Intolerable Cruelty

Intolerable Cruelty (2003) is a crime-tinged romantic comedy from the Coen Brothers that you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Joel Coen, it stars George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones at their sharpest.

Miles Massey is the most feared divorce attorney in Los Angeles, with everything except a rival worth beating. Enter Marylin Rexroth, a glamorous schemer who has turned lucrative divorces into a profession. He is used to winning. She refuses to lose. Their duel spills out of the courtroom into a personal war, where a prenuptial agreement becomes a weapon and mutual attraction keeps wrecking both their cold calculations. Geoffrey Rush, Billy Bob Thornton and Edward Herrmann round out the cast.

The Coens bend the rom-com to their own taste here, all icy wit and predatory dialogue. It is one of their lightest, most venomous comedies, where the gloss of Beverly Hills becomes a battlefield for two equally cynical minds. Stream Intolerable Cruelty (2003) online in high quality on iFILM.