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Theme: Hollywood couple Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones face bitter divorce -- in different movies!

"Intolerable Cruelty" (2003) -- George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Geoffrey Rush, Cedric the Entertainer; directed by Joel Coen, co-produced by Ethan Coen, who both contributed to the script. In this dark comedy with quirky touches, a ruthless divorce attorney falls hard for the gold digging victim of his legal tricks. She's hot for teacher, too, but is her fuel romance or revenge?

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"The War of the Roses" (1989) -- Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito; directed by Danny DeVito. More beautiful rich people lose that loving feeling and go for the kill in their vicious property settlement. A lark, turned sinister, some critics said it goes too far.

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Thanks to my wife, Donna, for shrewdly nailing "The War of the Roses" as the perfect Double Feature mate. Seems she's an expert on divorce flicks and, hmmm, she works for high-powered attorneys. ... Gulp.)

Triple Treasure: "The Palm Beach Story" (1942) -- Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee. "Intolerable Cruelty" and the Coens' earlier "The Hudsucker Proxy" (1994) owe a lot in approach to the films of Preston Sturges, Paramount's writer-director wunderkind of the early 1940s, so why not see his superior divorce farce? Manic and lighter in tone, it's the only picture we've mentioned with a "Weenie King!"

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