Intolerable Cruelty

Name: Intolerable Cruelty
Released: 2003-10-10
Cast: George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Geoffrey Rush, Billy Bob Thornton, Cedric the Entertainer

Intolerable Cruelty

PG-13
1h 39m
2003

75%

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It's comic gold as two of Hollywood's most dazzling stars - George Clooney and Academy Award® winner, Catherine Zeta-Jones - light up the screen in Intolerable Cruelty, a hilarious romantic comedy about men, women, and everything that can go wrong between them. Sparks fly when brilliant divorce attorney Miles Massey (Clooney) meets his match in the beautiful but ruthless Marylin Rexroth (Zeta-Jones). From Academy Award®-winning directors Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (Fargo; O Brother, Where Art Thou?), Intolerable Cruelty also stars multi-talented Billy Bob Thornton and outrageous Cedric The Entertainer.

Director:

Joel Coen

Producer:

Ethan Coen, Brian Grazer

Writer:

Robert Ramsey, Matthew Stone, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

Cast:

George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Geoffrey Rush, Billy Bob Thornton, Cedric the Entertainer, Edward Herrman, Paul Adelstein, Richard Jenkins, Julia Duffy

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

75%

Critics Consensus: Though more mainstream than other Coen films, there are still funny oddball touches, and Clooney and Zeta-Jones sizzle like old-time movie stars.

Reviews

Deep Focus Review

Brian Eggert

Whatever Intolerable Cruelty lacks in the Coens' usual visual richness, it is replaced with slick plotting, attractive stars, and riotous humor.

February 20, 2022

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Thirty, Flirty + Film

Cate Young

The standout by far is Catherine Zeta-Jones, who maintains such a casual aloofness throughout that it isn't hard to see why Miles is so taken with her. Marilyn's con is long, but it's worth it.

A vastly underrated Coen Brothers confection.

February 19, 2021

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World Socialist Web Site

David Walsh

Intolerable Cruelty by the Coen brothers, Ethan and Joel, is a more consistent and pleasing work, concerning the state of American marriage and divorce among the moneyed.

A bland studio comedy with some genuinely terrific bits.

June 2, 2020

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