Harvard Law student Oliver Rose meets Barbara when they bid on the same antique at a Nantucket auction. The pair start a passionate relationship, eventually marrying, having two children, and buying a large house in Washington, D.C. Over the next eighteen years, Oliver becomes a wealthy and influential corporate lawyer, while Barbara dedicates herself to raising their children and creating an aesthetically perfect home filled with material objects. With the children grown and soon leaving for college, Barbara realizes that she is unfulfilled and regrets the sacrifices she made to support her family. Having grown to resent Oliver's workaholism, controlling nature, and obliviousness to her feelings, she starts a catering company to achieve financial independence.
MPAA Rating: | R |
Genre: | Comedy, Romance |
Country: | United States |
Produced By: | James L. Brooks, Arnon Milchan, Polly Platt, J. Marina Muhlfriedel, Michael Leeson, Doug Claybourne |
Directed By: | Danny DeVito |
Written By: | Michael Leeson, Warren Adler |
Cast: | Jeff Thomas, Sean Astin, Robert Harper, Eunice Suarez, Shirley Mitchell, Peter Donat, Lisa Howard, Danny DeVito, Popeye, Danitra Vance, Tony Crane, Peter Brocco, Trenton Teigen, Rika Hofmann, Susan Isaacs, Patricia Allison, Ellen Crawford, G.D. Spradlin, Marianne Sägebrecht, Heather Fairfield, Dan Castellaneta, Bethany McKinney, Michael Adler, Vickilyn Reynolds, Peter Hansen, David Wohl, Roy Brocksmith, Prince Hughes, Gloria Cromwell, Mary Fogarty, Jacqueline Cassell, Kathleen Turner, Harlan Arnold, Philip Perlman, Michael Douglas |
In Theaters: | Dec 08, 1989 |
Runtime: | 1 hour 56 minutes |
Production: | Twentieth Century Fox, Gracie Films |
Budget: | $26,000,000 |
Box Office: | $86,888,546 |
Available On: | Amazon, Itunes, Vudu |
Read More On: | Wikipedia |