Intolerable Cruelty
2003
**
Director: Joel Coen
Cast: George Clooney, Catherine Zeta Jones, Billy Bob Thornton, Geoffrey Rush, Cedric the Entertainer, Edward Herrmann, Richard Jenkins, Paul Adelstein, Julia Duffy
Miles Massey is a cocky and suave divorce attorney who meets his match in Marylin Rexroth, a beautiful gold digger who wants to divorce her rich husband. The tenth feature by the Coen brothers is a studio movie, which is not based on their original material, and consequently one of their weakest efforts. This is a cringey and predictable romantic farce, which doesn't work because I don't like Miles or Marylin. Catherine Zeta-Jones is very good as a seductive femme fatale but George Clooney mugs his way through a forgettable performance.
