Talk:Intolerable Cruelty

One of the plot

One of the plot points of this movie [* * * * S P O I L E R * * * * ] is that a woman can inherit from her divorced husband's estate after he dies. This seems to violate common sense. Does it also violate California law?

Unless I remember wrongly, the reason of this was given: the dead guy had an insurance with the money going to Marilyn, and he forgot to change this after they divorced. So when he died suddenly, the money went to Marilyn. Even Marilyn herself was surprised (this turn of events would foil her plan to get Miles' money through divorce) 218.102.71.210 19:36, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 01:38, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

The Baron Krauss von Espy

Is there any such title in real life? 76.200.153.78 (talk) 17:20, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

style

The plot reads like it's written by a thirteen year old or a retard. Nobody wants unnecessary detail in a movie synopsis; examples like "Rex tries to talk to Marylin, but she sends her rottweilers to chase him off their property" indicate that someone (who I definitely don't want to be stuck next to at a party) thinks a synopsis should attempt to recreate the experience of watching the movie. Is there some sort of wiki tag for "plot details possibly written by Rain man"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.172.99.15 (talk) 12:22, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

We do not allow ad hominem attacks here on Wikipedia. Shame on you. Invertzoo (talk) 22:25, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

Link rot in External Links section

The link to the "official website" no longer exists. Should it be deleted or modified in any way? timetravelercyrus 03:01, 31 December 2010 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by CwanForza (talk • contribs)

Plot edit

The precis said that (1) Marylin got nothing, (2) Marylin contacted Donovan Donaly to help her get revenge, then (3) Miles' boss congratulated him on a job well done. I changed this to a more-logical order, ie., (1) Marylin got nothing, (2) Miles' boss congratulated him on a job well done, then (3) Marylin contacted Donovan Donaly to help her get revenge. I also added a comment about the dream-like nature of Mile's meeting with his boss. Those meetings (of which there were two?) were a prominent departure from the naturalistic tone of the rest of the film. TC 203.122.223.121 (talk) 10:01, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Plot summary

The plot summary was rather long and not easy to follow. I trimmed it down a fair bit, to 555 words, and tried to make it clearer. Invertzoo (talk) 22:17, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

Writers for hire?

Quote: "Intolerable Cruelty is the Coens' first job as writers-for-hire. It was based on an original concept by John Romano, author of The Third Miracle (Agnieszka Holland, 1999) and had been developed into a screenplay by Robert Ramsey and Matthew Stone, who wrote Big Trouble (Barry Sonnenfeld, 2002) and Life (Ted Demme, 1999)."

So, at which point were the Coens hired to do any writing on it? Maikel (talk) 21:36, 3 February 2020 (UTC)