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George Clooney prides himself to be the best divorce-attorney there is,
bleeding dry whoever he has to no matter how bad the case looks in the
beginning. Catherine Zeta-Jones on the other hands, marries &
divorces only for money, & when she has airtight proof of her
husband's infidelity (a video), she seems to have everything going for
her - well, almost, since Clooney is the attorney of her hubby - thus
she ends up with nothing but a thirst for revenge ... While he seems to
have fallen for her ...
But then she comes to his office with her new love (Billy Bob
Thornton), an oil-millionaire wanting one of Clooney's airtight
prenuptial agreements, leaving her nothing in case of divorce.
Somehow she of course makes Thornton eating up the prenup at the wedding
(literally), making her incredibly rich after the divorce 6 months
later. But cliché has it of course that neither Clooney nor Zeta-Jones
are really happy, both feeling their lives to be empty ... & somehow
they marry in Vegas to escape that emptiness, making Clooney the
happiest man alive for a few hours, before he learns that her previous
marriage to Billy Bob Thornton was just a hoax (& Thornton
just an actor), & she is already in the process of divorcing him,
taking possession of his belongings & keeping him away by
Rottweilers. It is not until after Clooney has hired a killer to
eliminate her, then learns she has inherited a vast amount of money from
a previous marriage & tries to save her (which he actually does in a
most unorthodox way), that they - at a meeting with both their attorneys
to settle the divorce - find to each other again ...
This might sound like some lame romantic Hollywood comedy, but in
fact its a hilarious movie full of unusual plot-twists as only the Coens
could come up with, & a bunch of great characters as support. George
Clooney does actually prove he has a talent for comedy (even though he
is not terribly convincing in the slapstick-scenes), & while
dollface Catherine Zeta-Jones is not much of an actress, her role needed
a dollface more than an actress anyways. But my favourite is the
improbably named Cedric the entertainer as the equally improbably named
private dick-turned-showmaster Gus Petch (catchphrase "I'm gonna
nail your ass !").
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