Intolerable Cruelty (2003) - March 4, 2014

[Akijama]

http://www.amazon.com/Intolerable-Cr...370606&sr=1-52

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.

Intolerable Cruelty Official Trailer #1 - Edward Herrmann Movie (2003) HD - YouTube

[GaragePoet]

bummer, this is definitely on the bottom of the list of Coen Bros. movies i'd like to upgrade from DVD

[klauswhereareyou]

The worst Coen Brothers movie....but Catherine Zeta Jones was probably at her most beautiful here..or close to it.

[Monterey Jack]

Originally Posted by klauswhereareyou

The worst Coen Brothers movie....

...is better than 90% of the usual Hollywood crap.

Nice this is getting released, but I already got the UK Coen set that included this and Barton Fink. What I really want is The Man Who Wasn't There and The Ladykillers so I can complete my HD Coen collection.

[GenPion]

I agree that this is the absolute worst Coen brothers film... they were working with that one producer on this and on The Ladykillers and that's where there was a slight step down in quality before it picked back up again...

Having said that, I'll get it. I'll want it for my Coen collection.

The Man Who Wasn't There is one of their best works. I hope that receives a release soon.

[baheidstu]

I have this as part of the UK box set. I wouldn't want to ever buy it as a separate release. It's not a bad film at all though, it's just not up to the Coen Brothers standard. It's a damn sight more enjoyable than your average Sandra Bullock, Meg Ryan rom-com.

[buck135]

Originally Posted by GaragePoet

bummer, this is definitely on the bottom of the list of Coen Bros. movies i'd like to upgrade from DVD

Agreed. Mercifully it was included in the U.K. boxset with A Serious Man and Barton Fink among others. I can say I have it for completest reasons. That leaves The Ladykillers.

[Scottie]

One of my least favorite Coen Bros. films, but it's a pretty fun movie, so I may pick it up.

[GuruAskew]

I don't blame the collaboration itself for the failure of either Raimi/Coen film. The screenplay had nothing to do with the nightmare production of Crimewave and in hindsight making Hudsucker as a big-budget Joel Silver film was a mismatch to say the least.

Can you really come up with a scenario in which those two films would have turned out substantially different with slightly-different scripts? The problems on both were bigger than that.

I think under different circumstances the Coen/Raimi collaboration could have been right up there with Lucas/Spielberg and Tarantino/Rodriguez but show business politics conspired against them.

[tylergfoster]

Just out of curiosity, is it only a new slipcover, or is the actual sleeve art changed as well?

[James Luckard]

Is the 2019 edition, which doesn't have the blue banner on top from the 2014 edition, still a pressed disc?

I think some of these Universal catalog reissues have been BD-Rs.