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
Olivia Colman
Ivy Rose
Benedict Cumberbatch
Theo Rose
Andy Samberg
Barry
Kate McKinnon
Amy
Belinda Bromilow
Janice
Ncuti Gatwa
Jeffrey
Sunita Mani
Jane
Zoë Chao
Sally
Jamie Demetriou
Rory
Allison Janney
Eleanor
Delaney Quinn
Hattie Rose (Younger)
Ollie Robinson
Roy Rose (Younger)
Hala Finley
Hattie Rose (Older)
Wells Rappaport
Roy Rose (Older)
Will Smith
Derek
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.
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