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  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 33 m

Summary More money flows through the family courts, and into the hands of courthouse insiders, than in all other court systems in America combined - over $50 billion a year and growing. Through extensive research and interviews with the nation's top divorce lawyers, mediators, judges, politicians, litigants and journalists, this documentary unco...

Directed By: Joseph Sorge

Written By: Blake Harjes, James D. Scurlock, Philip Sternberg, Joseph Sorge

  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 33 m

Divorce Corp

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary More money flows through the family courts, and into the hands of courthouse insiders, than in all other court systems in America combined - over $50 billion a year and growing. Through extensive research and interviews with the nation's top divorce lawyers, mediators, judges, politicians, litigants and journalists, this documentary unco...

Directed By: Joseph Sorge

Written By: Blake Harjes, James D. Scurlock, Philip Sternberg, Joseph Sorge

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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17% Negative
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
39
17% Positive
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67% Mixed
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17% Negative
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63
Jan 7, 2014
Divorce Corp is a lot pointed outrage that damning as its seems, feels suspect.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
50
Jan 10, 2014
Divorce Corp is directed and edited at roughly the same level of imagination as a network newsmagazine story: talking head, talking head, talking head, cut to a chart, exterior shot of a courthouse, cut to another chart, talking head.
By Matt Zoller Seitz FULL REVIEW
40
Jan 14, 2014
Divorce Corp. is reasonably cogent when it comes to explaining divorce-court terminology and statistics, even if it comes up somewhat short in terms of actual facts and figures. The filmmakers are far less successful when they start dragging in outrageous examples of official misconduct.
By Justin Chang FULL REVIEW
40
Jan 11, 2014
It relies too heavily on shock value rather than solid facts.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
40
Jan 9, 2014
The tone ranges from wounded to disgusted, but a movie positing this deep a rot in the system needs to be more measured and better made to take hold.
By Nicolas Rapold FULL REVIEW
30
Jan 7, 2014
Despite the film's hyper but insubstantial presentation of its information, there likely is a story here.
By Daphne Howland FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Candor Entertainment
Release Date Jan 10, 2013
Duration 1 h 33 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline Marriage is an institution. Divorce is big business.
Website http://www.divorcecorp.com/
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