia and attributes it to Barbara's leg grip the previous evening. When Barbara fails to arrive at the hospital, Oliver returns home with a note he scrawled when he thought he was near death, declaring to Barbara: "All I am and all I have I owe to you." However, Barbara is unmoved. She later confesses that she felt happy at the prospect of Oliver's death and asks for a divorce. She proves that she is serious when she physically punches Oliver in his face and he immediately agrees to a divorce.
Sometime later, the couple meets Barbara's divorce lawyer, Harry Thurmont (G.D. Spradin), who states that Barbara wants nothing from Oliver but the house and all of its contents. Oliver argues that he is legally entitled to half of everything they own. When Oliver insists that his earnings paid for the home, the attorney quotes Oliver's "deathbed" note. Enraged, Oliver declares war on his wife and vows she will never get the house. Aware that it might not be wise to represent himself despite being a professional lawyer, Oliver hires Gavin on retainer to be his legal representation.
