The War of the Roses (1989)
Black as pitch and funny to boot, this portrait of a violently dissolving marriage is one of the nastiest slices of gallows humor to ever emerge from Hollywood. I'm still in awe of how it avoids blowing itself to pieces every time it downshifts into even darker territory -- it starts as a relationship comedy, but by the end of the film we're somehow embroiled in an Argentoesque two-character stalk-and-slash... and it still gets laughs. A bit uneven but when it's on it's amazing. (Best line: "And now I'm gonna go piss on the fish.")
Grade: B+
Black as pitch and funny to boot, this portrait of a violently dissolving marriage is one of the nastiest slices of gallows humor to ever emerge from Hollywood. I'm still in awe of how it avoids blowing itself to pieces every time it downshifts into even darker territory -- it starts as a relationship comedy, but by the end of the film we're somehow embroiled in an Argentoesque two-character stalk-and-slash... and it still gets laughs. A bit uneven but when it's on it's amazing. (Best line: "And now I'm gonna go piss on the fish.")
Grade: B+
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