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- 1984
- PG
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 53 m
- 1984
- PG
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 53 m
Summary Alternating between the past and the present, a precocious little girl sues her selfish, career-driven parents for emancipation, surprising them both.
Directed By: Charles Shyer
Written By: Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer
- 1984
- PG
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 53 m
- 1984
- PG
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 53 m
Irreconcilable Differences
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Summary Alternating between the past and the present, a precocious little girl sues her selfish, career-driven parents for emancipation, surprising them both.
Directed By: Charles Shyer
Written By: Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer
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Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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22% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
67% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
11% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
52
22% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
67% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
11% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Irreconcilable Differences is sometimes cute, and is about mean parents, but it also is one of the funnier and more intelligent movies of 1984, and if viewers can work their way past the ungainly title, they're likely to have a surprisingly good time.
Differences would have benefited from a more cerebral lead actor, but O’Neal does a good job of capturing Bogdanovich’s ingratiating passion for cinema and his fatal hubris, and the script scores some clever jabs at the vapid self-absorption of show-biz types.
Directed by Charles Shyer, who brings much imagination to the first half but loses all momentum in the homestretch. [04 Oct 1984, p.27]
Irreconcilable Differences begins strongly as a human comedy about a nine-year-old who decides to take legal action to divorce her parents. Unfortunately, this premise is soon jettisoned for a rather familiar tale of a marriage turned sour as shown step-by-step.
Only the engaging lightness of the two lead performances prevents the film from falling into utter treacliness.
Mr. Shyer has no idea how to frame this material, let alone make it funny. Most of Irreconcilable Differences is terribly flat; the camerawork is dim and unflattering, the sets are bare even when they're supposed to look lived in and some of the dialogue is simply beyond the actors.
If you liked the meat of Kramer vs. Kramer, the reasoning goes, this movie should be the sauce. Too bad. Irreconcilable Differences, the latest comedy by the husband-and-wife writing team that simmered away schmaltzily in Private Benjamin, has its seasonings awry. [28 Sep 1984, p.B1]
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Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Nominations
Young Artist Awards
• 1 Nomination
