While preparing for our first program on Divorce TV about the culture of divorce, I put together the following list of movies about divorce. We also found an interesting law review article entitled "Divorce Goes to the Movies," in University of San Francisco Law Review, Volume 30, Number 4 (1996) by Ira Lurvey and Selise E. Eiseman. Some of our movies came from this article. See the entire article at http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/usf/lurvey30.htm Let us know if you can think of any other movies and any comments you have about them. You can post a comment by following the directions at the right in the green column or at the bottom of this website. WM 2/24/08
AFFAIR WITH A STRANGER (RKO 1953)
ANNA KARENINA (1948)
ANTARES (2004)
AWFUL TRUTH, THE (Columbia 1937) (directed by Leo McCarey)
BASIC INSTINCT 2 (2006)
BLAME IT ON RIO (1984)
BLUME IN LOVE (Warner Brothers 1973) (directed by Paul Mazursky).
BROOD (1979)
BYE BYE LOVE
CELEBRITY (1998)
CHINATOWN (Paramount/Long Road 1985)).
CIMARRON (RKO 1931).
COOLER (2003)
COURTSHIP OF ANDY HARDY, THE (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1942) (directed by George B. Seltz),
DARK WATER (2002)
DAYBREAK (2005)
DECISION OF CHRISTOPHER BLAKE, THE(Warner Brothers 1948).
DESERT HEARTS (Desert Heart Productions 1985) (directed by Donna Deitch).
DINNER WITH FRIENDS
DIVORCE OF LADY X, THE (London Films 1938) (directed by Tim Whelen)
DIVORCE - ITALIAN STYLE (Lux/Vides/Galatea 1962)
DIVORCE AMERICAN STYLE (Columbia/Tandem 1967)
DIVORCE HIS, DIVORCE HERS (1973)
DIVORCEE, THE (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1930) (directed by Robert Z. Leonard, 1930)
DODSWORTH
DODSWORTH (Samuel Goldwyn 1936) (directed by William Wyler, also featured Paul Lukas, David Niven and Mary Astor).
DROWNING ON DRY LAND (1999)
FALLING DOWN (1993)
FOOL'S GOLD (2008)
FOREVER DARLING (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Zanra 1956) (starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, directed by Alexander Hall).
FOUR CHRISTMASES (2008)
GAY DIVORCEE, THE (RKO 1934) (directed by Mark Sandrich, featuring Betty Grable and Edward Everett Horton as the lawyer)
GOOD MOTHER, THE (Warner Brothers/Touchstone/Silver Screen Partners IV 1988) (directed by Leonard Nimoy)
GUARDIAN (2006)
HE MARRIED HIS WIFE (Twentieth Century Fox 1940) (directed by Roy Del Ruth).
HEARTBREAKERS (2001)
HEARTBURN (1986)
HOUSE ARREST (1996)
HOW TO COMMIT MARRIAGE (Cinerama 1969) (directed by Norman Panama). Bob Hope movie with Jane Wyman and Jackie Gleason,
HUSBANDS AND WIVES (1992)
I LOVE YOU AGAIN (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Cosmopolitan 1940) (starring William Powell and Myrna Loy),
IN NAME ONLY (RKO 1939) (directed by John Cromwell), Cary Grant
INTERIORS (1978)
IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES (Lantana/Warner Brothers 1984) (directed by Charles Shyer).
JERSEY GIRL (2004)
JOE SOMEBODY (2001)
KRAMER VS. KRAMER (Columbia 1979) (directed by Robert Benton)
LAWS OF ATTRACTION (2004)
LIAR LIAR
LOVER COME BACK (Universal 1946) (directed by William A. Seiter),
MAN ON FIRE (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1957)
MANHATTAN (United Artists 1979) (directed by Woody Allen).
MARRIAGE CIRCLE (1924)
MARRYING KIND, THE (Columbia 1952) (directed by George Cukor; Judy Holliday and Aldo Ray.
MCLINTOCK! (United Artists 1963)
MEXICAN SPITFIRE OUT WEST (RKO 1940)
MICKI & MAUDE (Columbia/Delphi III/B.E.E. 1984) (directed by Blake Edwards).
MISFITS (1961) WIDESCREEN $7.15
MORGAN! (British Lion/Quintra 1966).
MRS. DOUBTFIRE
NEW DAUGHTER
NINA'S TRAGEDIES (2005)
NO PLACE FOR JENNIFER (ABPC 1949)
NOTHING IN COMMON (1986)
ONE MORE RIVER (Universal 1934) (directed by James Whale and featuring the film debut of Jane Wyatt).
OUR WIFE (Columbia 1941) (directed by John M. Stahl), starred Melvyn Douglas
PAYMENT ON DEMAND (RKO 1951).
PEPPERMINT SODA (Films de L'Alma/Alexandre Films 1977) (directed by Diane Kurys).
PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM (Paramount/APJAC/Rollins-Jaffe 1972) (directed by Herbert Ross).
POWER AND THE GLORY, THE (Twentieth Century Fox 1933).
PROZAC NATION (2003)
QUESTION OF LOVE, A (Blinn/Thorpe Productions in association with Viacom 1978) (directed by Jerry Thorpe, starring Gena Rowlands, Ned Beatty, and Bonnie Bedelia)
RARE BIRDS (2001)
REUNION IN RENO (Universal 1951)
RICH KIDS (Altman/Lion's Gate/United Artists 1979) (directed by Robert M. Young)
RICH ARE ALWAYS WITH US, THE (Warner Brothers 1932) (directed by Alfred E. Green and featuring Bette Davis).
SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE (Cinema 5 1973) (directed by Ingmar Bergman).
SERVING SARA (2002)
SHOOT THE MOON (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1982), an extraordinary movie of raw emotional power directed by Alan Parker, and starring Albert Finney and Diane Keaton.
SHOOT THE MOON (1981)
SILENCE OF THE HEART (1984)
SMASH PALACE (Aardvark Films 1981)
SNOW ANGELS (2008)
SQUID AND THE WHALE, THE (2005)
STEPFORD WIVES (Fadsin/Palomar 1974) (directed by Brian Forbes).
STEPMOM (1998)
STEPMOM
THE FIRST WIVES CLUB
TRAVELLING HUSBANDS (RKO 1931).
TWICE IN A LIFETIME (Yorkin Company 1985) (starring Gene Hackman and directed by Bud Yorkin).
TWO JAKES, THE (Blue Dolphin/Paramount 1990) (directed by and starring Jack Nicholson in
UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN (2003)
UNMARRIED WOMAN
WANT A DIVORCE (Paramount 1940) (directed by Ralph Murphy), Joan Blondell and Dick Powell
WAR OF THE ROSES, THE (Fox/Gracie Films 1989) (directed by Danny De Vito).
WEDDING CRASHERS (2005)
WEDDING CRASHERS