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      Divorce American Style

      Released Jun 21, 1967 1 hr. 49 min. Comedy List
      100% 8 Reviews Tomatometer 59% 1,000+ Ratings Audience Score Suburban couple Richard Harmon (Dick Van Dyke) and his wife, Barbara (Debbie Reynolds), have exhausted their patience in their marriage. Bored and no closer to fixing their problems through counseling, the couple opts to divorce, and the proceeding tug-of-war over children, money and possessions reveals that maintaining their marriage was far easier than ending it. Along the way are attempts for both at new relationships, with the subject of alimony playing a hidden role in matters. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Feb 21 Buy Now

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      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. It’s a difficult fine line to walk for a comedy to make me laugh while conveying some biting social commentary. As a child of divorce it resonated with me. Heartily recommended. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 04/08/24 Full Review Steve D I don't get the appeal of any of these films. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/26/24 Full Review Audience Member The best comedy movie ever made! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Audience Member It's cute, but really dated and doesn't hold up well at all. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member While firmly imbedded in 60 style and culture, the film nevertheless humorously touches on many of the difficult timeless realities created by long term relationships and divorce. A very fun cast. I especially enjoyed the insanity of Debbie Reynolds character being on a date with another divorced man (Tom Bosley later of Happy Days) and attempting to pick up the kids. The convoluted mess of broken families each trying to get their kids results in one child inevitably being left behind--poignant. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member (First and only viewing - 10/13/2013) Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Rated: 3.5/4 Oct 23, 2004 Full Review Richard Schickel LIFE It actually has something truthful to say about the way we live now and says it with a savagery of tone that runs completely counter to the warm, babbling, socially meaningless flow of our comic mainstream. Jan 5, 2022 Full Review Wilfrid Sheed Esquire Magazine Debbie Reynolds and Dick Van Dyke are gruesomely well-cast. Feb 6, 2020 Full Review Joyce Melba Los Angeles Free Press Undoubtedly, the movie's makers sat down to several screenings of Divorce Italian Style with pencils and pads in hand and mapped out American counterpart situations. But the ideas do gain in the American translation. Feb 3, 2020 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: B- Jun 17, 2005 Full Review Lori Hoffman Atlantic City Weekly Trivia alert: Tim Matheson is Debbie's teenage son Rated: 4/5 Apr 8, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis Suburban couple Richard Harmon (Dick Van Dyke) and his wife, Barbara (Debbie Reynolds), have exhausted their patience in their marriage. Bored and no closer to fixing their problems through counseling, the couple opts to divorce, and the proceeding tug-of-war over children, money and possessions reveals that maintaining their marriage was far easier than ending it. Along the way are attempts for both at new relationships, with the subject of alimony playing a hidden role in matters.
      Director
      Bud Yorkin
      Distributor
      Columbia Pictures
      Genre
      Comedy
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Jun 21, 1967, Original
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Mar 1, 2011
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