The brutal 1989 touch made a much-loved onscreen pairing, Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, and snap them to pieces
It’s easy to forget just how frequently, bracingly horrible The War of the Roses is, thanks in great portion to the extravagant, and joyous, studio packaging it arrived in, unwrapped in cinemas 30 years ago this month. It was fast-paced, glossy, Christmassy and, deceptively, it starred one of the most beloved onscreen marries of the 80 s: Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. Audiences were acquainted to seeing them bicker in the stumble undertakings Wooing the Stone and The Jewel of the Nile but their sparring was only ever of the fruitcake hodgepodge, a cord of lighthearted quips signposting a Billy Ocean-soundtracked happy intention on the horizon.
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