Intolerable Cruelty is a comedy about marriage, and mostly the bizarre marriage between the dark laughs characteristic of the Coen Brothers and the zany comic fare popular in films about 50 years ago. It's like seeing Judy Holliday in a Bunuel film. Well. It's surreal, anyway. And very funny.

George Clooney stars as a no-holds-barred divorce lawyer and Catherine Zeta-Jones co-stars as the golddigger who becomes the object of his affection. They duke it out in divorce court, when he destroys her pose as a wronged woman and exposes her calculating ways. She is hoping to get a divorce that will leave her rich and independent. Once Clooney is through with her, she's divorced, all right, but penniless.
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For about an hour, Intolerable Cruelty is a tolerable little battle-of-the-sexes farce.

It's a throwback to those wonderful old romantic comedies of the '40s and '50s where the would-be lovers would spar wittily until they could no longer deny the real feelings they had for one another.
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