With the 84th Academy Awards being presented we thought we would repost our blog on the:
Top 10 divorce movies
In keeping with our previous top 10 blog formats, here is a short summary of our top picks for best divorce movies of all time.
This list is purely subjective and everyone will have their own opinions as to their favorites. Please share your opinions and suggestions for best divorce movies of all time.
So here we go, our top 10 picks for the best divorce movies of all time:
#10
Sweet Home Alabama
A young woman with a white trash background runs away from her husband in Alabama and reinvents herself as a New York socialite.
IMBd’s Rating: 5.8
(The Internet Movie Database)
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#9
It’s Complicated
When attending their son’s college graduation, a couple reignite the spark in their relationship but the complicated fact is they’re divorced and he’s remarried.
IMBd’s Rating: 6.6
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#8
Old School
Three men are disenchanted with life and try to recapture their college days.
Will Ferrell streaking “through the quad” and seeking some KFC. How could you go wrong?
IMBd’s Rating: 7.0
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#7
The First Wives Club
Reunited by the death of a college friend, three divorced women seek revenge on the husbands who left them for younger women.
Nothing new here really.
IMBd’s Rating: 5.7
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#6
Laws of Attraction
Amidst a sea of litigation, two New York City divorce lawyers find love.
If only real family lawyers were so attractive and affable.
IMBd’s Rating: 5.7
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#5
Mrs Doubtfire
After a bitter divorce, an actor disguises himself as a female housekeeper to spend secret time with his children held in custody by his ex.
Daniel (the actor) would, in real life, likely be subject to a restraining order, a court ordered psychiatric evaluation and supervised access.
IMBd’s Rating: 6.6
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#4
Liar Liar
A fast track lawyer can’t lie for 24 hours due to his son’s birthday wish after the lawyer turns his son down for the last time.
Fletcher (Jim Carrey) is a career-focused lawyer and divorced father with a reputation earned from compulsive lying. He is good with the “claw” but his job is his priority and he has a pension for lying to his son Max.
IMBd’s Rating: 6.7
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#3
Kramer v. Kramer
A just divorced man must learn to care for his son on his own, and then must fight in court to keep custody of him.
A good example of the tender years doctrine of the 70’s and the alienating affect it had on fathers. Also another story of a workaholic executive father losing custody of his son. A pattern for Hollywood movie makers.
IMBd’s Rating: 7.7
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#2
War of the Roses
A married couple try everything to get each other to leave the house in a vicious divorce battle.
Really a story of our adversarial court system gone wild. These people should have tried collaborative practice.
IMBd’s Rating: 6.7
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and … #1
Intolerable Cruelty
A revenge-seeking gold digger marries a womanizing Beverly Hills lawyer with the intention of making a killing in the divorce.
George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones, how could you go wrong with this one?
IMBd’s Rating: 6.4
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Honorary Mentions
Wedding Crashers (1985)
John Beckwith and Jeremy Grey, a pair of committed womanizers who sneak into weddings to take advantage of the romantic tinge in the air, find themselves at odds with one another when John meets and falls for Claire Cleary.
She Devil (1989)
A clever and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.
Waiting to Exhale (1995)
This film follows four very different African-American women and their relationships with the male gender.
Dodsworth (1936)
A bittersweet tale of the increasing estrangement of a retired automobile tycoon and his wife.
Hope Floats (1998)
Birdee Calvert must choose between her morals and her heart after her husband divorces her and a charming young man, who her daughter disapproves of, comes back into her life.
Out of Africa (1985)
A Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate but ultimately doomed love affair with a free-sprited big-game hunter.
