Intolerable cruelty [DVD] / Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment present a Brian Grazer production in association with Alphaville ; produced by Ethan Coen, Brian Grazer ; screenplay by Robert Ramsey & Matthew Stone and Ethan Coen & Joel Coen ; directed by Joel Coen.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2003. Special features: making-of featurette; wardrobe featurette; outtakes; Rex Rexroth's home movies. George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Geoffrey Rush, Cedric the Entertainer, Edward Herrmann, Paul Adelstein, Richard Jenkins, Billy Bob Thornton.
Summary:
Miles Massey is a high-powered Los Angeles divorce lawyer nearing a midlife crisis. While representing his wealthy client Rex Rexroth, Miles meets his match in Rex's gold-digging wife, Marilyn. He's impressed by her similarly heartless ways of using marriage to fuel an expensive lifestyle, but Miles still manages to defeat her in court. With Marilyn looking to get her revenge and Miles finding himself attracted to her, the two engage in a ruthless romantic pursuit to out-swindle each other.
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