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Oct 10, 2003 · Intolerable Cruelty: Directed by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen. With George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Geoffrey Rush, Cedric The Entertainer. Miles, a high-profile divorce lawyer, wins a case for his rich but adulterous client Rex Rexroth.
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- Comedy, Crime, Romance
- Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
- 2003-10-10
Intolerable Cruelty is a 2003 American romantic comedy film directed, co-written and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen, and produced by Brian Grazer and the Coens. The script was written by Robert Ramsey and Matthew Stone and Ethan and Joel Coen, with the latter writing the last draft of the screenplay.
Herb Myerson : I'm going to talk to you about the God damn law. We serve the law. We honor the law! And sometimes, Counselor, we obey the law. But, Counselor, this is not one of those times.
Miles's aged boss, Herb Myerson (Tom Aldredge), congratulates Miles on his fine work. Marylin wants revenge and gets it with the help of broke soap producer Donaly, whom she finds living on the street clutching his Emmy statuette.
The senior partner of Miles's firm (Tom Aldredge) is portrayed as something like a German Expressionist gargoyle; a waitress (Mary Pat Gleason) at a crummy diner brings a note of sardonic irritation that makes her feel, for just a couple of lines (including the film's only use of the word "fuck"; the screenplay had to be bleached clean to ...
That said: The movie has many scenes of delicious comedy, Cloo-ney and Zeta-Jones play their characters perfectly in an imperfect screenplay, and the man with the asthma puffer gets the biggest single laugh since the hair gel in "There's Something About Mary."
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The filmmakers even include a seemingly superfluous scene in which a nervous Miles is called to the office of (very) senior partner Herb Myerson (Tom Aldredge) as an elaborate setup for a brilliant visual sexual metaphor in a return visit.
