Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy and Theo: successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo's career nosedives while Ivy's own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites.
Acting
Colman and Cumberbatch's escalating warfare is masterclass uncomfortable.
Writing
Dinner party scenes where compliments land like shrapnel.
Direction
Roach finds horror in perfectly staged suburban aesthetics.

Director
Jay Roach
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is Jay Roach's remake of the 1989 Kathleen Turner-Michael Douglas film 'The War of the Roses,' itself an adaptation of Warren Adler's novel.
Colman reportedly insisted on extensive rewrites to make Ivy's ambition sympathetic rather than purely monstrous, shifting the power dynamics from the original's more nihilistic vision.