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In his review in the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert called the film "a member of that rare species, the Hollywood comedy with teeth in it" and added, "Bud Yorkin has directed with wit and style, and the cast, which seems unlikely on paper, comes across splendidly on the screen . . . The charm of this film is in its low-key approach.
Here is a sly, sympathetic examination of divorce in the subculture of upper-middle class suburbanites — why it is funny and why, in the end, it is not funny at all. Bud Yorkin has directed with wit and style, and the cast, which seems unlikely on paper, comes across splendidly on the screen.
Audience Member This comedy has teeth. Dick Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds were wonderful together with a supporting cast that added to theirs, and the film’s, punch.
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Jun 4, 2021 · Not so much a comedy about a failing marriage as a guide to the American divorce laws, a cynical hard-boiled and frightening shape of things to come in a world where the everyman is represented not by the likes of James Stewart or at a stretch Glenn Ford but Dick Van Dyke. It’s possibly only…
In director Bud Yorkin's marital romantic comedy - it was a cautionary tale about the foibles of marriage, with an Oscar-nominated story and witty, satirical but sanitized screenplay by Robert Kaufman and Norman Lear; it starred Dick Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds as an unhappily-married suburban couple; the serious dark comedy provided a non ...
Feb 27, 2023 · Films of the 1950s and early 60s treat sex and compulsion, but Divorce American Style serves up appetite without humanity, a vision of human beings as infantile, stunted fools. Social and political issues are wielded like heavy clubs, without intelligence or investment.
Divorce American Style: Directed by Bud Yorkin. With Dick Van Dyke, Debbie Reynolds, Jason Robards, Jean Simmons. Dick Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds star as a suburban couple who learn that not even divorce can solve all their problems.
