September 3-6 | Friday-Monday | 1 hour, 45 minutes | Rated R |
Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman play a married couple very much in love — until his career flatlines and hers takes off. While the former architect is playing house-dad after being fired, the chef is being featured in articles and her restaurant is exploding (not literally). And so it is that little resentments begin to pop up between them, and what was once a loving relationship comes apart in flames. The two stars are delightfully, deliciously, and pointedly horrible to each other, with Alison Janney, Kate McKinnon, Andy Samberg, and more famous and talented observers of and participants in their destruction of the marriage.
“The dazzling script is thespian heaven for the stars, Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch, who put a wicked British spin on this remake of Danny DeVito’s 1989 movie The War of the Roses” -Stephen Romei, The Australian
“The Roses scores in the way it has contemporized the story, resetting it with British characters and trading some of that cruelty of the original for a bittersweet edge, balancing sharp humour with a genuine sense of loss.” -Udita Jhunjhunwala, Livemint
“The Roses is funny, but there’s something piercing about it too.” -Stephanie Zacharek, TIME Magazine
“It’s Colman and Cumberbatch at the top of their games, with a lively script and strong direction, that make The Roses so much more than a routine reboot.” -Thelma Adams, AARP Movies for Grownups
“Audiences once adored big adult comedies. Jay Roach’s champagne-fizzy The Roses is a seductive attempt to lure them back into theaters. It’s as bright, mean and ambitious as its lead characters.” -Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times
“Any argument that one doesn’t need a new spin on the Douglas-Turner black comedy is rendered more or less moot by the way [screenwriter Tony McNamara] sets up Cumberbatch and Colman with such gleefully profane, razor-sharp barbs.” -David Fear, Rolling Stone
“the particularly sharp one-liners delivered by an always-excellent Colman and Cumberbatch — the increasingly exhausted foil to his wife’s rapidly-escalating star — are frequently laugh-out-loud funny.” -Lisa Wright, London Evening Standard
“A smart, wild, entertaining mix of droll British humour and glossy Hollywood film-making.” -Caryn James, BBC.com
The Roses comes to The Clyde on Friday, October 3, and plays Friday, Saturday, Sunday, & Monday at 7:30.
