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Alternating between the past and the present, a precocious little girl sues her selfish, career-driven parents for emancipation, surprising them both.Alternating between the past and the present, a precocious little girl sues her selfish, career-driven parents for emancipation, surprising them both.Alternating between the past and the present, a precocious little girl sues her selfish, career-driven parents for emancipation, surprising them both.
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- 3 nominations
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- GoofsCasey argues with Lucy that she is 9 years old, when Lucy says that she is 8. Although the movie is trying to show how the parents neglect to remember her birthday, given that her date of birth is December 11, 1975, the Casey character would still be 8 at the time the movie was released.
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Casey Brodsky: Mother, you and dad for a long time did not recognize my rights as a human being. You both treated me like chattel. You cannot do with me as you please anymore. We have irreconcilable differences.
- Alternate versionsNBC edited 5 minutes from this film for its 1987 network television premiere.
- SoundtracksYou And Me (We Wanted It All)
Written by Carole Bayer Sager & Peter Allen
Performed by Frank Sinatra
Courtesy of Reprise Records
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Tough on Hollywood
Say what you will about the Shyer-Meyers team ("Private Benjamin", "Father Of The Bride", "Baby Boom"), they know how to craft a movie, often exploiting every ounce of sentiment from their scripts. "Irreconcilable Differences" is somewhat of a departure for them however, a depiction of neurotic movie people, denizens of Hollywood, who have hardly any good points. As soon as the young couple finds success, it's a rich road downhill. The plot set-up has youngster Drew Barrymore trying to emancipate herself away from her famous mom and dad, and the H-Wood high-life is shown as both cause and effect. A terrific sequence involving Sharon Stone in a quasi-musical version of "Gone With The Wind" is satiric comic genius, yet the movie is so hard on its players, so brittle and tough, it's difficult to shake off the bad vibes even as the third act winds down to a sunny conclusion. Perceptively, the screenplay includes many awful (and awfully funny) truths about marriage, money and careers, but the cynical undermining of the picture may put fluff-oriented viewers off. ***1/2 from ****
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- Budget
- $6,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $12,414,210
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $3,076,894
- Sep 30, 1984
- Gross worldwide
- $12,414,210
- Runtime1 hour 53 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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By what name was Irreconcilable Differences (1984) officially released in India in English?
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