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Intolerable Cruelty
Directed by
Joel Coen
PG-13
2003
1h 40m
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6.3
76%
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Miles, a high-profile divorce lawyer, wins a case for his rich but adulterous client Rex Rexroth. But Rex's ex-wife, Marylin, who is no saint and is a gold-digger, plots to take revenge on Miles.
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Cast of Intolerable Cruelty
George Clooney
Miles
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Marilyn
Geoffrey Rush
Donovan Donaly
Cedric the Entertainer
Gus Petch
Edward Herrmann
Rex Rexroth
Paul Adelstein
Wrigley
Richard Jenkins
Freddy Bender
Billy Bob Thornton
Howard D. Doyle
Julia Duffy
Sarah Sorkin
Jonathan Hadary
Heinz, the Baron Krauss von Espy
Tom Aldredge
Herb Myerson
Stacey Travis
Bonnie Donaly
Jack Kyle
Ollie Olerud
Irwin Keyes
Wheezy Joe
Judith Drake
Mrs. Gutman
George Ives
Mrs. Gutman's Lawyer
Booth Colman
Gutman Trial Judge
Kristin Dattilo
Rex's Young Woman
Wendle Josepher
Miles' Receptionist
Mary Pat Gleason
Nero's Waitress
Mia Cottet
Ramona Barcelona
Kiersten Warren
Claire O'Mara
Rosey Brown
Gus's Pal
Ken Sagoes
Gus's Pal
Dale E. Turner
Gus's Pal
Douglas Fisher
Maitre d'
Nicholas Shaffer
Waiter
Isabell O'Connor
Judge Marva Munson
Mary Gillis
Court Reporter
Colin Linden
Father Scott
Julie Osburn
Stewardess
Gary Marshal
Las Vegas Waiter
Blake Clark
Convention Secretary
Allan Trautman
Convention Lawyer
Kate Luyben
Santa Fe Tart
Kitana Baker
Santa Fe Tart
Camille Anderson
Santa Fe Tart
Tamie Sheffield
Santa Fe Tart
Bridget Marquardt
Santa Fe Tart
Emma Harrison
Santa Fe Tart
John Bliss
Mr. MacKinnon
Patrick Thomas O'Brien
Bailiff
Sean Fenton
Bailiff
Bruce Campbell
Soap Opera Actor on TV (uncredited)
Intolerable Cruelty Ratings & Reviews
Bill S.
7d ago
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Austin Chronicle
Marrit Ingman
The loversâ(TM) chemistry lends a welcome carnality to the film, balancing out the filmmakersâ(TM) more arch, quixotic tendencies.
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Screwball comedy for older teens and adults.
Premiere Magazine
Glenn Kenny
While it's not nearly as beguiling as the Coen's last pic, the uncanny The Man Who Wasn't There, Cruelty is still a brisk hoot.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
How it plays with audiences, your guess is as good as mine, but if this is what happens when Joel and Ethan Coen sell out, here's one vote for them to do it more often.
TIME Magazine
Richard Corliss
Here's an anomaly: a comedy about smart people.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
The Coens do an efficient job of stamping their signature grotesquerie on sumptuous Beverly Hills and Las Vegas settings and ladling on gallows humor and malice, sometimes with the verve of early Robert Zemeckis.
Nitrate Online
Nick Schager
"Intolerable Cruelty merely resembles a typical Hollywood love story embellished with a few signature Coen touches."
Observer
Andrew Sarris
The Coen Brothers do provide enough of a diversion with bits and pieces of wacko casting, and with the deranged details of dress and makeup of their fleeting gargoyles, to make the proceedings at least moderately amusing.
Observer
Rex Reed
This dim-witted, mean-spirited and brain-dead calamity should surprise no one.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
[T]here's a lot of problems with the script, and some of the stuff with Edward Herrmann I don't think works at all, it's not funny it just kind of falls flat. But Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones, I think they deliver enough to say it's worth seeing.
Slate
David Edelstein
No different from most of the other dumb slapstick spoofs that pass for screwball comedy these days.
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones square off deliciously, but this '30s-style battle of the sexes from the Coen brothers never catches fire.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
In its nasty, blackhearted take on contemporary coupling and uncoupling, Intolerable Cruelty has the distant though unmistakable ring of truth.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Smart, silly, splenetic and a bit smug, it's a movie that might put a viewer's teeth on edge were it not for its winning lead performances.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Wonderfully fluffy concoction.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Not brilliantly funny nor incisively clever, Intolerable Cruelty is still moderately satirical and laugh-out-loud enjoyable.
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
Too slick but amusing marital farce.
New York Times
Elvis Mitchell
An intelligent, modern screwball comedy.
New York Post
Megan Lehmann
Harks back to the screwball comedies of Howard Hawks and Preston Sturges -- and owes much of its pizzazz to the spark-plug pairing of George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
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